5. Dashboard
5. Dashboard¶
The Dashboard is the main landing page. By default it lists your mapped models,
as defined by your Admin
services. This is useful to help you start using
SonataAdminBundle
right away, but there is much more that you can do to take
advantage of the Dashboard.
The Dashboard is, by default, available at /admin/dashboard
, which is handled by
the SonataAdminBundle:Core:dashboard
controller action. The default view file for
this action is SonataAdminBundle:Core:dashboard.html.twig
, but you can change
this in your config.yml
:
- YAML
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# app/config/config.yml sonata_admin: templates: dashboard: SonataAdminBundle:Core:dashboard.html.twig
Note
This view, like most of the SonataAdminBundle
views, extends a global
template file, which also contains significant parts to the page. More information
about this is available in the Templates chapter.
5.1. Blocks¶
The Dashboard is actually built using Blocks
from SonataBlockBundle
. You
can learn more about this bundle and how to build your own Blocks on the
SonataBlock documentation page.
5.2. The Admin
list¶
The Admin
list is a Block
that fetches information from the Admin
service’s
Pool
and prints it in the nicely formated list you have on your default Dashboard.
The Admin
list is defined by the sonata.admin.block.admin_list
service, which is
implemented by the Block\AdminListBlockService
class. It is then rendered using the
SonataAdminBundle:Block:block_admin_list.html.twig
template file.
Feel free to take a look at these files. You’ll find the code rather short and easy to understand, and it will be a great help when implementing your own blocks.
5.3. Configuring the Admin
list¶
As you probably noticed by now, the Admin
list groups Admin
mappings together.
There are several ways in which you can configure these groups.
5.3.1. Using the Admin
service declaration¶
The first, and most commonly used, method is to set a group when defining your Admin
services:
- XML
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<service id="sonata.admin.post" class="Acme\DemoBundle\Admin\PostAdmin"> <tag name="sonata.admin" manager_type="orm" group="Content" label="Post"/> <argument /> <argument>Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Post</argument> <argument /> </service>
- YAML
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services: sonata.admin.post: class: Acme\DemoBundle\Admin\PostAdmin tags: - name: sonata.admin manager_type: orm group: "Content" label: "Post" arguments: - ~ - Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Post - ~
In these examples, notice the group
tag, stating that this particular Admin
service belongs to the Content
group.
- XML
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<service id="sonata.admin.post" class="Acme\DemoBundle\Admin\PostAdmin"> <tag name="sonata.admin" manager_type="orm" group="acme.admin.group.content" label="acme.admin.model.post" label_catalogue="AcmeDemoBundle"/> <argument /> <argument>Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Post</argument> <argument /> </service>
- YAML
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services: sonata.admin.post: class: Acme\DemoBundle\Admin\PostAdmin tags: - name: sonata.admin manager_type: orm group: "acme.admin.group.content" label: "acme.admin.model.post" label_catalogue: "AcmeDemoBundle" arguments: - ~ - Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Post - ~
In this example, the labels are translated by SonataAdminBundle
, using the given
label_catalogue
. So, you can use the above examples to support multiple languages
in your project.
Note
You can use parameters (e.g. %acme_admin.group_post%
) for the group names
in either scenario.
5.3.2. Using the config.yml
¶
You can also configure the Admin
list in your config.yml
file. This
configuration method overrides any settings defined in the Admin service
declarations.
- YAML
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# app/config/config.yml sonata_admin: dashboard: groups: acme.admin.group.content: label: acme.admin.group.content label_catalogue: AcmeDemoBundle items: - sonata.admin.post acme.admin.group.blog: items: ~ item_adds: - sonata.admin.page roles: [ ROLE_ONE, ROLE_TWO ] acme.admin.group.misc: ~
Note
This is an academic, full configuration, example. In real cases, you will usually
not need to use all the displayed options. To use a default value for any setting
either leave out that key or use the ~
value for that option.
This configuration specifies that the acme.admin.group.content
group uses the
acme.admin.group.content
label, which is translated using the AcmeDemoBundle
translation catalogue (the same label and translation configuration that we declared
previously, in the service definition example).
It also states that the acme.admin.group.content
group contains just the
sonata.admin.post
Admin
mapping, meaning that any other Admin
services
declared as belonging to this group will not be displayed here.
Secondly, we declare a acme.admin.group.blog
group as having all its default items
(i.e. the ones specified in the Admin
service declarations), plus an additional
sonata.admin.page
mapping, that was not initially part of this group.
We also use the roles
option here, which means that only users with the ROLE_ONE
or ROLE_TWO
privileges will be able to see this group, as opposed to the default setting
which allows everyone to see a given group. Users with ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN
are always
able to see groups that would otherwise be hidden by this configuration option.
The third group, acme.admin.group.misc
, is set up as a group which uses all its
default values, as declared in the service declarations.
5.4. Adding more Blocks¶
Like we said before, the Dashboard comes with a default Admin
list block, but
you can create and add more blocks to it.
In this screenshot, in addition to the default Admin
list block on the left, we added
a text block and RSS feed block on the right. The configuration for this scenario would be:
- YAML
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# app/config/config.yml sonata_admin: dashboard: blocks: - position: left type: sonata.admin.block.admin_list - position: right type: sonata.block.service.text settings: content: > <h2>Welcome to the Sonata Admin</h2> <p>This is a <code>sonata.block.service.text</code> from the Block Bundle, you can create and add new block in these area by configuring the <code>sonata_admin</code> section.</p> <br /> For instance, here a RSS feed parser (<code>sonata.block.service.rss</code>): - position: right type: sonata.block.service.rss settings: title: Sonata Project's Feeds url: http://sonata-project.org/blog/archive.rss
Note
Blocks may accept/require additional settings to be passed in order to work properly. Refer to the associated documentation/implementation to get more information on each block’s options and requirements.
5.4.1. Display two Admin
list blocks with different dashboard groups¶
The same block can have multiple instances, and be displayed multiple times
across the Dashboard using different configuration settings for each instance.
A particular example is the Admin
list block, which can be configured to
suit this scenario.
- YAML
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# app/config/config.yml sonata_admin: dashboard: blocks: # display two dashboard blocks - position: left type: sonata.admin.block.admin_list settings: groups: [sonata_page1, sonata_page2] - position: right type: sonata.admin.block.admin_list settings: groups: [sonata_page3] groups: sonata_page1: items: - sonata.page.admin.myitem1 sonata_page2: items: - sonata.page.admin.myitem2 - sonata.page.admin.myitem3 sonata_page3: items: - sonata.page.admin.myitem4
In this example, you would have two admin_list
blocks on your dashboard, each
of them containing just the respectively configured groups.
5.4.1.1. Dashboard Layout¶
Supported positions right now are the following:
- top
- left
- center
- right
- bottom
The layout is as follows:
Top | ||
Left | Center | Right |
Bottom |
On top
and bottom
positions, you can also specify an optionnal class
option to set the width of the block.
- YAML
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# app/config/config.yml sonata_admin: dashboard: blocks: # display one dashboard block in the top zone with a col-md-6 HTML class - position: top class: col-md-6 type: sonata.admin.block.admin_list
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