[FEATURE] Filtering role and permissions in user CRUD

[mariovillani]

Hello,
Is there a way to filter out selectable roles/permissions in the CRUD view of the UserCrudController?
In my application, permissions and roles that are available to choose when an user is created/updated via Backpack change by checking current user's authorizations.

I expect to add in the //SOME OPTIONS comment section:

CRUD::field([   // two interconnected entities
    'label'             => 'User Role Permissions',
    'field_unique_name' => 'user_role_permission',
    'type'              => 'checklist_dependency',
    'name'              => 'roles,permissions', // the methods that define the relationship in your Models
    'subfields'         => [
        'primary' => [
            'label'            => 'Roles',
            'name'             => 'roles', // the method that defines the relationship in your Model
            'entity'           => 'roles', // the method that defines the relationship in your Model
            'entity_secondary' => 'permissions', // the method that defines the relationship in your Model
            'attribute'        => 'name', // foreign key attribute that is shown to user
            'model'            => "Backpack\PermissionManager\app\Models\Role", // foreign key model
            'pivot'            => true, // on create&update, do you need to add/delete pivot table entries?]
            'number_columns'   => 3, //can be 1,2,3,4,6,
            // SOME OPTIONS
        ],
        'secondary' => [
            'label'          => 'Permission',
            'name'           => 'permissions', // the method that defines the relationship in your Model
            'entity'         => 'permissions', // the method that defines the relationship in your Model
            'entity_primary' => 'roles', // the method that defines the relationship in your Model
            'attribute'      => 'name', // foreign key attribute that is shown to user
            'model'          => "Backpack\PermissionManager\app\Models\Permission", // foreign key model
            'pivot'          => true, // on create&update, do you need to add/delete pivot table entries?]
            'number_columns' => 3, //can be 1,2,3,4,6
             // SOME OPTIONS
        ],
    ],
]);

Something like the "options" field for the type "select" CRUD::field to filter out results:

CRUD::field([  // Select
   'label'     => "Category",
   'type'      => 'select',
   ...
   'options'   => (function ($query) {  //Something like that to filter out the available roles
        return $query->orderBy('name', 'ASC')->where('depth', 1)->get();
    }), //  you can use this to filter the results show in the select
]);

But seems like nothing like that is implemented. Any ideas on how to do that?
Thanks in advance.

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[pxpm]

Hey @mariovillani I think I got your request, thanks for it 🙏

Unfortunately checklist_dependency is not as flexible as a regular select, it does its own query and parsing of the results in the field itself to build the dependency list. https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/blob/4c7030524540d34ca32db367a48ae03d34c14505/src/resources/views/crud/fields/checklist_dependency.blade.php#L21

I'd recommend you overwrite this field and do your customization. We don't plan to add new features in this field, actually if something we may have ahead in the road plan is to rewrite this field into a more general component.

If you want to keep both fields (the core and the custom) you can just create a field with a different name starting from the checklist dependency, with: php artisan backpack:field checklist_dependency_custom --from=checklist_dependency.

https://backpackforlaravel.com/docs/6.x/crud-how-to#how-to-publish-a-column-field-filter-button-and-modify-it

Closing this, please feel free to continue the conversation or re-open if you think I am wrong.

Hope that helps 🙏