How to add radio buttons, checkboxes?

[Vishi]

HI
Could someone help me with adding radiobuttons/checkboxes. I believe it would require custom helpers, but I cant understand how to add it. Could someone help please?
Thanks

[Matthew Eernisse]

You need to use the `contentTag` helper:

http://geddyjs.org/reference#helpers_content_tag

The 'type' attribute will default to 'text', but you can use 'radio' or 'checkbox'.

[Vishi]

Hi Matthew
Thanks for your post, I am able to create radiobuttons/checkboxes in the views. However the data does not get captured in the datastore.

    <%- contentTag('input', thing.description, {type:'radio', class:'span6', name:'radio1', id:'option1', value:'option1'}) %>
    <%- contentTag('input', thing.description, {type:'radio', class:'span6', name:'radio1', id:'option2', value:'option2'}) %>

In the _datastore.json there is no description even though i select one of the radio buttons. I would have expected to see "description": "option1" in the datastore. Could you help me get this working please?
{"createdAt":"2014-11-03T12:54:22.011Z","title":"asd","date":"2014-11-12T00:00:00.000Z","id":"E302A23A-225F-46C5-B28F-5FD127812482","type":"Thing"}

Regards
-Vishi

[Vishi]

Hi,

Note that the server log shows the POST request capturing the radio button correctly. But for some reason it does not make it way to the datastore. Any clue, anyone ?

 { method: 'POST',   controller: 'Things',   action: 'create',   title: 'asd',   radio1: 'option2',   date: '12/10/14' }

[Vishi]

I got the answer with ton of help on irc

I need to match the name property of the radio buttons with the model property name. So this works

    <%- contentTag('input', thing.description, {type:'radio', class:'span6', name:'description', id:'option1', value:'option1'}) %>

    <%- contentTag('input', thing.description, {type:'radio', class:'span6', name:'description', id:'option2', value:'option2'}) %>

Thanks everyone