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Admin dashboard objects

Dashboard objects are elements defined by your admin module attached to the admin UI entry dashboard screen after the login. Basically the dashboard objects are returning a template which is feed by an API response. All dashboard objects are defined inside the luya\admin\base\Module -> $dashboardObjects property.

Predefined dashboards

You can choose from predefined dashboard objects which provides predefined styles to render:

php
public $dashboardObjects = [
    [
        'class' => 'luya\admin\dashboard\BasicDashboardObject',
        'template' => '<ul ng-repeat="item in data"><li>`item.title`</li></ul>',
        'dataApiUrl' => 'admin/api-news-article',
        'title' => 'Latest News',
    ],
    [
        // ... next dashboard object
    ]
];

In order to customize the template of a basic dashboard object you can override the luya\admin\dashboard\BasicDashboardObject -> $outerTemplate:

php
[
    'class' => 'luya\admin\dashboard\BasicDashboardObject',
    'outerTemplate' => '<div class="wrap-around-template"><h1>{{title}}</h1><small>{{template}}</small></div>',
    'template' => '<ul ng-repeat="item in data"><li>{{ item.title }}</li></ul>',
    'dataApiUrl' => 'admin/api-news-article',
    'title' => 'Latest News',
],

The outerTemplate does have predefined variables: title, template, dataApiUrl in double curly braces.

In order to make links inside the dashboard use the ui-sref directive

A few examples:

  • Module index page: default({'moduleId':5})"
  • To a module NgRest CRUD (or any other route): default.route({moduleId: 5, moduleRouteId:'myadminmodule', controllerId:'my-controller', actionId:'index'})
  • To a specific item/id inside the NgRest CRUD: default.route.detail({moduleId: 5, moduleRouteId:'myadminmodule', controllerId:'my-controller', actionId:'index', id: 1})
  • To a CMS edit form: custom.cmsedit({ navId : item.nav_id, templateId: 'cmsadmin/default/index'})"

Custom dashboard object

You can also write your own dashboard object but make sure you extend the luya\admin\base\DashboardObjectInterface interface.