Is it possible to have "checkbox" in the "edit view" section of a module in dashboard?

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• admin

  June 2014 edited 3:05AM

  In your module model, overwrite the generated field type for "visible" to be a checkbox like so:
  function form_fields($values = array(), $related = array()) { $fields = parent::form_fields($values, $related); $fields['visible'] = array('type' => 'checkbox', 'value' => 1); return $fields; }
• meysam

  June 2014 edited 3:05AM

  Thank you. This will always set the checkbox value to 1 though. What about when editing a guestbook comment whose visible field is set to 0? It will be checked when shown. How can I set the "value" of checkbox according to the value saved in the database?
• admin

  June 2014 edited 3:05AM

  I'm not quite sure I follow. Checkbox values should not change (unless you are using javascript) and they only pass data in the $_POST if they are checked. In this case, if checked, the value of 1 would be passed to your boolean field in the database. If not checked, there is no value passed in the post and so the default value will show. If you are wanting a different value passed in the post, I'd recommend using an enum. Or you can use a model hook like "on_before_save" to manipulate the values to save:
  http://docs.getfuelcms.com/general/models#hooks
  
  You can also set in the model the following to allow you to toggle the visibility from the list view:
  public $boolean_fields = array('visible');
• meysam

  June 2014 edited June 2014

  This is what I meant in more details: Suppose that I click on an item in the list view to edit it. And the visibility of this item in database is already set to 1, so I expect in the edit view the visibility chechbox be checked, to indicate its current value in database. The problem is no matter what the value of the 'visibility' field is in database for a specific record, the checkbox of that item is never chechek when editing it. Surprisingly, the above line of code in your last comment fixed this issue! After adding the following line to the model:

  public $boolean_fields = array('visible');

  the checkbox is checked for visible items and unchecked for invisible ones when editing them. How did this line fix the problem?
• admin

  June 2014 edited 3:05AM

  Because checkboxes will not send anything over in the $_POST if unchecked, FUEL needs to check the model to see if a boolean field has been identified, and if so, will treat no $_POST variable value as simply a $_POST['visible'] = 0. It does this around line 1404 in the fuel/modules/fuel/controllers/module.php file.