Setting initial values on load with Select2 with Ajax

Question

I have select2 controls set up with Ajax (have both single and multiple). I'm trying to have some values on page load but I'm not able to get this to work however. My code for select2 is given below:

function AjaxCombo(element, url, multival ){  // multival = true or false
  multival = multival || false;
  $(element).select2({
   minimumInputLength: 2,
   multiple: multival,
   separator: '|',
   ajax: {
     url: url,
     dataType: 'json',
     data: function (term, page) {
        var targetname = $(this).attr('name');
        var target = targetname.slice(targetname.indexOf("[")+1, targetname.indexOf("]"));
       return {
         targettype: "search",
         target: target,
         search: term
       };
     },
     results: function (data, page) {
       return { results: data };
     }
   }
 });
}
AjaxCombo(".ajaxselect", "includes/linkedcontrol.php", false);
AjaxCombo(".ajaxmultiselect", "includes/linkedcontrol.php", true);

The Ajax combo works fine, am having trouble only with the initial values load. I tried this code below but couldn't get it to work:

initSelection : function (element, callback) {
    var elementText = $(element).attr('data-initvalue');
    callback(elementText);
}

My HTML from php is returned as below :

<input name='header[country]' class='ajaxselect'  data-initvalue='[{"id":"IN","name":"India"}]' data-placeholder='Select Country' value='' />

I see that values are populated from php, only my jquery is having issues. My values in the control show up as US | United States of America. I guess I have edited the select2 source for getting this format as default without using format option.

Can anyone please help me populate the default values? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: This question pertains to Select2 version <4.0. This option is removed from v4.0 and is much simpler now.

Answer 1

The function which you are specifying as initSelection is called with the initial value as argument. So if value is empty, the function is not called.
When you specifiy value='[{"id":"IN","name":"India"}]' instead of data-initvalue the function gets called and the selection can get initialized.

Answer 2

Maybe this work for you!! This works for me...

initSelection: function (element, callback) {

            callback({ id: 1, text: 'Text' });
}

Check very well that code is correctly spelled, my issue was in the initSelection, I had initselection

Answer 3

Updated to new version:

Try this solution from here http://jsfiddle.net/EE9RG/430/

$('#sel2').select2({
multiple:true,
ajax:{}}).select2({"data": 
     [{"id":"2127","text":"Henry Ford"},{"id":"2199","text":"Tom Phillips"}]});

Answer 4

Ravi, for 4.0.1-rc.1:

1. Add all <option> elements inside <select>.
2. call $element.val(yourarray).trigger("change"); after select2 init function.

HTML:

<select name="Tags" id="Tags" class="form-control input-lg select2" multiple="multiple">
       <option value="1">tag 1</option>
       <option value="2">tag 2</option>
       <option value="3">tag 3</option>
 </select>

JS:

var $tagsControl = $("#Tags").select2({
        ajax: {
            url: '/Tags/Search',
            dataType: 'json',
            delay: 250,
            results: function (data) {
                return {
                    results: $.map(data, function (item) {
                        return {
                            text: item.text,
                            id: item.id
                        }
                    })
                };
            },
            cache: false
        },
        minimumInputLength: 2,
        maximumSelectionLength: 6
    });

    var data = [];
    var tags = $("#Tags option").each(function () {
        data.push($(this).val());
    });
    $tagsControl.val(data).trigger("change");

This issue was reported but it still opened. https://github.com/select2/select2/issues/3116#issuecomment-146568753

Answer 5

A very weird way for passing data. I prefer to get a JSON string/object from server and then assign values and stuff.

Anyway, when you do this var elementText = $(element).attr('data-initvalue'); you're getting this [{"id":"IN","name":"India"}]. That result you must PARSE it as suggested above so you can get the real vales for id ("IN") and name("India"). Now there are two scenarios, multi-select & single-value Select2.

Single Values:

$(element).select2({
    initSelection : function (element, callback) {
        var data = {id: "IN", text: "INDIA"};
        callback(data);
    }//Then the rest of your configurations (e.g.: ajax, allowClear, etc.)
});

Multi-Select

$("#tags").select2({
    initSelection : function (element, callback) {
        var countryId = "IN"; //Your values that somehow you parsed them
        var countryText = "INDIA";

        var data = [];//Array

        data.push({id: countryId, text: countryText});//Push values to data array


        callback(data); //Fill'em
    }
});

NOW HERE'S THE TRICK! Like belov91 suggested, you MUST put this...

$(element).select2("val", []);

Even if it's a single or multi-valued Select2. On the other hand remember that you can't assign the Select2 ajax function to a <select> tag, it must be an <input>.

Hope that helped you (or someone).

Bye.

Answer 6

I`ve added

initSelection: function (element, callback) {

      callback({ id: 1, text: 'Text' });
}

BUT also

.select2('val', []);

at the end.

This solved my issue.

Answer 7

var elem = $("#container").find("[name=elemMutliOption]");
for (var i = 0; i < arrDynamicList.length; i++)
{
   elem.find("option[value=" + arrDynamicList[i] + "]").attr("selected", "selected");
}
elem.select2().trigger("change");

This will work for people who are using the same view for multiple section in the page, with that being said it will work the same way for auto-setting defaults in your page OR better a EDIT page.

The "FOR" goes through the array that has existing options already loaded in the DOM.

Answer 8

Change the value after the page loads

$('#data').val('').change();

Answer 9

you can use the following

$(element).select2("data",[ { id: result.id, text: "جابر احمد الصباح" },
    { id: 2, text: "خليل محمد خليل" }]);

Answer 10

In my case the problem was rendering the output.. So I used the default text if the ajax data is not present yet.

  templateSelection: function(data) {
    return data.name || data.element.innerText;
  }

Answer 11

Late :( but I think this will solve your problem.

 $("#controlId").val(SampleData [0].id).trigger("change");

After the data binding

 $("#controlId").select2({
        placeholder:"Select somthing",
        data: SampleData // data from ajax controll
    });
    $("#controlId").val(SampleData[0].id).trigger("change");