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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/fuzzybabybunny/microscope-orionjs
- Owner: fuzzybabybunny
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-07-24T04:10:27.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-03-26T13:36:28.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-02T18:43:17.180Z (3 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 302 KB
- Stars: 19
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 8
- Open Issues: 13
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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**Table of Contents**
- [Meteor OrionJS with Microscope Tutorial](#meteor-orionjs-with-microscope-tutorial)
- [Purpose](#purpose)
- [Cloning Microscope](#cloning-microscope)
- [Download OrionJS](#download-orionjs)
- [Initial Impressions](#initial-impressions)
- [Creating Users](#creating-users)
- [Adding and Removing Roles from Users](#adding-and-removing-roles-from-users)
- [Getting Roles](#getting-roles)
- [Setting Roles](#setting-roles)
- [Adding Collections to OrionJS](#adding-collections-to-orionjs)
- [Updating Collection Documents](#updating-collection-documents)
- [Schemas](#schemas)
- [Adding Comments Collection](#adding-comments-collection)
- [Custom Input Types (Widgets)](#custom-input-types-widgets)
- [Adding Summernote](#adding-summernote)
- [Orion Attributes](#orion-attributes)
- [Adding Images to Amazon S3 (updated 07/28/2015)](#adding-images-to-amazon-s3-updated-07282015)
- [Setting up S3](#setting-up-s3)
- [Configuring OrionJS](#configuring-orionjs)
- [Changing Tabular Templates (updated 7/29/2015)](#changing-tabular-templates-updated-7292015)
- [orion.attributeColumn()](#orionattributecolumn)
- [Custom Tabular Templates](#custom-tabular-templates)
- [Template-Level Subscriptions](#template-level-subscriptions)
- [Meteor Tabular Render](#meteor-tabular-render)
- [Meteor Tabular with Actual Templates](#meteor-tabular-with-actual-templates)
- [Dictionary (updated 7/28/2015)](#dictionary-updated-7282015)
- [Relationships](#relationships)
- [hasOne](#hasone)
- [Chicken and the Egg](#chicken-and-the-egg)
- [Correcting File Load Order](#correcting-file-load-order)
- [hasMany](#hasmany)
- [Multiple Relationships (updated 7/31/2015)](#multiple-relationships-updated-7312015)
- [Limitations of Defining Relationships](#limitations-of-defining-relationships)
- [Setting Roles and Permissions (updated 8/3/2015)](#setting-roles-and-permissions-updated-832015)
# Meteor OrionJS with Microscope Tutorial #
## Purpose ##
I haven't been able to find a good tutorial that goes through the end-to-end setup for OrionJS, so I decided to create this tutorial both as a learning resource for others but also as a way for me to keep track of my own progress as I poke around OrionJS and figure out how to do stuff with it.
There will be cursing in this tutorial.
## Cloning Microscope ##
Most Meteor developers should be familiar with Microscope, the social news app which the user codes along with when following the [Discover Meteor](https://www.discovermeteor.com/) tutorial book. If you haven't read and coded along with this book, do it. Now.
As of this writing, Microscope does not have a backend admin system in place to manage its data, so I thought that it would be the ideal candidate for creating a tutorial on how to get OrionJS working.
First, go to https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope and clone the repo.
```
git clone [email protected]:DiscoverMeteor/Microscope.git
cd Microscope
meteor update
```
## Download OrionJS ##
OrionJS is designed to work nicely with Bootstrap, which is perfect because Microscope does as well.
```
meteor add orionjs:core fortawesome:fontawesome orionjs:bootstrap
```
When you do `meteor list` you should see (versions may be different):
```
accounts-password 1.1.1 Password support for accounts
audit-argument-checks 1.0.3 Try to detect inadequate input sanitization
fortawesome:fontawesome 4.3.0 Font Awesome (official): 500+ scalable vector icons, customizable via CSS, Retina friendly
ian:accounts-ui-bootstrap-3 1.2.76 Bootstrap-styled accounts-ui with multi-language support.
iron:router 1.0.9 Routing specifically designed for Meteor
orionjs:bootstrap 1.2.1 A simple theme for orion
orionjs:core 1.2.0 Orion
sacha:spin 2.3.1 Simple spinner package for Meteor
standard-app-packages 1.0.5 Moved to meteor-platform
twbs:bootstrap 3.3.5 The most popular front-end framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
underscore 1.0.3 Collection of small helpers: _.map, _.each, ...
```
## Initial Impressions ##
Great! Now that we've added all these packages, let's start up Microscope and see how screwed up we made everything.
```
meteor
```
Then point your browser to `http://localhost:3000/`
Everything looks like it should:
Now let's go to `http://localhost:3000/admin`
Looks like crap.
The reason this is here is because there's a hidden red alert box that is floating right. It's a style that was defined in Microscope so let's go remove it. Comment out that line of code.
```css
/client/stylesheets/style.css
.alert {
animation: fadeOut 2700ms ease-in 0s 1 forwards;
-webkit-animation: fadeOut 2700ms ease-in 0s 1 forwards;
-moz-animation: fadeOut 2700ms ease-in 0s 1 forwards;
width: 250px;
/* float: right;*/
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 5px;
pointer-events: auto;
}
```
This is going to make Microscope look crappier but I'm crap at CSS so screwit.
Better. The invisible alert box is still taking up space but I can't be screwed to do anything about it.
## Creating Users ##
Looks like we need to create users and log in first before we can see the OrionJS backend.
Go here and replace the original `// create two users` code with this:
(Don't just copy this code and replace everything in `fixtures.js` with this since it's just partial code.)
```javascript
/server/fixtures.js
// Fixture data
if (Posts.find().count() === 0) {
var now = new Date().getTime();
// create two users
var sachaId = Accounts.createUser({
profile: {
name: 'Sacha Greif'
},
username: "sacha",
email: "[email protected]",
password: "123456",
});
var tomId = Accounts.createUser({
profile: {
name: 'Tom Coleman'
},
username: "tom",
email: "[email protected]",
password: "123456",
});
var sacha = Meteor.users.findOne(sachaId);
var tom = Meteor.users.findOne(tomId);
var telescopeId = Posts.insert({
title: 'Introducing Telescope',
userId: sacha._id,
author: sacha.profile.name,
url: 'http://sachagreif.com/introducing-telescope/',
submitted: new Date(now - 7 * 3600 * 1000),
commentsCount: 2,
upvoters: [], votes: 0
});
Comments.insert({
postId: telescopeId,
userId: tom._id,
author: tom.profile.name,
submitted: new Date(now - 5 * 3600 * 1000),
body: 'Interesting project Sacha, can I get involved?'
});
```
Shut down Meteor with `Ctrl+C` and do a `meteor reset` and start it back up again with `meteor`.
Now let's log in **as Sacha** and see what happens. Once logged in, click on the `Accounts` link on the left.
- Nice. Absolutely nothing shows up except the `Accounts` collection. Microscope has a `Posts` collection as well as a `Comments` collection.
- ... and WTF. Tom is an `admin` but Sacha is not. We didn't even tell Meteor to make Tom an `admin` in my fixtures code, so what the hell happened?
It turns out that by default, OrionJS will create a user `Role` called `admin` and if there is no `admin`, will assign the **first** user created with `Accounts.createUser` as an `admin`. Remember this so you're not creating accidental admin users in your fixtures code.
I can't spell Sasha's name for crap so let's remove him as admin and have Tom as admin. Because ignoring your spelling weaknesses make them go away.
## Adding and Removing Roles from Users ##
Unlike other user roles packages, the `role` of the user in `OrionJS` isn't stored on the `user` object itself. You won't find something like:
```javascript
{
username: 'cletus',
email: '[email protected]',
roles: [
'admin',
'parent',
'varmit_hunter'
]
}
```
Instead, each separate `role` is stored in a `Roles` collection and the `userId` of the user is referenced along with an array containing their `roles`.
### Getting Roles###
Let's screw around in the Chrome console before we do anything. While in the `Accounts` admin page, do:
```console
var id = Meteor.users.findOne({username: "sacha"})._id;
Roles.userHasRole(id, "admin")
true
```
It should return `true`. We got Sesha's userId and then used that ID to check if he has the role of "admin."
Likewise, each user has a `roles()` and `hasRole()` method on its object:
```console
// gets the currently logged in user, which should be Sassha
var user = Meteor.user();
user.roles();
["admin"]
user.hasRole("admin")
true
```
So that's how you check if a user has a role you want.
Currently there doesn't seem to be a method to check *which* users have a certain role.
###Setting Roles###
We need to give Tom the role of `admin`.
In Chrome console:
```
var user = Meteor.users.findOne({username: "tom"});
Roles.addUserToRoles( user._id , ["admin"] );
VM11445:2 Uncaught TypeError: Roles.addUserToRoles is not a function(anonymous function)
```
DUH. You can't define roles on the client. Because that's dumb.
Let's make a new file called `/server/admin.js`
```javascript
/server/admin.js
var tom = Meteor.users.findOne({username: 'tom'});
Roles.addUserToRoles( tom._id , ["admin"] );
```
If we go back to the OrionJS admin console we should see that now Tom and Sache are both admins.
Now we want to remove Sachet as an admin.
```javascript
/server/admin.js
var tom = Meteor.users.findOne({username: 'tom'});
Roles.addUserToRoles( tom._id , ["admin"] );
var nameIcantSpel = Meteor.users.findOne({username: 'sacha'});
Roles.removeUserFromRoles( nameIcantSpel._id, ["admin"] );
```
You'll notice that you can log into `OrionJS` as Sacsh, but you won't see `Accounts` on the sidebar since he's no longer an `admin`. So log in as Tom instead.
And now Tom is the only admin!
Spelling weakness successfully ignored!
##Adding Collections to OrionJS##
Here's where this tutorial gets less horrible.
Microscope has a `Posts` and `Comments` collection, but both aren't visible yet in the admin thingy. That's because they're not `Orion` collections yet.
Let's make them appear.
```javascript
// This is what it used to be:
// Posts = new Mongo.Collection('posts');
// Instead let's do:
Posts = new orion.collection('posts', {
singularName: 'post', // The name of one of these items
pluralName: 'posts', // The name of more than one of these items
link: {
// *
// * The text that you want to show in the sidebar.
// * The default value is the name of the collection, so
// * in this case it is not necessary.
title: 'Posts'
},
/**
* Tabular settings for this collection
*/
tabular: {
// here we set which data columns we want to appear on the data table
// in the CMS panel
columns: [
{
data: "title",
title: "Title"
},{
data: "author",
title: "Author"
},{
data: "submitted",
title: "Submitted"
},
]
}
});
Posts.allow({
update: function(userId, post) { return ownsDocument(userId, post); },
remove: function(userId, post) { return ownsDocument(userId, post); },
});
Posts.deny({
update: function(userId, post, fieldNames) {
// may only edit the following two fields:
```
If you go back to the Microscope home page you'll see that everything appears to have remained normal. Orion collections are just extended Mongo collections.
Now it looks like we got `Posts` appearing in `OrionJS`.
Reactive search works. Sorting columns is working. Pagination is working.
But when we click on a table item we get:
Errors and crap.
Luckily the error is pretty descriptive. This form needs either a schema or a collection.
##Updating Collection Documents##
When we click on one of the table items we expect to go to an update form for that particular item. `OrionJS` uses the vastly powerful `aldeed:autoform` package to generate its forms. `aldeed:autoform` in turn uses the `aldeed:simple-schema` package to know *how* to generate its forms.
###Schemas###
Schemas are these little (tee-hee) things that define how the data in your database should be. If you've got a `User` document with a `first_name` property, you'd expect the value to be a `type: String`. If having a first name is critical, you'd want it to be `optional: false`.
We use schemas to keep our data consistent. MongoDB is inherently a schema-less database. It would happily allow you to screw yourself over by storing an array of booleans inside the `first_name` property of your `user` document, for instance. And then you go to access it and your wife leaves you (probably not your husband because he's clueless).
So this is why people decided to make a schema package for Meteor. They love you and want happy families.
Let's start by defining a schema for our `Posts` collection all the way at the very bottom of `/lib/collections/posts.js`. I'm too lazy to type so read the comments.
```javascript
/lib/collections/posts.js
// Rest of the code above
$addToSet: {upvoters: this.userId},
$inc: {votes: 1}
});
if (! affected)
throw new Meteor.Error('invalid', "You weren't able to upvote that post");
}
});
/**
* Now we will define and attach the schema for this collection.
* Orion will automatically create the corresponding form.
*/
Posts.attachSchema(new SimpleSchema({
// We use `label` to put a custom label for this form field
// Otherwise it would default to `Title`
// 'optional: false' means that this field is required
// If it's blank, the form won't submit and you'll get a red error message
// 'type' is where you can set the expected data type for the 'title' key's value
title: {
type: String,
optional: false,
label: 'Post Title'
},
// regEx will validate this form field according to a RegEx for a URL
url: {
type: String,
optional: false,
label: 'URL',
regEx: SimpleSchema.RegEx.Url
},
// autoform determines other aspects for how the form is generated
// In this case we're making this field hidden from view
userId: {
type: String,
optional: false,
autoform: {
type: "hidden",
label: false
},
},
author: {
type: String,
optional: false,
},
// 'type: Date' means that this field is expecting a data as an entry
submitted: {
type: Date,
optional: false,
},
commentsCount: {
type: Number,
optional: false
},
// 'type: [String]' means this key's value is an array of strings'
upvoters: {
type: [String],
optional: true,
autoform: {
disabled: true,
label: false
},
},
votes: {
type: Number,
optional: true
},
}));
```
I told you schemas are little, right?
Save and try clicking on a post item again.
Ohhhhh... crap! It's almost like I... planned... things.
Play around with this form and look at how the `schema` we defined directly correlates to how this form was generated.
- make the `Post Title` blank and save the form
- remove `http` in `URL` and save the form
- click on the `Submitted` field to see how `type: Date` works
##Adding Comments Collection##
How about we do the same thing to the `Comments` collection as we did to the `Posts` collection?
I'll race you. Ready? Go.
Done I WIN.
```javascript
/lib/collections/comments.js
Comments = new orion.collection('comments', {
singularName: 'comment', // The name of one of these items
pluralName: 'comments', // The name of more than one of these items
link: {
// *
// * The text that you want to show in the sidebar.
// * The default value is the name of the collection, so
// * in this case it is not necessary.
title: 'Comments'
},
/**
* Tabular settings for this collection
*/
tabular: {
// here we set which data columns we want to appear on the data table
// in the CMS panel
columns: [
{
data: "author",
title: "Author"
},{
data: "postId",
title: "Post ID"
},{
data: "submitted",
title: "Submitted"
},
]
}
});
Meteor.methods({
commentInsert: function(commentAttributes) {
check(this.userId, String);
check(commentAttributes, {
postId: String,
body: String
});
var user = Meteor.user();
var post = Posts.findOne(commentAttributes.postId);
if (!post)
throw new Meteor.Error('invalid-comment', 'You must comment on a post');
comment = _.extend(commentAttributes, {
userId: user._id,
author: user.username,
submitted: new Date()
});
// update the post with the number of comments
Posts.update(comment.postId, {$inc: {commentsCount: 1}});
// create the comment, save the id
comment._id = Comments.insert(comment);
// now create a notification, informing the user that there's been a comment
createCommentNotification(comment);
return comment._id;
}
});
/**
* Now we will define and attach the schema for that collection.
* Orion will automatically create the corresponding form.
*/
Comments.attachSchema(new SimpleSchema({
postId: {
type: String,
optional: false,
label: 'Post ID'
},
userId: {
type: String,
optional: false,
label: 'User ID',
},
author: {
type: String,
optional: false,
},
submitted: {
type: Date,
optional: false,
},
body: {
type: String,
optional: false,
}
}));
```
How about we do something even more CRAZY and add in a text editor for the `Body` field?
##Custom Input Types (Widgets)##
First, some background.
Forms have standard input types. Checkboxes. Radio buttons. Text. These are all supported out of the box by `aldeed:autoform`. But things like text editors (with buttons for selecting font type, size, color, etc) are custom, and `autoform` gives us a way to define our own widgets in the `schema` so that autoform can generate that form for us.
###Adding Summernote###
First do `meteor add orionjs:summernote`
Now do this to the `body` property:
```javascript
/lib/collections/comments.js
// now create a notification, informing the user that there's been a comment
createCommentNotification(comment);
return comment._id;
}
});
/**
* Now we will attach the schema for that collection.
* Orion will automatically create the corresponding form.
*/
Comments.attachSchema(new SimpleSchema({
postId: {
type: String,
optional: false,
label: 'Post ID'
},
userId: {
type: String,
optional: false,
label: 'User ID',
},
author: {
type: String,
optional: false,
},
submitted: {
type: Date,
optional: false,
},
body: orion.attribute('summernote', {
label: 'Body'
}),
}));
```
Click on the comment by Sashi in the OrionJS admin panel to see what's up.
Niiiice.
###Orion Attributes###
So what the hell is the `orion.attribute` we adding as the value for the `body` key in our schema? How about we just use our Chrome Console?
```
orion.attribute('summernote', {
label: 'Body'
})
Object {label: "Body", type: function, orionAttribute: "summernote", ...}
autoform: Object
label: "Body"
orionAttribute: "summernote"
type: function String() { [native code] }
__proto__: Object
```
Oh. looks like by adding the `orionjs:summernote` package we got access to this method that returns a pre-made object for us that we can conveniently use in our schema. Remember that `aldeed:autoform` uses the schema to figure out *how* to generate form items, so this attribute did all the defining-the-input-widget stuff for us.
`orion.attribute('nameOfAnAttribute', optionalObjectToExtendThisAttributeWith)`
I'm going to make this comment fabulous. ROYGBIV and Comic Sans the crap out of that comment, Sechie.
Save it.
Remember that this comment is now in HTML, so we have to add triple spacebars `{{{ TRIPLEX #vindiesel }}}` in our `comment_item.html` to make sure Spacebars will render the HTML properly.
```html
/client/templates/comments/comment_item.html
on {{submittedText}}
{{{ body }}}
```
Let's survey the improvements by going to the main page and clicking on the comments for the `Introducing Telescope` post.
Beauty.
###Adding Images to Amazon S3 (updated 07/28/2015)###
No comment will be complete without image spamming.
Some notes:
- currently, uploading images directly from Summernote doesn't work
- images will be hosted through Amazon S3. I don't go over how to do it with `GridFS` or other filesystem packages.
`meteor add orionjs:image-attribute orionjs:filesystem orionjs:s3`
####Setting up S3####
You're going to want to follow this tutorial FIRST to set up your Amazon S3:
https://github.com/Lepozepo/S3/#amazon-s3-uploader
Make sure that you've got your S3 credentials in your `server` folder. It wouldn't hurt to add this file to your `.gitignore` file as well. On second thought, scratch what I just said and send me links to your repos instead... because... porn.
```javascript
/server/s3_credentials.js
// something like this
S3.config = {
key: 'BVT&(Y*(H&TG*&H',
secret: 'B^&Y*UGUFGO*(PU(/7sdfgwTVwS/',
bucket: 'meteor.microscopelolololololol',
region: 'us-west-1'
};
```
####Configuring OrionJS####
Create a new file:
```javascript
/lib/orion_filesystem.js
/**
* Official S3 Upload Provider
*
* Please replace this function with the
* provider you prefer.
*
* If success, call success(publicUrl);
* you can pass data and it will be saved in file.meta
* Ej: success(publicUrl, {local_path: '/user/path/to/file'})
*
* If it fails, call failure(error).
*
* When the progress change, call progress(newProgress)
*/
orion.filesystem.providerUpload = function(options, success, failure, progress) {
S3.upload({
files: options.fileList,
path: 'orionjs',
}, function(error, result) {
debugger
if (error) {
failure(error);
} else {
success(result.secure_url, { s3Path: result.relative_url });
result;
debugger
}
S3.collection.remove({})
});
Tracker.autorun(function () {
var file = S3.collection.findOne();
if (file) {
progress(file.percent_uploaded);
}
});
};
/**
* Official S3 Remove Provider
*
* Please replace this function with the
* provider you prefer.
*
* If success, call success();
* If it fails, call failure(error).
*/
orion.filesystem.providerRemove = function(file, success, failure) {
S3.delete(file.meta.s3Path, function(error, result) {
if (error) {
failure(error);
} else {
success();
}
})
};
```
What this bit of code does is it defines two methods - one for uploading a file to S3 and another for removing a file from S3. It also adds a progress bar during the upload process.
Now it's schema time again since we want to add a file upload section to our Comment Update form!
```javascript
/lib/collections/comments.js
author: {
type: String,
optional: false,
},
submitted: {
type: Date,
optional: false,
},
body: orion.attribute('summernote', {
label: 'Body'
}),
image: orion.attribute('image', {
optional: true,
label: 'Comment Image'
}),
}));
```
Go into a comment in the admin panel and upload something!
Make sure to click on the `Save` button after you're done. Also note that the moment you select an image the Amazon uploader will start. You'll see a progress bar.
Finally, we should go see what it looks like on the main page, but remember to modify the `comment_item` template with the new `image` key that a `comment` document now has.
```
/client/templates/comments/comment_item.html
on {{submittedText}}
{{{body}}}
{{#if image }}
{{/if}}
```
Voila!
Sassha and Tom are going to KILL me.
##Changing Tabular Templates (updated 7/29/2015)##
If we go back to our admin panel and look at comments, we see that the table is pretty dumb:
`
1. The `Submitted` column contains WAY too much information. Something like Month-Day-Year-Time would look nicer. I'm going to completely ignore you people who do it the more logical way of Time-Day-Month-Year because, uh, freedom.
2. We also have the issue of the `Post ID` column being essentially stupid. I'd prefer if that column contained the title of the Post instead.
3. I also want a column that shows a short blurb of the comment's `body`, something like `Interesting project Sacha, can I...`
Let's tackle #1 first. If you guessed that we need to go back into our `Schema` to change this, you just WON the JACKPOT of zero money.
###orion.attributeColumn()###
We are interested in:
orion.attributeColumn('createdAt', 'submitted', 'FREEDOM!!!'),
```javascript
/lib/collections/comments.js
Comments = new orion.collection('comments', {
singularName: 'comment', // The name of one of these items
pluralName: 'comments', // The name of more than one of these items
link: {
// *
// * The text that you want to show in the sidebar.
// * The default value is the name of the collection, so
// * in this case it is not necessary.
title: 'Comments'
},
/**
* Tabular settings for this collection
*/
tabular: {
// here we set which data columns we want to appear on the data table
// in the CMS panel
columns: [
{
data: "author",
title: "Author"
},{
data: "postId",
title: "Post ID"
},
orion.attributeColumn('createdAt', 'submitted', 'FREEDOM!!!'),
]
}
});
```
Let's check it out!
This handy-dandy method goes like this:
`orion.attributeColumn('nameOfTemplate', 'keyNameOnYourObject', 'columnLabel')`
Think about it. Meteor uses templates to display stuff. We had a crazy long date and we wanted to change the *look* of it, so using a template makes sense.
Luckily, `OrionJS` comes with some pre-made templates. One of them happens to be called `createdAt`.
`createdAt` wants a `Date` object, which happens to reside in the `submitted` key of each of your documents in the `Comments` collection. Lastly, we tell it what we want our column label to be.
Now, some freedom-hating people probably want a custom template for Time-Day-Month-Year. Let's get to that next.
###Custom Tabular Templates###
Now onto issue #2 - the `Post ID` column should be the title of the Post instead.
Open up Chrome Console and type in `Comments.findOne()`. It found a comment, right?
Now do `Posts.findOne()`. Hmmm... no post found. That's because this route isn't subscribed to anything in the `Posts` collection. If you've done Meteor before, chances are you've been using `Iron Router` to manage your data subscriptions for your routes. Unfortunately, since OrionJS is a package, it's difficult to tap into and modify the generated routes that OrionJS has already made for us. So what do we do?
####Template-Level Subscriptions####
Meteor can subscribe to data in normal template callbacks (`onRendered, onCreated`). And as it turns out, OrionJS has a very standardized template naming scheme*.
`collections.myCollection.index` - the main page that lists all the items in the collection
`collections.myCollection.create` - the form for creating a new item in the collection
`collections.myCollection.update` - the form for updating an existing item in the collection
`collections.myCollection.delete` - the form/page for deleting an existing item in the collection
These, by the way, are your standard pages for CRUD actions.
*These aren't necessarily the actual names of the templates, but the `identifier` that OrionJS uses to find the actual template.
BTW, if you want to see a list of all the route names that are registered with Iron Router, open up Chrome Console and do:
```javascript
_.each(Router.routes, function(route){
console.log(route.getName());
});
```
Here are some more identifiers: http://orionjs.org/docs/customization#overridetemplates
So let's use this to subscribe to the `Posts` collection on the `comments.index` template.
```javascript
/client/templates/orion/comments_index.js
ReactiveTemplates.onCreated('collections.comments.index', function() {
this.subscribe('posts', {sort: {submitted: -1, _id: -1}, limit: 0});
});
```
What this is saying is that when the template with an identifier of 'collections.comments.index' (the `Comments` index page) is created, subscribe the template to the data you specify.
Now go back to the `Comments` index page and do `Posts.find().count()` to see that you've got `Posts` now!
####Meteor Tabular Render####
So now that this page has the data we need, how do we actually change the contents of the cell itself?
`OrionJS` uses `aldeed:meteor-tabular` to show its datatables, and it just so happens that this latter package provides a way to change the cell value: https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-tabular#example
```javascript
/lib/collections/comments.js
Comments = new orion.collection('comments', {
singularName: 'comment', // The name of one of these items
pluralName: 'comments', // The name of more than one of these items
link: {
title: 'Comments'
},
/**
* Tabular settings for this collection
*/
tabular: {
// here we set which data columns we want to appear on the data table
// in the CMS panel
columns: [
{
data: "author",
title: "Author"
},{
data: "postId",
title: "Post Title",
render: function (val, type, doc) {
var postId = val;
var postTitle = Posts.findOne(postId).title;
return postTitle;
}
},
orion.attributeColumn('createdAt', 'submitted', 'FREEDOM!!!'),
]
},
});
```
Go play around inside this function. `console.log` `val`, `type`, and `doc` to see what they are:
```javascript
{
data: "postId",
title: "Post Title",
render: function (val, type, doc) {
var postId = val;
var postTitle = Posts.findOne(postId).title;
return postTitle;
}
}
```
`data: "postId"` is critical here because that's how `val` gets its value.
After you're through go back and look at the `Comments` index page:
####Meteor Tabular with Actual Templates####
Finally, onto #3. We want a column that shows a short blurb of the comment `body`, something like `Interesting project Sacha, can I...`. This is called `truncating` a string.
I want to create an actual template for this:
```html
/client/templates/orion/comments_index_blurb_cell.html
{{{ blurb }}}
```
Hold on there Skippy! Truncating a straight string that's, say, 100 characters long into one that's 15 characters long with a `...` at the end is fairly straightforward. But remember that we added Summernote and we have a *fabulous* comment?
The HTML for this comment actually looks like:
```html
You sure can Tom!!!
```
Sooo... we can't just do a simple truncate of this down to 15 characters. I mean, we can...
...IF WE'RE NUBZ!
But `pathable` is not a nub:
https://github.com/pathable/truncate
Go to `/client/javascript` and literally just chuck this script's `jquery.truncate.js` file in there. Meteor will take care of minifying and loading this script automatically onto your page, as it does with *all* javascript that's not in the `/public` folder.
And now we can go ahead and create a helper for our template:
```javascript
/client/templates/orion/comments_index_blurb_cell.js
Template.commentsIndexBlurbCell.helpers({
blurb: function(){
var blurb = jQuery.truncate(this.body, {
length: 15
});
return blurb
}
});
```
Finally, we go back to modify our `tabular` object:
```javascript
/lib/comments.js
Comments = new orion.collection('comments', {
singularName: 'comment', // The name of one of these items
pluralName: 'comments', // The name of more than one of these items
link: {
title: 'Comments'
},
/**
* Tabular settings for this collection
*/
tabular: {
// here we set which data columns we want to appear on the data table
// in the CMS panel
columns: [
{
data: "author",
title: "Author"
},{
data: "postId",
title: "Post Title",
render: function (val, type, doc) {
var postId = val;
var postTitle = Posts.findOne(postId).title;
return postTitle;
}
},{
data: "body",
title: "Comment",
tmpl: Meteor.isClient && Template.commentsIndexBlurbCell
},
orion.attributeColumn('createdAt', 'submitted', 'FREEDOM!!!'),
]
},
});
```
`data: "body"` subscribes us to the values for the `body` key so that it's available for our template.
`tmpl: Meteor.isClient && Template.commentsIndexBlurbCell` looks kind of weird but remember that this code is in `/lib`, which runs on both the client and server, and `Template` isn't defined on the server. So that's why `aldeed:meteor-tabular` requires you to do this `Meteor.isClient` thing.
WABAM!
And... done.
##Dictionary (updated 7/28/2015)##
Let's go back to the Microscope main page. Say that you wanted to add a little description blurb after the word `Microscope` at the top left.
- You not only want to add a description, but you want to be able to periodically change it as well AND you want text formatting on it AND you don't want to touch any code to change it - all you want is to change it from the OrionJS admin panel from inside of an update form.
- And since I'm rolling right now, let's be able to change the `Microscope` word as well.
- AND since people like to sue, let's add a terms and conditions blurb at the bottom of every `Post Submit` page that our lawyers can periodically update with worse and worse conditions for the consumer.
Sounds like we need a collection, a schema, and a dictionary of some sort that keeps track of lolidontknowhowtoexplainjustkeepreading.
Create a new file:
```javascript
/lib/orion_dictionary.js
orion.dictionary.addDefinition('title', 'mainPage', {
type: String,
label: 'Site Title',
optional: false,
min: 1,
max: 40
});
orion.dictionary.addDefinition('description', 'mainPage',
orion.attribute('summernote', {
label: 'Site Description',
optional: true
})
);
orion.dictionary.addDefinition('termsAndConditions', 'submitPostPage',
orion.attribute('summernote', {
label: 'Terms and Conditions',
optional: true
})
);
```
`orion.dictionary.addDefinition()` takes three arguments:
```
orion.dictionary.addDefinition(
nameOfYourDictionaryItem,
categoryOfYourDictionaryItem,
schemaForYourDictionaryItem
);
```
You'll see how this pans out in a little bit.
```
/client/templates/includes/header.html