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DOC Document new SingleRecordAdmin class #609

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---
title: ModelAdmin
summary: Create admin UI's for managing your data records.
title: Managing Multiple Records
summary: Create admin UI's for managing multiple records at once with ModelAdmin
---

# ModelAdmin
# Managing multiple records

[ModelAdmin](api:SilverStripe\Admin\ModelAdmin) provides a simple way to utilize the Silverstripe CMS UI with your own data models. It can create
[ModelAdmin](api:SilverStripe\Admin\ModelAdmin) provides a simple way to manage multiple records at once with your own data models. It can create
searchables list and edit views of [DataObject](api:SilverStripe\ORM\DataObject) subclasses, and even provides import and export of your data.

It uses the framework's knowledge about the model to provide sensible defaults, allowing you to get started in a couple
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---
title: Single-record Admin Sections
summary: Create admin UI's for managing a single record with SingleRecordAdmin
---

# Single-record admin sections

The [`SingleRecordAdmin`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\SingleRecordAdmin) class lets you create an admin section which presents an edit form for a single record. Unlike [`ModelAdmin`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\ModelAdmin), there's no UI mechanism in a `SingleRecordAdmin` to swap what record you're editing.

The main use cases for using `SingleRecordAdmin` are for a settings section (where a single record holds all the settings needed for that section), or editing a record that is unique for each signed-in user (such as that user's profile).

```php
namespace App\Admin;

use App\Model\MySettingsModel;
use SilverStripe\Admin\SingleRecordAdmin;

class MySettingsAdmin extends SingleRecordAdmin
{
private static $url_segment = 'my-settings';

private static $menu_title = 'My Settings';

private static $model_class = MySettingsModel::class;
}
```

This admin section will fetch a record of the `MySettingsModel` class using the [`get_one()`](api:SilverStripe\ORM\DataObject::get_one()) method.

If you don't want the admin section to fetch your record in this way, you can set the [`only_one_record`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\SingleRecordAdmin->only_one_record) configuration property to false. In this case you must provide another way for the admin section to know which record to edit. This could be in the form of a separate action on the controller (e.g. `edit/$ID`), or by calling [`setCurrentPageID()`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\LeftAndMain::setCurrentPageID()) in the [`init()`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\LeftAndMain::init()) method of the controller.

If there's no record to edit, by default it will create one for you. To disable that behaviour, set the [`allow_new_record`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\SingleRecordAdmin->allow_new_record) configuration property to false.

> [!NOTE]
> If you need more complex behaviour to fetch your record, for example you use the `silverstripe/subsites` or `tractorcow/silverstripe-fluent` module, you could either override the [`getSingleRecord()`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\SingleRecordAdmin::getSingleRecord()) method, or you could create [an extension](/developer_guides/extending/extensions/) that implements the `augmentSQL()` extension hook.
>
> The latter option is the most flexible, as it affects all high-level ORM queries for your model which ensures consistency when fetching the record from other areas of your code.

For records that hold settings, it's common to provide a static method to get the current settings record. Below is a basic example.

```php
namespace App\Model;

use SilverStripe\ORM\DataObject;

class MySettingsModel extends DataObject
{
// ...

/**
* Get the current settings record
*/
public static function currentRecord(): MySettingsModel
{
$record = MySettingsModel::get_one();
if (!$record) {
$record = SiteConfig::create();
$record->write(skipValidation: true);
}
return $record;
}
}
```
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- [`SudoModeController`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\SudoModeController) - used to be a subclass of `LeftAndMain`.
- [`CMSExternalLinksController`](api:SilverStripe\ExternalLinks\Controllers\CMSExternalLinksController) - used to be a direct subclass of [`Controller`](api:SilverStripe\Control\Controller).

#### New `SingleRecordAdmin` class and changes to `SiteConfig` {#leftandmain-singlerecordadmin}

A new [`SingleRecordAdmin`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\SingleRecordAdmin) class has been created which makes it easier to create an admin section for editing a single record.

This is the new super class for [`SiteConfigLeftAndMain`](api:SilverStripe\SiteConfig\SiteConfigLeftAndMain) and [`CMSProfileController`](api:SilverStripe\Admin\CMSProfileController). Some of the CSS selectors that had been added to the edit forms in those classes are no longer avaialable - if you were using CSS selectors in those admin sections, you may need to change the way you're handling that.

As part of this change, we have removed the `updateCurrentSiteConfig` extension hook on [`SiteConfig`](api:SilverStripe\SiteConfig\SiteConfig) and updated the `canDelete()` permissions on `SiteConfig` to explicitly return `false` by default, even for administrators.
The `getCMSActions()` method of `SiteConfig` also no longer returns the save action, as that is handled by the controller which instantiates the edit form. Other actions added through `getCMSActions()` (e.g. if you added them through an extension) will still be included.

### Changes to password validation {#password-validation}

#### `PasswordValidator` changes
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