Voyager: Defining the output view of a custom form field

[JanisE]

• Laravel Version: 5.5.39
• Voyager Version: 1.0.16
• PHP Version: 7.0.28
• Database Driver & Version: mysql, MariaDB 10.0.34

Description:

It seems there is no way apart from overriding the views/bread/read.blade.php template to define the view/HTML for custom form fields.

Even if I create the form field handler and the view as instructed on https://voyager.readme.io/v1.0/docs/adding-custom-formfields, that view is still not used when I browse a table containing the custom field, or view its records.

It looks like views/bread/read.blade.php has all the HTML output hard-coded, and any non-original field types are just output as text

Steps To Reproduce:

• Create a custom form field as instructed in Voyager docs, modifying the template in some way (say, adding class="form-control special-type-of-numbers");
• create BREAD for a table assigning that type to some column;
• open that table in admin – the modification/class is not there;
• click on "View" for some row – the modification/class is not there;

[emptynick]

Yes, that is because a Formfield is an input, not an output for read

[JanisE]

Yes, that makes sense. Still, viewing is very closely related to editing and the whole entity management (R in CRUD, R and B in BREAD), so being able to customise the view along with customising the edit form and saving is quite important.

This would be a feature suggestion then.

[emptynick]

Which is already in the making ;)

[vpillinger]

It should also be added that the docs don't mention this necessary step in https://docs.laravelvoyager.com/customization/adding-custom-formfields and that the docs should probably be updated to inform people of this sooner rather than later.

[emptynick]

https://docs.laravelvoyager.com/customization/overriding-formfields

[tommiekn]

Was this implemented ? @emptynick docs doesnt works.

[emptynick]

Well yes, 2 years ago round about

[tommiekn]

@emptynick and theres any docs on how to do it anywhere ?

Current adding custom formfields docs talks about the same stuff and theres no news about replacing the output on read.blades

[tommiekn]

@emptynick in your commit here:
https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager/commit/ed8cd38bdc78a8669150b7903116cd01ae827965

You have added that "/customization/overriding-formfields" doc, and it is not online anywhere so wondering if thats the way to go or what.

I have tried to add "view" to options but with no results, scraped code to figure out how it should work but the "$row->details->view" in the read.blade seems coming from Bread conf not the customformfield class.

I need to replace all views on all read.blades for a customformfield.

Could you help please with a clear example on how to make this work?

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