Crud: Customizing the User form and "row level security"

[avifatal]

Hi,
I am building a P.O.C of a multi tenant app.
In general, I have Office entity, each user belongs to one Office (each office has Many Users).

1. When adding a new user, I need to add another field combo box for office selection. this user will be added with a permission add-users-to-my-office (office-manager role)
   how can I tweak the User entity? or do i need third part entity to connect user to office?

1. After I achieve this, I want to allow all office managers to add users to their office only. and list only their office users, is that possible? do you have an example for that? (kind of row level security)

Thanks

[automat64]

I have done something similar.

You can override UserCrudController by copying it in your /app crud controllers directory. This way you can add a field and use a select for editing and adding.

You can handle the office-manager role in the store and update function of your new controller.

Now for the second part, there are a few options you can choose.

select documentation mentions that you can use the entity option to customize the results but it is not taken into account. Or at least it didn't some time ago. Perhaps the new ajax select fields work better in that regard. Haven't tried it yet.

Another option is to create a custom select field option (check the documentation) and put some logic in the blade template so it only brings the relevant office.

Another option is to create a separate Office Model with a global scope (you can set the global scope dynamically). Then in your setup() function you can use that model using the setModel().

Please bear in mind that I'm a laravel newbie so the above might not be good practices.

[avifatal]

Thank you.
What I did is take the code from vendor UserCrudController and created a new one instead.
Thanks

[marko89kv]

How did you publish UserCrudController? I tried doing the same, and still the one from vendors folder is loaded?

[lloy0076]

You can simply copy/paste it and then replace it in the config/auth.php.

[marko89kv]

Thank you!

[marko89kv]

@lloy0076 Sorry, after taking a look in config/auth.php I can't see where I would reference the location of UserCrudController. This is how my config/auth.php looks

https://pastebin.com/dhEUb4S6

[iMokhles]

it's under PermissionManager package

UserCrudController.php

[marko89kv]

Yes, I know, but I would like to "publish" it, and customize it, so in case PermissionManager gets updated, I don't lose my customizations.

[iMokhles]

you can create UserCrudController.phpunder your App\Http\Controllers\Admin and copy/paste the contains to the new file, then in your admin route file add CRUD::resource('user', 'UserCrudController'); that's all

[lloy0076]

https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/issues/455#issuecomment-328335843 explains this - sorry I must have missed you wanted the controller and not just to replace/modify the underlying (and default) user model.

[marko89kv]

Got it, thanks.

[marko89kv]

Ok, not good :)

I've copied UserCrudController.php, put it under App\HttpControllersAdmin, and in the under the admin group in routes, I've added CRUD::resource('user', 'UserCrudController');

I'm getting this:

Basically, why I want to override UserCrudController is because I want to add the Impersonate feature from that view, adding custom buttons and such.

[OwenMelbz]

You need to modify and rename the class.

If you read the error "cannot redeclare class" - means your using the name of an existing class.

[marko89kv]

Same thing... Renamed it into CustomUserCrudController

CRUD::resource('user', 'CustomUserCrudController');

<?php

namespace Backpack\PermissionManager\app\Http\Controllers;

use Backpack\CRUD\app\Http\Controllers\CrudController;
use Backpack\CRUD\app\Http\Requests\CrudRequest;
use Backpack\PermissionManager\app\Http\Requests\UserStoreCrudRequest as StoreRequest;
use Backpack\PermissionManager\app\Http\Requests\UserUpdateCrudRequest as UpdateRequest;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

class CustomUserCrudController extends CrudController
{
    public function setup()
    {

EDIT: maybe it's a problem that the route is the same?

[OwenMelbz]

I'd read up on how PHP Namespaces work -> https://daylerees.com/php-namespaces-explained/

Might help you spot your problem - but again read the error carefully and check your code for duplication to see what the clash might be.

Hint: Its nothing to do with the routes.

[marko89kv]

Got it... I'm gonna go cry now a little bit
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Admin;
Thanks a lot :+1: