Actions

• Introduction
• Create
• Responses
  • Redirects
• Confirm Modal
• Fields
• Display the Action
  • In a Table
  • On a Page

Introduction

Actions are a convenient feature to create reusable tasks for models. Each action can be placed in different locations. For example in your index table or on a detail page of a model.

Create

Create an action via artisan:

php artisan lit:action MyAction

The created actions are located in ./lit/app/Actions.

namespace Lit\Actions;

use Illuminate\Support\Collection;

class MyAction
{
    public function run(Collection $models)
    {
        // Do Something.
    }
}

Responses

When a message is returned via a json response, a toast is displayed in the lower right corner of the page containing the message. This can be displayed in four variants: success, info, warning, danger. The default is success.

public function run(Collection $models)
{
    return response()->json(['message' => 'Hello there!', 'variant' => 'info']);
}

There is a helper for each vairant:

return response()->success('My message.');
return response()->info('My message.');
return response()->warning('My message.');
return response()->danger('My message.');

Redirects

In some cases you may want to redirect the user to another page after the action has been executed. This can be done as usual by returning a redirect.

public function run(Collection $models)
{
    // Do Something.

    return redirect('your/redirect/url');
}

Confirm Modal

If your action has the function modal, the execution of the action must be confirmed via a modal.

namespace Lit\Actions;

use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
use Ignite\Page\Actions\ActionModal;

class MyAction
{
    public function modal(ActionModal $modal)
    {
        $modal->confirmVariant('primary')
            ->confirmText('Run')
            ->message('Do you want to run the Action?');
    }

    public function run(Collection $models)
    {
        // Do Something.
    }
}

Fields

Form fields can be added to the confirm modal of an action. The values of these fields are passed to the action. This allows you, for example, to let the user type in a message to be sent by mail, as shown the following example.

use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
use Ignite\Page\Actions\ActionModal;
use Ignite\Page\Actions\AttributeBag;

public function modal(ActionModal $modal)
{
    $modal->form(function($form) {
        $form->text('message')->title('Message');
    });
}

public function run(Collection $models, AttributeBag $attributes)
{
    foreach($models as $model) {
        Mail::to($model)->send(new ExampleEmail($attributes->message));
    }
}

Display the Action

In a Table

There are multiple places where an action can be displayed in a table, first of all an action can be executed for all selected items:

// CrudConfig

use Lit\Actions\MyAction;

public function index(CrudIndex $page)
{
    $page->table(...)
        ->action('My Action', MyAction::class);
}

Additionally actions can be displayed in table columns to make important actions more accessible. You can add either one action as a button or several actions as dropdown to a column:

use Lit\Actions\MyAction;
use Lit\Actions\OtherAction;

$page->table(function($table) {
    // Single action as button:
    $table->action('My Action', MyAction::class); 

    // Multiple actions as dropdown:
    $table->actions([
        'My Action' => MyAction::class,
        'Other Action' => OtherAction::class,
    ]); 
});

On a Page

Actions can also be displayed on the show page of a crud, even in the slots navigationLeft, navigationRight, navigationControls, headerLeft and headerRight:

// CrudConfig

use Lit\Actions\MyAction;

public function show(CrudShow $page)
{
    $page->navigationLeft()->action('My Action', MyAction::class);
    $page->navigationRight()->action('My Action', MyAction::class);
    $page->navigationControls()->action('My Action', MyAction::class);
    $page->headerLeft()->action('My Action', MyAction::class);
    $page->headerRight()->action('My Action', MyAction::class);
}

The variant of the actions that are displayed as buttons can be adjusted:

$page->headerLeft()->action('My Action', MyAction::class)->variant('outline-primary');