How to add "select all" functionality to ng-select in Angular 5

Question

I found an examle which can do "select all": https://ng-select.github.io/ng-select#/multiselect-checkbox

But, I get an error: Cannot read property 'selected' of undefined. I am wondering why I got this error, and how to implement "select all" using ng-select in Angular 5.

Thank you

Answer 1

Using ng-select in Angular 5 limits you to using v1.6.3 of ng-select (or < v2.x), but you can accomplish this using the ng-select header template. I included the code below, but this is a working Stackblitz I put together as an example:

<ng-select [items]="listOfItems"
            bindValue="id"
            bindLabel="name"
            [multiple]="true"
            placeholder="Select City"
            formControlName="example">

  <ng-template ng-header-tmp>

    <div>
      <button class="btn btn-link"
              (click)="onSelectAll()">Select All</button>
      <button class="btn btn-link"
              (click)="onClearAll()">Clear All</button>
    </div>

  </ng-template>

</ng-select>

Then in your controller you would patch the form control with an array of values mapped to only include the bound values you provided to ng-select, which are the bindValue key values.

public onSelectAll() {
  const selected = this.listOfItems.map(item => item.id);
  this.form.get('example').patchValue(selected);
}

public onClearAll() {
  this.form.get('example').patchValue([]);
}