Filament•7mo 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•7mo ago

Cool. What's the problem?

hello_worldOP•7mo ago

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

Tetracyclic•7mo ago

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

hello_worldOP•7mo 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•7mo 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_worldOP•7mo ago

not working bro

Tetracyclic•7mo 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•7mo ago

->placeholder('-')

Dennis Koch•7mo ago

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

Tetracyclic•7mo ago

TIL. Should that be PRd to the docs?

LeandroFerreira•7mo ago

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

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Tetracyclic•7mo 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•7mo ago

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

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hello_worldOP•7mo ago

working Thanks @Leandro Ferreira and @Dennis Koch

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I can't formatState of TextColumn having value null