Crud: [Improvement] Getting sum of particular columns

[sklazer]

Hi guys. First of all - thanks for a great admin panel package! It's awesome!

I would like to propose one improvement - getting sum of particular columns. So, if type of the column is number (or float) - add functionality to get sum of all records by this column under list of results.

I think this improvement would be useful for everyone who working on accounting (or bills, payments, etc.).

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[AbbyJanke]

Hi there, i feel like this is a rather niche usecase and i’m not 100% sure how it could be implemented by default with datatables sum plugin.

Because we use datatables you can create a custom list.blade.php file and add im thr datatables sum plugin for the time being if you need to have the total:

https://datatables.net/plug-ins/api/sum()

[tabacitu]

Will close this issue for now - I totally agree with @AbbyJanke . But if people come here and reply that they would also like it (feature request is no longer niche), we should consider building an easier way to do this.

[breizhwave]

and here's a code snippet you can add to custom list.blade.php for displaying a total in a div you can position wherever you like
https://gist.github.com/breizhwave/545a361ed941d7b449e7a9a07bf97055

[tabacitu]

Nice! Thanks for sharing this @breizhwave !

[charliedearce]

need this feature. its very helpful on accounting side! hehe

[pxpm]

Hey @charliedearce

Have you checked: backpack widgets

You can add nice widgets with your sums and accounting stats.

Best,
Pedro