How to set a value for a selectize.js input?

Question

I have a form from which I would like to copy some default values into the inputs. The form inputs are using the selectize.js plugin. I would like to set some of the form

Answer 1

I was having this same issue - I am using Selectize with Rails and wanted to Selectize an association field - I wanted the name of the associated record to show up in the dropdown, but I needed the value of each option to be the id of the record, since Rails uses the value to set associations.

I solved this by setting a coffeescript var of @valueAttr to the id of each object and a var of @dataAttr to the name of the record. Then I went through each option and set:

 opts.labelField = @dataAttr
 opts.valueField = @valueAttr

It helps to see the full diff: https://github.com/18F/C2/pull/912/files