Programmatically set value and trigger a search

[Riddler84]

Hello,
I may have a somewhat unusual use case and would like to know if this is even possible. I have tried a few functions and triggers now, but nothing has worked.

I would like to include two select fields, each making AJAX requests to different sources. I would like to enter the search word via another text field and this should then be transferred to the two select fields, which then perform a search if possible without opening the dropdown and automatically select the first result.

Using "setTextboxValue()" I get the value into the input fields of the select fields, but nothing else happens. I also tried to trigger input events using "trigger()", but also without success.

A push in the right direction would be nice^^

[mholt]

I would also like to auto-populate the select with some values from the query string when the page loads. Since the select gets the data remotely, it would have to perform a search and select the top result (I know the top result will be correct because it's searching by item ID).

How can this be done?

Thanks for any help!

[mholt]

I think I figured out a way.

control.addOption({id: 15});
control.addItem(15);

It's close to an example in the docs, but it wasn't very obvious to me. Basically, the argument to addOption is the same type of value you search over. Then you use the "value" of the data you just passed in to select it.

[shifuma]

Could I please get you to give a more complete example of how you're using this? (sorry, I know this is old)

[mholt]

That's literally all I do for this. I have my object, passed into addOption(), and its ID (which is the value used for the form), passed into addItem().

I don't have a complete example setting up the TomSelect that I can just paste in here because I've refactored my code so it can be flexible enough for my growing web app.

[shifuma]

Thanks for the reply. This is my first time using Tom Select...where did you add control.addOption()?

[mholt]

What does your code look like so far?