Disable line buttons as dropdown if only 1 button is available

[susanu]

Hi guys,

I really like the line dropdown with all action buttons but would be cool to disable it if only 1 button is shown.

Thank you!

[jcastroa87]

Hello @susanu

You can set the behaivor of line buttons as our docs says.

You can set it as global or for any controller.

Cheers.

[susanu]

Hi @jcastroa87,

I know i can do that, i just suggested that would be cool to automatically disable if only 1 button is visible.

Cheers

[pxpm]

Hey @susanu thanks for the suggestion.

I think I get the idea, having like a "threshold" for displaying the buttons as dropdown.
Like only show as dropdown if there are 2 or more items.

I think it's an interesting use-case. I've also thought about other scenario, that would be to have some buttons that never go to the dropdown, or you want to always display 2 buttons and any remaining in a dropdown.

I don't think we are going to invest time on this for the time being, but I would happily review a PR in case it doesn't make a total mess of this feature.

Talking specifically about what you required, most of the work is done in https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/blob/6141ed3ffdd3a828fa7a07a0183c7daac98c8aec/src/resources/views/crud/inc/datatables_logic.blade.php#L405

I think we can introduce a new operation setting like: lineButtonsDropdownThreshold = 1 (so by default we keep the same behavior).

Let me know if you need my help with something 🙏

Cheers

[susanu]

Hi @pxpm,

Just created a pull request here: Laravel-Backpack/CRUD#5568

Thank you!

[jcastroa87]

Great, thanks a lot. We will continue conversation there.

Cheers