ModelAdmin in SilverStripe 2.3

ModelAdmin SilverStripe’s great new tool for building CRMs (and other things) Monday, March 2, 2009

We develop a CMS Monday, March 2, 2009

We do other stu too! • Most of our sites include a CMS • But also: CRM, event management, e-commerce, internal business systems • The CMS paradigm doesn’t ﬁt all of these Monday, March 2, 2009

Let’s build a CRM! • We’ve made CRMs for SilverStripe ... several, in fact • Each time we had a “CRM” customer, it seemed that they wanted something dierent Monday, March 2, 2009

Flexible Data, Fixed UI • Clients are very speciﬁc about data and business logic • But not about user interface - as long as it’s good, they’re happy • SilverStripe CMS exploits this by making it easy to create new Page Types with custom ﬁelds Monday, March 2, 2009

From CMS to DMS • Can we apply this concept to CRM? • Don’t just manage Content • Manage any kind of Data Monday, March 2, 2009

ModelAdmin • Data Management built into SilverStripe • ModelAdmin gives you a CRUD interface around any data: Search, Results, Detail • Same building blocks as CMS interface Monday, March 2, 2009

ModelAdmin • Search on ﬁelds linked by relations • Detail record gives you a scaolded interface for editing all relations Monday, March 2, 2009

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Code Demo Monday, March 2, 2009

Random example: A small webhosting company with products, customers and contracts * Web2.0iﬁed by http:// creatr.cc Monday, March 2, 2009

Our Datamodel HostingContrac Customer HostingType t has_many has_one Monday, March 2, 2009

HostingType <?php class HostingType extends DataObject { static $db = array( 'Title' => 'Text', 'Description' => 'Text', 'Price' => 'Float', ); static $has_many = array( 'HostingContracts' => 'HostingContract', ); } ?> mysite/code/HostingType.php Monday, March 2, 2009

HostingType Monday, March 2, 2009

HostingContract <?php class HostingContract extends DataObject { static $db = array( 'ContractNumber' => 'Varchar', 'StartDate' => 'Date', 'EndDate' => 'Date' ); static $has_one = array( 'Customer' => 'Customer', 'HostingType' => 'HostingType', ); } ?> mysite/code/HostingContract.php Monday, March 2, 2009

HostingContract Monday, March 2, 2009

Customer <?php class Customer extends Member { static $db = array( 'CustomerType' => quot;Enum('Private,Business','Private')quot; ); static $has_one = array( 'Avatar' => 'Image', ); static $has_many = array( 'HostingContracts' => 'HostingContract' ); } ?> mysite/code/Customer.php Monday, March 2, 2009

Monday, March 2, 2009

MyCRMAdmin <?php class MyCRMAdmin extends ModelAdmin { protected static $managed_models = array( 'Customer', 'HostingContract', 'HostingType' ); static $url_segment = 'mycrm'; // will be linked as /admin/mycrm static $menu_title = 'My CRM'; } ?> mysite/code/MyCRMAdmin.php Monday, March 2, 2009

Some tweaking... Monday, March 2, 2009

Summary Fields <?php class Customer extends Member { // ... static $summary_fields = array( 'FirstName', 'Surname', 'CustomerType' ); } ?> Monday, March 2, 2009

Searchable Fields <?php class Customer extends Member { // ... static $searchable_fields = array( 'FirstName', 'Surname', 'HostingContracts.ContractNumber' ); } ?> Monday, March 2, 2009

getCMSFields() <?php class Customer extends Member { // ... function getCMSFields() { $fields = parent::getCMSFields(); $fields->removeByName('Locale'); return $fields; } } ?> Monday, March 2, 2009

Using Data on Monday, March 2, 2009

SilverStripe 2.4 and beyond • New data mapper • Thinner, reusable controllers • “Intelligent data” Monday, March 2, 2009

Thank you Download this talk at: http://www.slideshare.net/chillu/modeladmin-in-silverstripe-23 Code (requires SilverStripe 2.3+) http://silverstripe.org/assets/presentations/2009-02-28- modeladminpresentationmysite.zip Ingo Schommer, SilverStripe Ltd., ingo@silverstripe.com License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/nz/ Monday, March 2, 2009

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ModelAdmin in SilverStripe 2.3

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