Configuring the List Fields

We've been tweaking a bunch of stuff on the list view. But... what about this big giant table in the middle!? How can we customize that?

Actually, EasyAdminBundle did a pretty good job with it: it guesses which fields to show, humanizes the column header labels and renders things nicely. Good job Javier!

The EasyAdminBundle Profiler

Before we tweak all of this, see that magic wand in the web debug toolbar? Say "Alohomora" and click to open that in a new tab. This is the EasyAdminBundle profiler... and it's awesome. Here, under "Current entity configuration", we can see all of the config we've been building for this entity, including default values that it's guessing for us. This is a sweet map for knowing what can be changed and how.

Under list, then fields, it shows details about all the columns used for the table. For example, under name, you can see type => string. Actually, dataType is the really important one.

Here's the deal: each field that's rendered in the table has a different data type, like string, float, date, email and a bunch others. EasyAdminBundle guesses a type, and it affects how the data for that field is rendered. We can change the type... and anything else you see here.

Controller Fields

How? Under Genus and list, add fields. Now, list the exact fields that you want to display, like id, name and isPublished:

These 3 fields were already shown before.

Let's also show firstDiscoveredAt... but! I want to tweak it a little. Just like with actions, there is an "expanded" config format. Add { } with property: firstDiscoveredAt.

Now... what configuration can we put here? Because this is a date field, it has a format option. Set it to M Y. And, all fields have a label option. Use "Discovered":

Keep going! Add funFact and then one more expanded property: property: speciesCount. This is an integer type, which also has a format option. For fun, set it to %b - binary format!

Yea know because, scientists are nerds and like puzzles.

If your head is starting to spin with all of these types and options that I'm pulling out of the air, don't worry! Almost all of the options - like label - are shared across all the types. There are very few type-specific options like format.

And more importantly, in a few minutes, we'll look at a list of all of the valid types and their options.

Ok! Close the profiler tab and refresh. Bam! The table has our 6 columns!

Customizing the Search View

Try out the search again: look for "quo". Ok nice! Without any work, the search view re-uses the fields config from list.

You can add a fields key under search, but it means something different. Add fields: [id, name]:

Out-of-the-box, the bundle searches every field for the search string. You can see that in the queries. But now, it only searches id and name.

Next, let's dive into some of the more interesting field types and their config.