Enable a field to be displayes as another field on a different view

[adrianthedev]

Feature

It's common to use two fields to display the same data in different views.

Example:

  field :status, as: :select, show_on: :forms, ...options
  field :status, as: :badge,  hide_on: :forms, ...options

Maybe there's an API to make this available without duplicating the fields.

Current workarounds

Using two fields.

[sedubois]

Currently what feels like a bug is that badge fields, in my tests at least, don't appear on the form page. It just acts as if hide_on: :forms had been put on the field.

So as the OP describes, my workaround is to have two fields: select for edit and badge for show/index.

A related field is the tags field which is also a kind of select but looks nicer than the drop-down select and allows specifying values with the keyboard. The difference is that this one allows selecting several values at once.

Ideally I want all of this at once:

• have different colors for different values like in the badge field
• have the UX and ease of selection of the tags field
• have the ability to restrict to one single value like in the selct field

There would be options on the field to specify whether one or several values are accepted, what are the allowed values, and what color each of these values should have.

[Paul-Bob]

Hello @sedubois thanks for your feedback!

Badge fields are intentionally hidden on forms as referenced on the docs

The Badge field is intended to be displayed only on Index and Show views.
https://docs.avohq.io/3.0/fields/badge.html#description

@adrianthedev WDYT about this API where a select field behave as badge on display views:
field :status, as: :select, display_as: :badge

It can be implemented on base field making it available for all fields.

Lets focus on this 2 points later:

• have different colors for different values like in the badge field
• the UX and ease of selection of the tags field

About this last point

• the ability to restrict to one single value like in the selct field

This can be achieved by using the mode: :select option: https://docs.avohq.io/3.0/fields/tags.html#mode

[sedubois]

Thanks Paul for the pointers and yes, a new API would be welcome. For what it's worth I don't find the plural tags name very intuitive for single values. But good to know it's possible.