I am using the package ngx select dropdown in my angular 5 project and wanted to know how I pass an array of objects instead of an array of strings. Currently, If I am doing so it's showing [Object Object] as options in the dropdown.
data=[ {
"id": "ab",
"description": "аҧсуа"
},
{
"id": "aa",
"description": "Afaraf"
},
{
"id": "af",
"description": "Afrikaans"
},
{
"id": "ak",
"description": "Akan"
}]
<ngx-select-dropdown [config]="config" [options]="data" [(ngModel)]="datasel" [multiple]="false">
</ngx-select-dropdown>
/** ngx-select-dropdown config */
public config: any = {
search: true,
height: '260px',
placeholder: 'Select',
customComparator: () => { },
limitTo: 10,
moreText: 'more',
noResultsFound: 'No results found!',
searchPlaceholder: 'Search',
searchOnKey: ''
}
and I want to display description to users in dropdown and on select get id of the selected option.
I have found an answer to the question myself.
config.displaykey
was missing, adding that key according to the requirement made it work.
/** ngx-select-dropdown config */
public config: any = {
displayKey: "description",
search: true,
height: '260px',
placeholder: 'Select',
customComparator: () => { },
limitTo: 10,
moreText: 'more',
noResultsFound: 'No results found!',
searchPlaceholder: 'Search',
searchOnKey: ''
}