Custom Tailor field with many to many relation to regular model

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#1

Hi, in this previous question (Use Rainlab.Blog category in my tailor blueprint) I wondered how to link a rainlab category to my tailor blueprint. However, my need has evolved to a many to many relation (my tailor blueprint entries need to have many categories). So I guess my best bet is to build a custom field. It was a little bit hard for me to find something equivalent in the docs or in the forum. Could someone point me something that would help me for this ? Thanks!

#2

Hi @hms

The documentation covers this here:

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#3

Thanks for your answer! One thing that is for example not covered by the doc in my case is, how do I provide a list of elements for the backend form field? Iā€™m stuck at the moment with the error saying that there is no getCategoryOptions method for the category field. Any help appreciated on this! Thanks!

#4

Actually found this one. In the field definition, the form field options are defined using options() method.

public function defineFormField(FormElement $form, $context = null)
    {
        $form->addFormField($this->fieldName, $this->label)->useConfig($this->config)->displayAs('dropdown')->options(
            //options array goes here
        );
    }
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#5

Yes, this is the way. Perfect!