I need to group resources somehow

[vitaly107]

Say I want to display only links to resources in a certain group.

How can I tag/label a resource and then pick only resources with that label?

Or just group them somehow and then pick up a bunch by a group name.

Many thanks

[adrianthedev]

Hi Vitaly,

Not sure I see what you mean.

Like if you have a Post resource you'd like to have two pages displaying posts? On one page some posts and on another, other posts.
Something like that?

[vitaly107]

I want to display links to certain groups of resources/models on different custom dashboards, for example on customer services dashboard I want to display Users, addresses and something else and on Marketing dashboard I want to display Page, Foter Options and so on.

so I need a way to group resources and then iterate only through a specific group to create navigation links to resources in that group

[vitaly107]

in other words instead of showing all the resources using

 <%# Avo::App.resources_navigation(_current_user).each do |resource| %>
            <%#= render Avo::NavigationLinkComponent.new label: resource.name.pluralize.humanize, path: resources_path(resource.model_class) %>
          <%# end %>

I want to show/iterate ove one group only in one page and a different group on a different page.

So I need to do something that go into a particular resource and label it as 'Marketing Stuff and the a different resource as 'Customer stuff

If there no way to label or tag as yet then please give me a clue how to groupd them and then refer to the group / iterate of a group of resources not all of them. Cheers!

[vitaly107]

In other words how to use this

 <% Avo::App.resources_navigation(_current_user).each do |resource| %>
            <%= render Avo::NavigationLinkComponent.new label: resource.name.pluralize.humanize, path: resources_path(resource.model_class) %>
          <% end %>

only with certain group of resources?

[adrianthedev]

So, if you haven't already, you should eject the sidebar view to take control of the items shown in the sidebar. Then you create the rules you want.

If you do this items = Avo::App.resources_navigation(_current_user) you then have an array of sidebar items that you can rename/rearrange/hide & show.
You can transform that array into a hash and put it back in the sidebar.

Then you can add them back to your sidebar like so:

items.each do |label, resource| %>
  <%= render Avo::NavigationLinkComponent.new label: label, path: resources_path(resource.model_class) %>
<% end %>

So in essence you should do something like this:

items = Avo::App.resources_navigation(_current_user)

# manipulate items while transforming it into a hash with the desired label
# ex:
items = items.map do |resource|
  if resource.name === 'User" && SOME_OTHER_CONDITION
	return ['Marketing', resource]
  end
  [resource.name.pluralize.humanize, resource]
end.to_h

items.each do |label, resource| %>
  <%= render Avo::NavigationLinkComponent.new label: label, path: resources_path(resource.model_class) %>
<% end %>

[vitaly107]

Thanks

[adrianthedev]

Sure! Glad to be of help!