How to make a insert field?

[mesosteros]

I can't manage to put up an insert field. I can use the editor fine on the posts I automatically fill in, but following the example demo I only get a button that automatically inserts an empty post in my collection, instead of opening a "form" like the demo shows. Optionally I'd like to use it in modal form (I have a modal ready but I need to know how to get input fields).

I have the following fields to insert: title - post title image - post thumbnail body - post content timestamp - post date author - user that inserted post

Timestamp and author should be added automatically with the callback, however only timestamp is being added, and as I mentioned above, the rest of the inserted post is empty.

My project is structured to have a /posts route and then a /postsDetails for each post.

Another issue I noticed, is that changes are being saved automatically on my details route when I click outside of the WYSIWYG instead of just saving on the save icon. I'd like to deactivate that.

[JackAdams]

If you can post a sample on meteorpad, I'll take a look and see if I can find what's wrong.

Essentially though, you need to initialize the widget with autoInsert=true and make sure that the object you want to insert is the context surrounding the widget.

In the example app, the button doesn't open a form. It inserts a post into the posts collection and this is immediately displayed via the pub/sub transfer of data to the client and reactive UI. It just looks like a form because pretty much every element in the post is in-line editable. Once you can see that post (that looks like a form), it's already a document in the database and you're just making updates to the existing document from there on in.

[mesosteros]

I don't know if this is right, because I never used meteorpad with my own code but I haven't seen it render other projects the past days as well.

http://meteorpad.com/pad/dEKsSwLs7jkm5tvep/WYSIWYGposts

[JackAdams]

I can't get Meteorpad to show anything, but I can see what's happening with the code. There is nothing in your context for the the newly inserted document (context: {}), so it's going to get no fields except the field in the widget (title) and the timestamp that you're doing via a callback.

Take a look at the full docs and the example code.

[mesosteros]

Yeah Meteorpad is with issues for every project it seems. I'm guessing the issue here is I'm doing this in the list instead of the individual document and thus I truly am creating a vanilla document... but that's how it's gotta be... I guess I can insert the placeholder values into the new document and go from there...

[JackAdams]

That's kind of what the autoInsert=true thing is for ... when you've got something in a list where documents are only really differentiated by one field and just want a one-liner to add a dummy item (document) into the list that the user can edit seamlessly to make it a real document behind the scenes.

Sorry ... that sentence was just one big stream of consciousness.