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jQuery UI Autocomplete - Trigger an event without select

I have this autocomplete in a input box and all is working fine:
$(function() {
$("#customer").autocomplete({
minLength: 1,
source: function(request, response) {
$.getJSON('url.php', { 'string': request.term }, function(data) {
if(data) {
var clienti = data.error ? [] : $.map(data, function(customer) {
return {
label: customer.fullname,
array: customer
};
});
response(clienti);
}
});
},
select: function( event, ui ) {
$("#description").val(ui.item.array.description);
}
})
});
I want to call (trigger) the same autocomplete function ON LOADING another page, but WITHOUT select an item! (simply by pass data to Ajax).
If i use $("#customer").autocomplete("search") all is working BUT i need to select the ITEM to view the $("#description").val !
$("#customer").val is loaded by PHP on page load.
How could i do?
Thank you.

Jquery Context Menu ajax fetch menu items

I have a jquery context menu on my landing page where I have hardcode menu items. Now I want to get the menu items from server. Basically the idea is to show file names in a specified directory in the context menu list and open that file when user clicks it...
This is so far I have reached..
***UPDATE***
C# code
[HttpPost]
public JsonResult GetHelpFiles()
{
List<Manuals> manuals = null;
var filesPath = Server.MapPath(#"\HelpManuals");
var standardPath = new DirectoryInfo(filesPath);
if (standardPath.GetFiles().Any())
{
manuals = standardPath.GetFiles().Select(x => new Manuals
{
Name = GetFileNamewithoutExtension(x.Name),
Path = x.Name
}).ToList();
}
return Json(manuals, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
private string GetFileNamewithoutExtension(string filename)
{
var extension = Path.GetExtension(filename);
return filename.Substring(0, filename.Length - extension.Length);
}
JavaScript Code
$.post("/Home/GetHelpFiles", function (data) {
$.contextMenu({
selector: '#helpIcon',
trigger: 'hover',
delay: 300,
build: function($trigger, e) {
var options = {
callback: function(key) {
window.open("/HelpManuals/" + key);
},
items: {}
};
$.each(data, function (item, index) {
console.log("display name:" + index.Name);
console.log("File Path:" + index.Path);
options.items[item.Value] = {
name: index.Name,
key: index.Path
}
});
}
});
});
Thanks to Matt. Now, the build function gets fire on hover.. but im getting illegal invocation... and when iterating through json result, index.Name and this.Name gives correct result. But item.Name doesn't give anything..

to add items to the context menu dynamically you need to make a couple changes
$.contextMenu({
selector: '#helpIcon',
trigger: 'hover',
delay: 300,
build: function($trigger, e){
var options = {
callback: function (key) {
var manual;
if (key == "adminComp") {
manual = "AdminCompanion.pdf";
} else {
manual = "TeacherCompanion.pdf";
}
window.open("/HelpManuals/" + manual);
},
items: {}
}
//how to populate from model
#foreach(var temp in Model.FileList){
<text>
options.items[temp.Value] = {
name: temp.Name,
icon: 'open'
}
</text>
}
//should be able to do an ajax call here but I believe this will be called
//every time the context is triggered which may cause performance issues
$.ajax({
url: '#Url.Action("Action", "Controller")',
type: 'get',
cache: false,
async: true,
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
success: function (_result) {
if (_result.Success) {
$.each(_result, function(item, index){
options.items[item.Value] = {
name: item.Name,
icon: 'open'
}
});
}
});
return options;
}
});
so you use build and inside of that define options and put your callback in there. The items defined in there is empty and is populated in the build dynamically. We build our list off of what is passed through the model but I believe you can put the ajax call in the build like I have shown above. Hopefully this will get you on the right track at least.

I solved this problem the following way.
On a user-triggered right-click I return false in the build-function. This will prevent the context-menu from opening. Instead of opeing the context-menu I start an ajax-call to the server to get the contextMenu-entries.
When the ajax-call finishes successfully I create the items and save the items on the $trigger in a data-property.
After saving the menuItems in the data-property I open the context-menu manually.
When the build-function is executed again, I get the items from the data-property.
$.contextMenu({
build: function ($trigger, e)
{
// check if the menu-items have been saved in the previous call
if ($trigger.data("contextMenuItems") != null)
{
// get options from $trigger
var options = $trigger.data("contextMenuItems");
// clear $trigger.data("contextMenuItems"),
// so that menuitems are gotten next time user does a rightclick
// from the server again.
$trigger.data("contextMenuItems", null);
return options;
}
else
{
var options = {
callback: function (key)
{
alert(key);
},
items: {}
};
$.ajax({
url: "GetMenuItemsFromServer",
success: function (response, status, xhr)
{
// for each menu-item returned from the server
for (var i = 0; i < response.length; i++)
{
var ri = response[i];
// save the menu-item from the server in the options.items object
options.items[ri.id] = ri;
}
// save the options on the table-row;
$trigger.data("contextMenuItems", options);
// open the context-menu (reopen)
$trigger.contextMenu();
},
error: function (response, status, xhr)
{
if (xhr instanceof Error)
{
alert(xhr);
}
else
{
alert($($.parseHTML(response.responseText)).find("h2").text());
}
}
});
// This return false here is important
return false;
}
});

I have finally found a better solution after reading jquery context menu documentation, thoroughly..
C# CODE
public JsonResult GetHelpFiles()
{
List<Manuals> manuals = null;
var filesPath = Server.MapPath(#"\HelpManuals");
var standardPath = new DirectoryInfo(filesPath);
if (standardPath.GetFiles().Any())
{
manuals = standardPath.GetFiles().Select(x => new Manuals
{
Name = GetFileNamewithoutExtension(x.Name),
Path = x.Name
}).ToList();
}
return Json(manuals, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
HTML 5
<div id="dynamicMenu">
<menu id="html5menu" type="context" style="display: none"></menu>
</div>
JavaScript Code
$.post("/Home/GetHelpFiles", function (data) {
$.each(data, function (index, item) {
var e = '<command label="' + item.Name + '" id ="' + item.Path + '"></command>';
$("#html5menu").append(e);
});
$.contextMenu({
selector: '#helpIcon',
trigger: 'hover',
delay: 300,
items: $.contextMenu.fromMenu($('#html5menu'))
});
});
$("#dynamicMenu").on("click", "menu command", function () {
var link = $(this).attr('id');
window.open("/HelpManuals/" + link);
});

Here's my solution using deferred, important to know that this feature is supported for sub-menus only
$(function () {
$.contextMenu({
selector: '.SomeClass',
build: function ($trigger, e) {
var options = {
callback: function (key, options) {
// some call back
},
items: JSON.parse($trigger.attr('data-storage')) //this is initial static menu from HTML attribute you can use any static menu here
};
options.items['Reservations'] = {
name: $trigger.attr('data-reservations'),
icon: "checkmark",
items: loadItems($trigger) // this is AJAX loaded submenu
};
return options;
}
});
});
// Now this function loads submenu items in my case server responds with 'Reservations' object
var loadItems = function ($trigger) {
var dfd = jQuery.Deferred();
$.ajax({
type: "post",
url: "/ajax.php",
cache: false,
data: {
// request parameters are not importaint here use whatever you need to get data from your server
},
success: function (data) {
dfd.resolve(data.Reservations);
}
});
return dfd.promise();
};

Select2 limit number of tags

Is there a way to limit the number of tags a user can add to an input field using Select2?
I have:
$('#tags').select2({
containerCssClass: 'supplierTags',
placeholder: "Usual suppliers...",
minimumInputLength: 2,
multiple: true,
tokenSeparators: [",", " "],
placeholder: 'Usual suppliers...',
createSearchChoice: function(term, data) {
if ($(data).filter(function() {
return this.name.localeCompare(term) === 0;
}).length === 0) {
return {id: 0, name: term};
}
},
id: function(e) {
return e.id + ":" + e.name;
},
ajax: {
url: ROOT + 'Call',
dataType: 'json',
type: 'POST',
data: function(term, page) {
return {
call: 'Helpers->tagsHelper',
q: term
};
},
results: function(data, page) {
return {
results: data.tags
};
}
},
formatResult: formatResult,
formatSelection: formatSelection,
initSelection: function(element, callback) {
var data = [];
$(element.val().split(",")).each(function(i) {
var item = this.split(':');
data.push({
id: item[0],
name: item[1]
});
});
callback(data);
}
});
It would be great if there could be/is a simple parameter like limit: 5 and a callback to fire when the limit is reached.

Sure, with maximumSelectionLength like so:
$("#tags").select2({
maximumSelectionLength: 3
});
Maximum Selection Length
Select2 allows the developer to limit the number of items that can be
selected in a multi-select control.
http://ivaynberg.github.io/select2/
It has no native callback, but you can pass a function to formatSelectionTooBig like this:
$(function () {
$("#tags").select2({
maximumSelectionLength: 3,
formatSelectionTooBig: function (limit) {
// Callback
return 'Too many selected items';
}
});
});
http://jsfiddle.net/U98V7/
Or you could extend formatSelectionTooBig like this:
$(function () {
$.extend($.fn.select2.defaults, {
formatSelectionTooBig: function (limit) {
// Callback
return 'Too many selected items';
}
});
$("#tags").select2({
maximumSelectionLength: 3
});
});
Edit
Replaced maximumSelectionSize with the updated maximumSelectionLength. Thanks #DrewKennedy!

method 1
$("#tags").select2({
maximumSelectionLength: 3
});
method 2
<select data-maximum-selection-length="3" ></select>
list of all available options https://select2.org/configuration/options-api

The accepted answer doesn't mention that the maximumSelectionLength statement should be inside the document.ready function. So for anyone who is having the same trouble I did, here is the code that worked for me.
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#id").select2({
maximumSelectionLength: 3
});
});

$("#keywords").select2({
tags : true,
width :'100%',
tokenSeparators: [','],
maximumSelectionLength: 5,
matcher : function(term,res){
return false;
},
"language": {
'noResults': function(){
return "Type keywords separated by commas";
}
}
}).on("change",function(e){
if($(this).val().length>5){
$(this).val($(this).val().slice(0,5));
}
});
Try like this. It'll short up to 5 keywords.

This is not working for me, I am getting query function not defined for Select2, so here is another workaround.
var onlyOne=false;
$("selector").select2({
maximumSelectionSize:function(){
if(onlyOne==true)
return 1;
else
return 5;
}
});
This setting can be defined as function and it's called every time you start searching something.
Important thing is that you have something defined outside this select2 closure so you can check it (access it). In this case you could somewhere in your program change value of onlyOne and of course this returned limit can also be dynamical.

This is working for me.
$("#category_ids").select2({ maximumSelectionLength: 3 });

Send the Get Request to action method and the Map the class properties to drop down id and text property
$("#DropDownId").select2({
minimumInputLength: 3,
maximumSelectionLength: 10,
tags: [],
ajax: {
url: "#Url.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName")",
type: "get",
dataType: 'json',
delay: 250,
data: function (params) {
return {
Title: params.term // search term
};
},
processResults: function (response) {
return {
results: $.map(response, function (item) {
return {
text: item.Title,
id: item.Id
}
})
};
}
}
});
Action Method
[HttpGet]
public JsonResult ActionName(string Title)
{
ClassName obj= new ClassName ();
obj.Title = "PMPAK";
obj.Id= -1;
obj.Add(nibafInstitute);
return Json(obj, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
public class ClassName
{
public int Id{ get; set; }
public string Title { get; set; }
}

Select2 - avoiding duplicates tags

How can I avoiding duplicates tags in Select2 input?
When I type tag name on the keyboard string is added to input field, but when I select tag from dropdown list (results from the database) the id is added to input (look at console.log on screenshot). So I can select tag from list and add the same tag from keyboard.
Moreover, I need the text of tags, not id from dropdown list while submit a form.
Full resolution
HTML:
<input type="hidden" id="categories" name="categories" style="width:100%" value="${categories}">
JS:
$("#categories").select2({
tags: true,
tokenSeparators: [","],
placeholder: "Dodaj",
multiple: false,
minimumInputLength: 3,
maximumInputLength: 50,
maximumSelectionSize: 20,
ajax: {
quietMillis: 150,
url: '${request.route_url("select2")}',
dataType: 'json',
data: function (term, page) {
return {
q: term,
page_limit: 10,
page: page,
};
},
results: function (data, page) {
var more = (page * 10) < data.total;
return {results: data.categories, more: more};
}
},
initSelection: function (element, callback) {
var data = [];
$(element.val().split(",")).each(function () {
data.push({id: this, text: this});
});
callback(data);
},
createSearchChoice: function (term) {
return { id: term, text: term };
},
}).change(function (e) {
if (e.added) {
console.log($("#categories").val())
console.log(e)
}
});

Have same problem, but I figured it out to find a way around.
I'm getting text and ids, but on the server side I'm creating from given id new objects, which are well read.
$tagsArray = explode(',', $tagNames); // it contains of my input select2 value (with ids)
foreach ($tagsArray as $tag)
{
if (is_numeric($tag))
{
$tags->append(TagQuery::create()->filterById($tag)->findOneOrCreate());
}
elseif (!empty($tag))
{
$tags->append(TagQuery::create()->filterByName($tag)->findOneOrCreate());
}
}
Hope it helps.

at first use select 2
and then do this:
$("select").change(function() { var tr = $(this).closest("tr");
tr.find("select option").attr("disabled",""); //enable everything
//collect the values from selected;
var arr = $.map
(
tr.find("select option:selected"), function(n)
{
return n.value;
}
);
//disable elements
tr.find("select option").filter(function()
{
return $.inArray($(this).val(),arr)>-1; //if value is in the array of selected values
}).attr("disabled","disabled"); });

How do I create a delete button on every row in slickgrid with confirmation?

As the title said it, how do I do it?, I am using this button created by jiri:
How do i create a delete button on every row using the SlickGrid plugin?
when I add an if(confirmation(msg)) inside the function it repeats me the msg ALOT
maybe its because i refresh-ajax the table with each modification.
ask me if you need more info, I am still noob here in stackoverflow :P
(also if there is someway to "kill" the function)
here is the button, iam using(link) i added the idBorrada to check whetever the id was already deleted and dont try to delete it twice, also here is a confirm, but when i touch cancel it asks me again.
$('.del').live('click', function(){
var me = $(this), id = me.attr('id');
//assuming you have used a dataView to create your grid
//also assuming that its variable name is called 'dataView'
//use the following code to get the item to be deleted from it
if(idBorrada != id && confirm("¿Seguro desea eleminarlo?")){
dataView.deleteItem(id);
Wicket.Ajax.ajax({"u":"${url}","c":"${gridId}","ep":{'borrar':JSON.stringify(id, null, 2)}});
//This is possible because in the formatter we have assigned the row id itself as the button id;
//now assuming your grid is called 'grid'
//TODO
grid.invalidate();
idBorrada= id;
}
else{
};
});
and i call the entire function again.
hope that help, sorry for the grammar its not my native language

Follow these steps,
Add a delete link for each row with of the columns object as follows,
var columns =
{ id: "Type", name: "Application Type", field: "ApplicationType", width: 100, cssClass: "cell-title", editor: Slick.Editors.Text, validator: requiredFieldValidator, sortable: true },
{ id: "delete", name: "Action", width: 40, cssClass: "cell-title", formatter: Slick.Formatters.Link }
];
Add a Link Formatter inside slick.formatters.js as follows,
"Formatters": {
"PercentComplete": PercentCompleteFormatter,
"YesNo": YesNoFormatter,
"Link": LinkFormatter
}
function LinkFormatter(row, cell, value, columnDef, dataContext) {
return "<a style='color:#4996D0; text-decoration:none;cursor:pointer' onclick='DeleteData(" + dataContext.Id + ", " + row + ")'>Delete</a>";
}
Add the following delete function in javascript
function DeleteData(id, rowId) {
var result = confirm("Are you sure you want to permenantly delete this record!");
if (result == true) {
if (id) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "DeleteURL",
data: { id: id },
dataType: "text",
success: function () {
},
error: function () {
}
});
}
dataView.deleteItem(id);
dataView.refresh();}
}