Filament•3mo ago

I can't formatState of TextColumn having value null

TextColumn::make('last_contacted')->date('M d')->label('Last Attempt')->sortable()->formatStateUsing(function($state){
                    if($state != null){
                        info($state);
                    }
                    else{
                        info('hello');
                    }
                }),

TextColumn::make('last_contacted')->date('M d')->label('Last Attempt')->sortable()->formatStateUsing(function($state){
                    if($state != null){
                        info($state);
                    }
                    else{
                        info('hello');
                    }
                }),

14 Replies

ChesterS•3mo ago

Cool. What's the problem?

hello_world•3mo ago

if i have the value as null then i want to change it to '-' but i can't

Tetracyclic•3mo ago

What's the problem you're running into? What happens if you use: ->formatStateUsing(fn ($state): string => $state ?? '-')

hello_world•3mo ago

i want a '-' at the arrow mark place in the picture but the code gave isn't working because the value of that place is null so formatStateUsing isn't working there

ChesterS•3mo ago

Try to remove the ->date('M d') part and formatting the date inside your formatStateUsing section

TextColumn::make('last_contacted')
->label('Last Attempt')
->sortable()
->formatStateUsing(function($state){
    if($state != null){
        info($state->format('M d'));
    }
    else{
        info('hello');
    }
}),

TextColumn::make('last_contacted')
->label('Last Attempt')
->sortable()
->formatStateUsing(function($state){
    if($state != null){
        info($state->format('M d'));
    }
    else{
        info('hello');
    }
}),

something like that

hello_world•3mo ago

not working bro

Tetracyclic•3mo ago

Are you sure that $state is null, and not an empty string? In this: ->formatStateUsing(fn ($state): string => $state ?? '-') If $state is an empty string, it will return that instead. If so, the following should work ->formatStateUsing(fn ($state): string => filled($state) ? $state : '-')

LeandroFerreira•3mo ago

->placeholder('-')

Dennis Koch•3mo ago

formatStateUsing is not executed for null values. Try ->placeholder() as Leandro suggests or use ->getStateUsing()

Tetracyclic•3mo ago

TIL. Should that be PRd to the docs?

LeandroFerreira•3mo ago

https://filamentphp.com/docs/3.x/tables/columns/getting-started#adding-placeholder-text-if-a-column-is-empty ?

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Tetracyclic•3mo ago

I'm referring to formatStateUsing not being called when a field is null on initialisation, and that getStateUsing() could be an alternative in those situations. getStateUsing() was in the v2 docs, but removed. The docs for formatStateUsing (in forms) only say that it's called when fill() is called on the form, but not that it's only called on fields that will be have data to fill. And dehydrateStateUsing is called on fields with a null value.

Tetracyclic•3mo ago

And in tables: https://filamentphp.com/docs/3.x/tables/columns/text#custom-formatting

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hello_world•3mo ago

working Thanks @Leandro Ferreira and @Dennis Koch

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I can't formatState of TextColumn having value null