Can't set the select2 value programatically from js about select2entity-bundle HOT 3 OPEN

$('#your select id').select2entity().select2('open');
$('.select2-search__field').eq(0).val('your value').trigger('input');

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No problem setting the value programmatically (some clever javascript was required to programmatically add the attribute selected="selected") - the problem is that when I post the page back, there is no longer a selected value (this only happens when loading via jquery ajax - or adding options by any method - javascript or jquery). .trigger('change') has no effect (it triggers, for sure, but it still forgets what is set. What good is an HTML Select if you can't post back a selection or selections?

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I see this is an old issue but I've searched for hours on this and there doesn't seem to be a satisfactory way to achieve this. It seems like an obvious use case, there are various reasons to want to programmatically insert select2 search term. In my case I am using tagging and a user might have saved a draft version of my object with a "tagged" option that I want to remember, but when I reload the page I want to represent it as a tagged object, not an existing option.

The big issue I have is that the createTag method never gets called when you do the option append / trigger change method recommended most places. I simply want to mimic a user typing a search term and pressing enter to create a tag instead of selecting an existing option but I might have 20 on one page and don't want to go through opening dropdown and populating popup boxes.

Select2 3.5.x apparently had a method to dynamically mimic the search term, does 4.x+ really have nothing like that?

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