ToggleColumn - making conditionally invisible

Hi I have the following code snippet

                ToggleColumn::make('is_indexed')
                    ->label('Index?')
                    ->onColor('info')
                    ->beforeStateUpdated(function ($record, $state) {
                        
                        // Runs before the state is saved to the database.
                    })
                    ->afterStateUpdated(function ($record, $state) {
                        // Runs after the state is saved to the database.
                    })
                    ->visible(function ($record) {
                      dd($record->record_type);

                    })

                ToggleColumn::make('is_indexed')
                    ->label('Index?')
                    ->onColor('info')
                    ->beforeStateUpdated(function ($record, $state) {
                        
                        // Runs before the state is saved to the database.
                    })
                    ->afterStateUpdated(function ($record, $state) {
                        // Runs after the state is saved to the database.
                    })
                    ->visible(function ($record) {
                      dd($record->record_type);

                    })

In the

beforeStateUpdated

beforeStateUpdated

I can access $record - but within

visible

visible

I am unable to (i.e. generates an error - "Attempt to read property "record_type" on null"). I don't understand why $record isn't universally available to me - but accepting that's the case, how would I access the current record within the

visible

visible

method so that I can determine whether the toggle should be shown or not? thanks for your help! j

5 Replies

LeandroFerreira•4mo ago

You can’t determine the visibility of a column by a row try disabled instead

jjo63OP•4mo ago

I guess that would explain why $record isn't available as that must only apply to rows - what I was hoping to achieve was that if a column on the underlying db table had value 'X' then the toggle will be shown; else it will be hidden. Is that achievable (perhaps through another method)? Oh I see your reference to "disabled" as an alternative - I was hoping to hide it from view altogether (i.e. blank cell) on rows where it shouldn't be displayed.

Dennis Koch•4mo ago

Maybe you can get this to work via ->extraAttributes(fn ($record) => ['class' => 'class-that-targets-the-toggle']). Not sure whether that works with $record but worth a try

jjo63OP•4mo ago

Thanks for the tip Dennis. I wonder if it's a useful feature to support natively (i.e. ability to programatically show/hide a toggle on a row-by-row basis) - is there a process by which I would propose this as an enhancement?

Dennis Koch•4mo ago

We have GitHub discussions for that. In general Editable Columns are quite basic and we don't see too many requests related to them

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