Can't get select working from AutoForm

help
1

Hi all,

This will sound simple but I can’t get the select options into my drop down form from AutoForm. Here’s my collection and schema:

export const Matchings = new Mongo.Collection('matchings');

Matchings.attachSchema(new SimpleSchema({
title: {
    type: String,
    label: "Title",
    max: 200
    autoform: {
        type: 'select',
        options: function() {
            return [{ label: "2013", value: 2013 }, { label: "2014", value: 2014 }, { label: "2015", value: 2015 }] }
    }
},
....

And template:

<template name="matchingstemplate">
  {{#autoForm collection=Collections.Matchings id="insertBookForm" type="insert"}}
<fieldset>
  <legend>Add a Book</legend>
  {{> afQuickField name='title'}}
</fieldset>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Insert</button>
{{/autoForm}}
</template>

The title does not show the list of options like 2014, 2015, etc. Is there something simple I’m missing? AutoForm works fine for me otherwise.

2

If you’re using AutoForm 6.0 then you’ll need to extend SimpleSchema to support the autoform option by calling:

SimpleSchema.extendOptions(['autoform']);

See https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-autoform/#installation

3

Hi, I just installed that and put in the 2 lines of code, but getting this app error:

import SimpleSchema from 'simpl-schema';
SimpleSchema.extendOptions(['autoform']);

Errors prevented startup:

While building for web.browser:
imports/api/getmatchings.js:15:8: Unexpected token (15:8)

While building for os.windows.x86_32:
imports/api/getmatchings.js:15:8: Unexpected token (15:8)

Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.

4

Actually it looks like I have autoform version 5.8.1. I’m having issues with installing simple schema because of a bcrypt issue (I’m on Windows). Is there an alternate way to have select options without simple schema?

5

I see. In that case the easiest thing to do is to use a helper that returns the options. See https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-autoform/#use-a-helper.

6

try skipping: type: ‘select’

I just use


 mySelect: {
        label: "Ehuru",
        type: String,
        autoform: {
            options: [
                {label: "Home", value: "yes"},
                {label: "Away", value: "maybe"},
                {label: "Paris", value: "Sleeping"}            ]
        }
    },