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Select2 change input name if tag is being submited

So I have the following select2:
productFamilySelect.select2({
tags: true
});
By default the name of the associated select element is product_family_id, so is there a way to change the name of the input to lets say product_family_name, if selected value if one that user entered? This is so, that I could in the backend for sure distinguish between an already existing value, and one that user thought of. Checking by id in the database does not really suit, as this value could actually be numeric in on itself.

After some digging into select2 custom events I found a way:
firstly add createTag callback like so:
productFamilySelect.select2({
tags: true,
createTag: function (params) {
var term = $.trim(params.term);
if (term === '') {
return null;
}
return {
id: term,
text: term,
newTag: true
}
}
});
Then, add the following listener:
productFamilySelect.on('select2:select', function (e) {
if (e.params.data.newTag === true) {
$(this).attr('name', 'product_family_name');
} else {
$(this).attr('name', 'product_family_id');
}
});
Seems a bit hacky, since it is outside the config of the actual select2 config, but well it dos the job :)

Bootstrap-confirmation not respecting options

Just adding the bootstrap-confirmation extension for Bootstrap popover to some buttons on a project. I'm having issues with the options not being respected. I'm trying to get the popups to work as singletons and dismiss when the user clicks outside of them singleton and data-popout options, respectively - both set to true. I'm also not seeing any of my defined callback behavior happening.
I defined the options both in the HTML tags and in a function and neither works. Still getting multiple boxes and they don't dismiss as expected.
My JS is loaded after all other libraries and is in my custom.js file in my footer.
JS is as follows:
$(function() {
$('body').confirmation({
selector: '[data-toggle="confirmation"]',
singleton: true,
popout: true
});
$('.confirmation-callback').confirmation({
onConfirm: function() { alert('confirm') },
onCancel: function() { alert('cancel') }
});
});
An example of the box implemented on a button in my HTML is the following:
<a class="btn btn-danger" data-toggle="confirmation" data-singleton="true" data-popout="true"><em class="fa fa-trash"></em></a>
Any pointers would be appreciated. I even changed the default options in the bootstrap-confirmation.js file itself to what I want and still no luck.

Turns out I needed to rearrange a couple things to get this to work. I've left in the last_clicked_id etc stuff as I needed to add that to get the id value of what I'd just clicked.
// Product removal popup logic
var last_clicked_id = null;
var last_clicked_product = null;
$('.btn.btn-danger.btn-confirm').click(function () {
last_clicked_id = $(this).data("id");
last_clicked_product = $(this).data("product");
});
$('.btn.btn-danger.btn-confirm').confirmation({
singleton: true,
popout: true,
onConfirm: function () {
alert("DEBUG: Delete confirmed for id : " + last_clicked_product);
// TODO: Add AJAX to wipe entry and refresh page
},
onCancel: function () {
alert("DEBUG: Delete canceled for id : " + last_clicked_product);
}
});
I was a step ahead of myself with the callback logic which was not getting executed. Fixed by simply adding it to onConfirm: and onCancel: key values in the .confirmation() function. A bit of a RTFM moment there but this was unfortunately not very clear in the documentation.

Meteor JS: What is the best way to store states for a specific template instance?

I'm learning about Session and reactive data sources in Meteor JS. They work great for setting global UI states. However, I can't figure out how to scope them to a specific instance of a template.
Here's what I'm trying to do
I have multiple contenteditable elements on a page. Below each is an "Edit" button. When the user clicks on the Edit button, it should focus on the element and also show "Save" and "Cancel" buttons.
If the user clicks "Cancel", then any changes are eliminated, and the template instance should rerender with the original content.
Here's the code I have so far
// Helper
Template.form.helpers({
editState: function() {
return Session.get("editState");
}
});
// Rendered
Template.form.rendered = function(e){
var $this = $(this.firstNode);
var formField = this.find('.form-field');
if (Session.get("editState")) formField.focus();
};
// Event map
Template.form.events({
'click .edit-btn' : function (e, template) {
e.preventDefault();
Session.set("editState", "is-editing");
},
'click .cancel-btn' : function (e, template) {
e.preventDefault();
Session.set("editState", null);
},
});
// Template
<template name="form">
<div class="{{editState}}">
<p class="form-field" contenteditable>
{{descriptionText}}
</p>
</div>
Edit
Save
Cancel
</template>
// CSS
.edit-btn
.cancel-btn,
.save-btn {
display: inline-block;
}
.cancel-btn,
.save-btn {
display: none;
}
.is-editing .cancel-btn,
.is-editing .save-btn {
display: inline-block;
}
The problem
If I have more than one instance of the Form template, then .form-field gets focused for each one, instead of just the one being edited. How do I make so that only the one being edited gets focused?

You can render a template with data, which is basically just an object passed to it when inserted in to a page.
The data could simply be the key to use in the Session for editState.
eg, render the template with Template.form({editStateKey:'editState-topForm'})
you could make a handlebars helper eg,
Handlebars.registerHelper('formWithOptions',
function(editStateKey){
return Template.form({editStateKey:editStateKey})
});
then insert it in your template with
{{{formWithOptions 'editState-topForm'}}} (note the triple {, })
Next, change references from Session.x('editState') to Session.x(this.editStateKey)/ Session.x(this.data.editStateKey)
Template.form.helpers({
editState: function() {
return Session.get(this.editStateKey);
}
});
// Rendered
Template.form.rendered = function(e){
var $this = $(this.firstNode);
var formField = this.find('.form-field');
if (Session.get(this.data.editStateKey)) formField.focus();
};
// Event map
Template.form.events({
'click .edit-btn' : function (e, template) {
e.preventDefault();
Session.set(this.editStateKey, "is-editing");
},
'click .cancel-btn' : function (e, template) {
e.preventDefault();
Session.set(this.editStateKey, null);
},
});
Note: if you are using iron-router it has additional api's for passing data to templates.
Note2: In meteor 1.0 there is supposed to be better support for writing your own widgets. Which should allow better control over this sort of thing.

As a matter of policy I avoid Session in almost all cases. I feel their global scope leads to bad habits and lack of good discipline regarding separation-of-concerns as your application grows. Also because of their global scope, Session can lead to trouble when rendering multiple instances of a template. For those reasons I feel other approaches are more scalable.
Alternative approaches
1 addClass/removeClass
Instead of setting a state then reacting to it elsewhere, can you perform the needed action directly. Here classes display and hide blocks as needed:
'click .js-edit-action': function(event, t) {
var $this = $(event.currentTarget),
container = $this.parents('.phenom-comment');
// open and focus
container.addClass('editing');
container.find('textarea').focus();
},
'click .js-confirm-delete-action': function(event, t) {
CardComments.remove(this._id);
},
2 ReactiveVar scoped to template instance
if (Meteor.isClient) {
Template.hello.created = function () {
// counter starts at 0
this.counter = new ReactiveVar(0);
};
Template.hello.helpers({
counter: function () {
return Template.instance().counter.get();
}
});
Template.hello.events({
'click button': function (event, template) {
// increment the counter when button is clicked
template.counter.set(template.counter.get() + 1);
}
});
}
http://meteorcapture.com/a-look-at-local-template-state/
3 Iron-Router's state variables
Get
Router.route('/posts/:_id', {name: 'post'});
PostController = RouteController.extend({
action: function () {
// set the reactive state variable "postId" with a value
// of the id from our url
this.state.set('postId', this.params._id);
this.render();
}
});
Set
Template.Post.helpers({
postId: function () {
var controller = Iron.controller();
// reactively return the value of postId
return controller.state.get('postId');
}
});
https://github.com/iron-meteor/iron-router/blob/devel/Guide.md#setting-reactive-state-variables
4 Collection data
Another approach is to simply state by updating data in your collection. Sometimes this makes perfect sense.
5 update the data context
Session is often the worse choice in my opinion. Also I don't personally use #3 as I feel like being less tied to iron-router is better incase we ever want to switch to another router package such as "Flow".

How to implement a delegator using ExtJS 4.1

I am new to javascript, but I've been hired to give maintenance to an application which is developed in Sencha ExtJS 4. One of the modules I've been asked to modify, is of a component in which I show a tooltip whenever I hover over it. This component can be present in more than one view, it is something like "Customer Details" that is present in many screens of the application. If I hover over this data, I need to show a tooltip, this tooltip shows information retrieved by server (REST). I implemented some logic, but this logic involves the use of many listeners in each of the components that will show the information. For instance, I added a listener in all of the views that requires showing the tooltip:
this.listeners = {
boxready: {
fn: this.onAfterRender,
scope: this
}
And I had to implement this method for every view as well, which is a mess and, for sure, a very bad practice:
/**
* This method is executed after panels are rendered in order to set ToolTip listeners on
* users and workgroups.
*
* #param {Object} scope
*/
onAfterRender: function(scope) {
Ext.defer(function() {
var usElements = Ext.get(Ext.query('.usertooltip', scope.el.dom));
usElements.on({
click: function (e) {
var item = Ext.get(e.target);
if (Ext.isEmpty(item.dom.innerHTML.trim())) {
item.removeCls('usertooltip');
return;
}
if (item.hasCls('usertooltip-clicked')) {
return;
}
item.addCls('usertooltip-clicked');
var user = item.getAttribute('data-info');
UserInfo.getUserInfo(user, false);
if (UserInfo.errorResponse) {
UserInfo.getWGroupInfo(user);
}
UserInfo.displayToolTip(this);
}
});
var wgElements = Ext.get(Ext.query('.wgtooltip', scope.el.dom));
wgElements.on({
click : function (e) {
var item = Ext.get(e.target);
if (Ext.isEmpty(item.dom.innerHTML.trim())) {
item.removeCls('wgtooltip');
return;
}
if (item.hasCls('wgtooltip-clicked')) {
return;
}
item.addCls('wgtooltip-clicked');
var wgroup = item.getattribute('data-info');
WGroupInfo.getWGroupInfo(wgroup, false);
if (UserInfo.errorResponse) {
WGroupInfo.getUserInfo(wgroup);
}
WGroupInfo.displayToolTip(this);
}
});
}, 1000, this);
},
What I do is simply detect if the item is selected based a css class, if so, I handle the events and proceed with logic. But I've been doing some research and I think this can be achieved using a "delegator" but I am not sure how to implement this for my scenario.
What I've been thinking of, so far is to create a "js" class which have a method like an "observer" and whenever listen to someone asking for this tooltip functionality, delegate it to the executing object. But since I am new to javascript and this Sencha ExtJS, my tries have been frustrated. If someone can help me I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.

The best way would be to declare a plugin:
Ext.define('TipPlugin', {
alias: 'plugin.tip',
init: function(c) {
c.on('boxready', this.onBoxReady, this);
},
onBoxReady: function(c) {
var els = this.el.select('.usertooltip');
// Do stuff!
}
});
var c = new Ext.Component({
plugins: ['tip']
});

Redefining a jQuery dialog button

In our application we use a general function to create jQuery dialogs which contain module-specific content. The custom dialog consists of 3 buttons (Cancel, Save, Apply). Apply does the same as Save but also closes the dialog.
Many modules are still using a custom post instead of an ajax-post. For this reason I'm looking to overwrite/redefine the buttons which are on a specific dialog.
So far I've got the buttons, but I'm unable to do something with them. Is it possible to get the buttons from a dialog (yes, I know) but apply a different function to them?
My code so far:
function OverrideDialogButtonCallbacks(sDialogInstance) {
oButtons = $( '#dialog' ).dialog( 'option', 'buttons' );
console.log(oButtons); // logs the buttons correctly
if(sDialogInstance == 'TestInstance') {
oButtons.Save = function() {
alert('A new callback has been assigned.');
// code for ajax-post will come here.
}
}
}

$('#dialog').dialog({
'buttons' : {
'Save' : {
id:"btn-save", // provide the id, if you want to apply a callback based on id selector
click: function() {
//
},
},
}
});
Did you try this? to override button's callback based on the need.

No need to re-assign at all. Try this.
function OverrideDialogButtonCallbacks(dialogSelector) {
var button = $(dialogSelector + " ~ .ui-dialog-buttonpane")
.find("button:contains('Save')");
button.unbind("click").on("click", function() {
alert("save overriden!");
});
}
Call it like OverrideDialogButtonCallbacks("#dialog");
Working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/codovations/yzfVT/

You can get the buttons using $(..).dialog('option', 'buttons'). This returns an array of objects that you can then rewire by searching through them and adjusting the click event:
// Rewire the callback for the first button
var buttons = $('#dialog').dialog('option', 'buttons');
buttons[0].click = function() { alert('Click rewired!'); };
See this fiddle for an example: http://jsfiddle.net/z4TTH/2/
If necessary, you can check the text of the button using button[i].text.
UPDATE:
The buttons option can be one of two forms, one is an array as described above, the other is an object where each property is the name of the button. To rewire the click event in this instance it's necessary to update the buttons option in the dialog:
// Rewire the callback for the OK button
var buttons = $('#dialog').dialog('option', 'buttons');
buttons.Ok = function() { alert('Click rewired!'); };
$('#dialog').dialog('option', 'buttons', buttons);
See this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/z4TTH/3/

Can you try binding your new function code with Click event of Save?
if(sDialogInstance == 'TestInstance') {
$('#'+savebtn_id).click(function() {
alert('A new callback has been assigned.');
// code for ajax-post will come here.
});
}