Crud: [4.0][Feature request][Important] Matrix field type / ability to select multiple field in table

[rasez]

Can I change table field column from text to another field like upload or select2?

[mounssif]

Try this

Delete the field that you want to change with:

$this->crud->removeField('name', 'update/create/both');
And then add the field:

$this->crud->addField([ 
   'label' => "Category",
   'type' => 'select2',
   'name' => 'category_id', // the db column for the foreign key
   'entity' => 'category', // the method that defines the relationship in your Model
   'attribute' => 'name', // foreign key attribute that is shown to user
   'model' => "App\Models\Tag" // foreign key model
]);

[ablunier]

I think that this is not what @rasez meant with his question. If I understood well the question, you are asking for changing the input types in the table field type, right? https://laravel-backpack.readme.io/docs/crud-fields#section-table

I think that this is currently not possible, but in my opinion could be a good new feature.

[rasez]

Yes, I meant that @ablunier

[lloy0076]

@ablunier @rasez - actually, can someone restate the question? I'd have thought https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/issues/771#issuecomment-313092348 might have been the answer but if it's not, I don't know what the question is actually asking.

(I know that @ablunier has restated it but it's not clear to me, still, what is being asked).

[rasez]

There is a table field in crud

[ // Table
    'name' => 'options',
    'label' => 'Options',
    'type' => 'table',
    'entity_singular' => 'option', // used on the "Add X" button
    'columns' => [
        'name' => 'Name',
        'desc' => 'Description',
        'price' => 'Price'
    ],
    'max' => 5, // maximum rows allowed in the table
    'min' => 0 // minimum rows allowed in the table
],

but all columns are text type it would be great if we can chose type of columns like upload,select2 or etc

[ed: added back ticks for the code :imp:]

[tabacitu]

Hi @rasez ,

There's currently no way to do that automatically - you should create another field type starting from table that uses the field type you need. But such a feature IS planned. Work-in-progress name is "the matrix field" and it should allow us to create a table with any combination of field types. But it's a lot more complicated than it sounds and it will require a rewrite of all fields, in order to reuse them. So it's unlikely this will happen in this current version. But the next version will definitely have it.

Cheers!

[rasez]

I want to know about the status of this feature is it possible to say when this feature is ready to use?

[tabacitu]

Hi @rasez . No updates. Definitely won't be ready in the next few months. It has HUGE implications. As I mentioned, I doubt Backpack 3.x will have it. I hope Backpack 4.0 will, but there's no work started for 4.x, nor a release date.

[AurelDragut]

Till then you can do something like i did. I created a table-adv.blade.php field file where i did something like this so far

@foreach( $field['columns'] as $prop)
                            @if($prop['type'] == 'checkbox')
                                <td>
                                    <input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" ng-model="item.{{ $prop['name'] }}" />
                                </td>
                            @else
                                <td>
                                    <textarea class="form-control input-sm" @include('crud::inc.field_attributes') ng-model="item.{{ $prop['name'] }}"></textarea>
                                </td>
                            @endif
                        @endforeach

and in the field definition i added type after name and desc in the columns array... as you can see i only added checkboxes so far but you can go further.

[doncadavona]

How is this going? Where can we track this?

[tabacitu]

@doncadavona no updates on this yet, sorry. I'll make a note to reply here too when we have something.

/remind me in 2 months

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:wave: @tabacitu,

[xavinci]

Just want to chime in and voice that this is still a desired feature :) @tabacitu

[RaimisErvit]

Still nothing ? :) I think this table-matrix must have one more thing. Repeat all table.

Example:
In one "tab" i want enter 1,2,3..10 Clients and in all these clients must have enter multi inputs(table-matrix). And of course need column counting - optionality.

2 level depth repeat table-matrix :) Now i create this with custom-field, but with many jQuery and chaotic code.... :)

[tabacitu]

Done! The multiply field type allows you to group any number of Backpack fields into a container. Then that container can be multiplied any number of times. Currently looks a little underwhelming, but that can be easily improved:

It's in PR https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/pull/1987 which will get merged soon, so I'm going to close the issue.

The field type is currently called multiply - it was a development name. Anybody has any idea of a better name? Ideas:

• multiply
• matrix
• reapeatable
• containers
• boxes

None of them feel "right" to me...

[RaimisErvit]

for me best name are "reapeatable". Thanks for this solution!!! 😉👍🤛🙌

[xavinci]

flexible content field or flexible field is a term used in ACF/Wordpress for
this type of functionality.
Really excited that this is coming! Thanks for your work on it.
James

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for me best name are "reapeatable"

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[doncadavona]

Thanks @tabacitu , we hope it gets documented too, for us to read in the docs! :D
.
.
In addition to the said names, I'm thinking of the following:

• grouped_fields

[dividy]

Great news @tabacitu !
And great job on V4 !

[nikolaystrikhar]

Omg I had so many problems with my own implementation, so happy to hear!

And I like "repeatable" one.

[dividy]

Repeatable is indeed nice. ACF also has "Repeater" field.

[samuk190]

Done! The multiply field type allows you to group any number of Backpack fields into a container. Then that container can be multiplied any number of times. Currently looks a little underwhelming, but that can be easily improved:

It's in PR #1987 which will get merged soon, so I'm going to close the issue.

The field type is currently called multiply - it was a development name. Anybody has any idea of a better name? Ideas:

• multiply
• matrix
• reapeatable
• containers
• boxes

None of them feel "right" to me...

cool but it can add and remove with foreign keys? when it will be available to use

[tabacitu]

@samuk190 it'll probably be launched in 1-2 weeks

[logicweb]

@tabacitu any news on the release date? Thanks

[tabacitu]

We finally have a PR for this! We've been using it in client projects for a while now, it has no known bugs and it _should_ be pretty stable. But it needs extensive testing, before we can release it for thousands of projects to use.

Let's move the conversation in the PR please: https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/pull/2266

[rasez]

Done! The multiply field type allows you to group any number of Backpack fields into a container. Then that container can be multiplied any number of times. Currently looks a little underwhelming, but that can be easily improved:

It's in PR #1987 which will get merged soon, so I'm going to close the issue.

The field type is currently called multiply - it was a development name. Anybody has any idea of a better name? Ideas:

• multiply
• matrix
• reapeatable
• containers
• boxes

None of them feel "right" to me...

Thanks a lot for your awesome work @tabacitu