Filament•2w ago

Best way to handle bulk-attaching models

I have a courses model and a users model, with a many-to-many relationship between the 2. I need a way to attach many users at once to a certain course. The users that need to be attached are stored in a csv with their unique IDs. Here are a few options I came up with: - using a CSV importer: since I have a csv I could simply import it and associate that way. the problem with this method is that configuring an importer is tedious and error prone - here is another idea I came up with that I am not sure is possible in filament or not: having an action that opens a modal with an input field, this input field would take multiple space seperated user ids and then inserts them into the pivot table. this idea sounds good but I am not sure how to implement it if someone could guide me on how to implement the second option or has a better idea let me know!

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exikoz•2w ago

Have you tried doing it through bulk actions? https://filamentphp.com/docs/3.x/tables/actions#bulk-actions

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Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All•2w ago

I figured out a good solution using a custom action, here is the code for future reference:

Action::make('Attach')
    ->form( [
        TagsInput::make('ids')
            ->label('IDs')
            ->validationAttribute('IDs')
            ->required()
            ->rules([
                fn (): Closure => function (string $attribute, $value, Closure $fail) {
                    $records = User::whereIn('cin', $value)->pluck('cin')->toArray();
                    $nonExistantIds = array_diff($value, $records);

                    if(!empty($nonExistantIds)) {
                        $fail('The following :attribute don\'t exist in the the database: ' . implode(', ',$nonExistantIds));
                    }
                },
            ])
            ->splitKeys([' '])
    ])->action(function (array $data, RelationManager $livewire) {

        $ids = User::whereIn('cin', $data['ids'])->pluck('id')->toArray();

        $course = Course::find($livewire->ownerRecord->id);

        $course->users()->syncWithoutDetaching($ids);

    })

Action::make('Attach')
    ->form( [
        TagsInput::make('ids')
            ->label('IDs')
            ->validationAttribute('IDs')
            ->required()
            ->rules([
                fn (): Closure => function (string $attribute, $value, Closure $fail) {
                    $records = User::whereIn('cin', $value)->pluck('cin')->toArray();
                    $nonExistantIds = array_diff($value, $records);

                    if(!empty($nonExistantIds)) {
                        $fail('The following :attribute don\'t exist in the the database: ' . implode(', ',$nonExistantIds));
                    }
                },
            ])
            ->splitKeys([' '])
    ])->action(function (array $data, RelationManager $livewire) {

        $ids = User::whereIn('cin', $data['ids'])->pluck('id')->toArray();

        $course = Course::find($livewire->ownerRecord->id);

        $course->users()->syncWithoutDetaching($ids);

    })

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