Add items to default_actions column about activeadmin

[macfanatic]

@lukei8ii - additional DSL was added to do this in 0.6 release:

ActiveAdmin.register Post do
  index do
    column :name
    actions defaults: true do |post|
      link_to "Archive", archive_admin_post_path(post) if can?(:archive, post), class: "member_link"
    end
  end
end

[danishsatkut]

We can show multiple action items in the following way:

actions defaults: false do |post|
    item 'View', admin_post_path(post), class: 'member_link'
    item 'Archive', archive_admin_post_path(post), class: 'member_link'
    item 'Publish', publish_admin_post_path(post), class: 'member_link'
end

The above code will not display the default links of View, Edit, Delete as we are passing defaults: false to actions method call. Also remember to add the class member_link which adds space between links.

[bartezic]

How i can add few custom actions to default actions?

actions do |tour|
  link_to "Clone", {:action => 'clone', :id => tour }, :method => :put
  link_to "Share", {:action => 'share', :id => tour }, :method => :put 
end

Now I can add correctly only one action.

[alexventuraio]

@danishsatkut Following your example, it work fine but I have a link to delete with method set to delete like below but how to add a dialog box to confirm the delete action by the user as in a normal link_to helper?

actions defaults: false do |user|
  item 'View', optumadmin_user_path(user), class: 'member_link'
  item 'Edit', edit_optumadmin_user_path(user), class: 'member_link'
  item 'Delete', optumadmin_user_path(user), class: 'member_link', method: :delete
end

[seanlinsley]

This is the code in question:

def actions(options = {}, &block)
  options = {
    :name => "",
    :defaults => true
  }.merge(options)
  column options[:name] do |resource|
    text_node default_actions(resource) if options[:defaults]
    text_node instance_exec(resource, &block) if block_given?
  end
end

As you can see, the given block's return value is passed to text_node. So one option would be to concatenate the links:

actions do |tour|
  link_to("Clone", ...) +
  link_to("Share", ...)
end

[krtschmr]

@AlexVentura

doesn't it just passes the args to the helper method?

item 'Delete', optumadmin_user_path(user), class: 'member_link', method: :delete, confirm: "Delete this item"

[danishsatkut]

@AlexVentura Try this:

item 'Delete', optumadmin_user_path(user), class: 'member_link', method: :delete, data: { confirm: "Delete this item" }

[krtschmr]

this needs some work!

[alexventuraio]

Now it works adding data- prefix:

item 'Delete', optumadmin_user_path(user), class: 'member_link', method: :delete, 'data-confirm': "Are you sure you want to delete this?"

Thanks!

[torrick]

While I agree with the feature couldn't you do something like this:

index do 
  column :title
  column :author
  column() {|post| link_to 'Approve', :action => :approve }
end 

I was able to add an edit link in one of my models using this method. YMMV.

[DougPuchalski]

+1 to be able to add to existing index actions. Clean and DRY.

[amoslanka]

IMO, default_actions or another helper method should automatically display links only if that action is available. So if actions are declared as

actions :index, :show, :edit, :update

the only link that would display would be "View" and "Edit"

[amoslanka]

Added the ability to :except specific default_actions buttons in my fork at https://github.com/struckaxiom/active_admin

Will submit a pull request if this is a generally acceptable modification.

To use, do this:

default_actions :except => [:delete, :edit]

[amoslanka]

Another addition, just added the :only option to default_actions. FYI, :except takes precedence over :only, for whatever reason that situation might come up.

https://github.com/struckaxiom/active_admin

Will pull request if this mod is generally acceptable.

[gregbell]

@amoslanka This looks great! If you add some specs, I'd love to pull this in to the main line. If you have any questions about the Active Admin specs, feel free to ask. Cheers

[georgekitchit]

Has the ability to be able to add to existing index actions been added?

[akashkamboj]

@gregbell the @amoslanka patch working fine, if you can add this to current version it will be great. I think then we can close this issue. There is also another commit by knoopx which is for handling the active inherited resources at https://github.com/knoopx/active_admin/commit/eb42c9dc9b9c872f7f7d16c4efbc551c877743a1.

[RobertLowe]

Bump, +1, this is simple and a common use case.

[nickpellant]

I'd like to see this implemented too.

[jamesduncombe]

This would be great!

[marvwhere]

+1

[jarrodrobins]

+1!

[BaylorRae]

+1

[gregbell]

Closing and adding to our list of feature requests. Will open when it's actually scheduled to be developed. And of course, we always accept pull requests :)

[lukei8ii]

This was a great addition, but doesn't seem to solve the original problem of being able to add action items to the default_actions column. @fractur3d had a solution to add an action item, but this creates another column if also using default_actions. How do I use default_actions and add an action item to the same column?

[seanlinsley]

Specifically it was #1834

[lukei8ii]

Thanks @macfanatic and @daxter

[seanlinsley]

You have to pass defaults: true when calling actions
EDIT: misread what you were asking

[bartezic]

Thanks a lot!

[AlexeyMK]

@seanlinsley - this concatenation requirement is very non-intuitive, and delayed me for a fair bit.

This is my first time with arbre, or I'd send in a PR myself - basically, we need to switch from taking the return value of the block to the side effects generated by the functions inside - it that right?

[seanlinsley]

How would you propose we do that? In Ruby there's no way to recognize the end-result of any given line of code in a block.

[AlexeyMK]

My ruby/rails experience is still pretty minimalistic, so hopefully it's helpful if I just describe how the current system defies my expectations.

In ERB or HAML, if I write code along the lines of

some_element do
  link_to first_thing
  link_to second_thing
end

I expect that both first_thing and second_thing will be linked. Here, this doesn't happen. Further, the example only provided one additional link, with no intuition on how to make multiple custom links work (something at least a few people need).

Proposed solutions:

1. Add an example with multiple links that uses +es
2. Instead of a block, take arguments to the actions function, IE

actions({custom_actions: [link_to(first_thing), link_to(second_thing)...]})

`3. Provide an example that uses a partial, IE

actions do 
  render partial: "custom_user_links"
end 

app/views/admin/custom_user_links.html.haml:

= link_to first_thing
= link_to second_thing

I am partial to solution #2, I think.

Grain of salt: I haven't dug into the source for this to see how it works.

The idiomatic way to do this would be to instance_eval the block given to actions instead of relying on the return value of the block.

That may be easier said than done.

[msiraj83]

Normaly when we add default_action command... Then name for the column is empty... Is any way to rename the column....???

[alexventuraio]

@krtschmr @danishsatkut Mmm it does not work for me!