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5. Search

5. Search¶

The admin comes with a basic global search available in the upper navigation menu. The search iterates over admin classes and look for filter with the option global_search set to true. If you are using the SonataDoctrineORMBundle any text filter will be set to true by default.

5.1. Disabling the search by admin¶

You can disable the search for a whole admin by setting the global_search attribute to false at your admin definition using the tag sonata.admin.

XML

<service id="app.admin.post" class="App\Admin\PostAdmin">
    <tag name="sonata.admin" global_search="false" manager_type="orm" group="Content" label="Post"/>
    <argument/>
    <argument>App\Entity\Post</argument>
    <argument/>
</service>

5.2. Customization¶

The main action is using the template @SonataAdmin/Core/search.html.twig. And each search is handled by a block, the template for the block is @SonataAdmin/Block/block_search_result.html.twig.

The default template values can be configured in the configuration section

YAML

# config/packages/sonata_admin.yaml

sonata_admin:
    templates:
        # other configuration options
        search:              '@SonataAdmin/Core/search.html.twig'
        search_result_block: '@SonataAdmin/Block/block_search_result.html.twig'

You also need to configure the block in the sonata block config

YAML

# config/packages/sonata_admin.yaml

sonata_block:
    blocks:
        sonata.admin.block.search_result:
            contexts: [admin]

You can also configure the block template per admin while defining the admin:

XML

<service id="app.admin.post" class="App\Admin\PostAdmin">
      <tag name="sonata.admin" manager_type="orm" group="Content" label="Post"/>
      <argument/>
      <argument>App\Entity\Post</argument>
      <argument/>
      <call method="setTemplate">
          <argument>search_result_block</argument>
          <argument>@SonataPost/Block/block_search_result.html.twig</argument>
      </call>
  </service>

5.2.1. Configure the default search result action¶

In general the search result generates a link to the edit action of an item or is using the show action, if the edit route is disabled or you haven’t the required permission. You can change this behavior by overriding the searchResultActions property. The defined action list will we checked successive until a route with the required permissions exists. If no route is found, the item will be displayed as a text:

// src/Admin/PersonAdmin.php

final class PersonAdmin extends AbstractAdmin
{
    protected $searchResultActions = ['edit', 'show'];
}

5.3. Performance¶

The current implementation can be expensive if you have a lot of entities as the resulting query does a LIKE %query% OR LIKE %query%…

Note

There is a work in progress to use an async JavaScript solution to better load data from the database.

5.4. Customize visibility of empty result boxes¶

By default all the admin boxes are shown in search results and it looks like this:

We can fade out the boxes that have no results with:

# config/packages/sonata_admin.yaml

sonata_admin:
    global_search:
        empty_boxes: fade

and it looks like this:

The third option is to hide the empty boxes:

# config/packages/sonata_admin.yaml

sonata_admin:
    global_search:
        empty_boxes: hide

and it looks like this:

5.5. Case sensitive/insensitive¶

By default all searches are done case-sensitive.

Note

This will support PostgreSQL out of the box, but unless you change the collation of MySQL, MSSQL or SQLite, it will have no effect! They are case-insensitive by default.

To search case-insensitive use the following option:

# config/packages/sonata_admin.yaml

sonata_admin:
    global_search:
        case_sensitive: false

Using case-insensitivity might lead to performance issues. You can find some more information here.

Instead of searching all fields case-insensitive with PostgreSQL, you can use a dedicated CITEXT type via opsway/doctrine-dbal-postgresql and keep the case-sensitive option with true.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.