GridField Bulk Editing Tools

SilverStripe 3 GridField component set to facilitate bulk image upload, bulk record editing, unlinking and deleting. Included are:

• Bulk Image Upload: Bulk images upload and on the fly fields editing
• Bulk Manager: Delete and unlink multiple records at once as well as editing records in bulk

Requirements

• SilverStripe 3.1 (version master / 1.+)
• Silverstripe 3.0 (version 0.5)

Development notes

The master branch will try to be compatible with the latest SilverStripe release/pre-release. Please submit pull request against the master branch. Older branches are kept for compatibility but may not be maintained.

Preview

More screenshots here.

Installation

• Download and copy module in SilverStripe root directory and name it whatever you want
• Run dev/build?flush=all to regenerate the manifest
• run ?flush=all in CMS to force the templates to regenerate

Bulk Image Upload

A component for uploading images in bulk into the managed Model relation, with option to edit fields on the fly.

Usage 1

Simplest usage, add the component to your GridField as below. The component will find the first Image has_one relation on the managed Model and the record's editable CMS fields

	$config->addComponent(new GridFieldBulkImageUpload());

Usage 2

You can specify which Image field to use and which fields are editable from the managed Model $fileRelationName (string): The name of the File/Image field to use (If your relation is set has 'MyImage' => 'Image', the parameter should be 'MyImage') $editableFields (array): list of db fields name as string that will be editable like: array('myTextField', 'myVarcharField', 'myEnumField')

	$config->addComponent(new GridFieldBulkImageUpload( $fileRelationName, $editableFields ));

Configuration

The component's option can be configurated individually or in bulk through the 'config' functions like this:

$config->getComponentByType('GridFieldBulkImageUpload')->setConfig( $reference, $value );

$config overview

The available configuration options are:

• 'fileRelationName' : sets the name of the File/Image field of the managed Model (i.e. 'MyImage')
• 'editableFields' : array of string referencing specific CMS fields available for editing
• 'fieldsClassBlacklist' : array of string referencing types (ClassName) of fields that wont be available for editing
• 'fieldsNameBlacklist' : array of string referencing the names of fields that wont be available for editing
• 'folderName' : name of the folder where the images should be uploaded
• 'sequentialUploads' : boolean, if true files will be uploaded one by one
• 'maxFileSize' : integer, maximum upload file size in bytes

Each option can be set through the component's method setConfig( $reference, $value ) In addition, some configuration option can be set more specifically via individual methods:

• addFieldNameToBlacklist( $fieldName )
• addClassToBlacklist( $className )
• removeFieldNameFromBlacklist( $fieldName )
• removeClassFromBlacklist( $className )

Bulk Manager

A component for Editing, deleting and unlinking records on the fly

Usage

Add GridFieldBulkEditingTools component if not done already and simply add GridFieldBulkImageUpload

	$config->addComponent(new GridFieldBulkManager());

Configuration

The component's option can be configurated individually or in bulk through the 'config' functions like this:

$config->getComponentByType('GridFieldBulkManager')->setConfig( $reference, $value );

$config overview

The available configuration options are:

• 'editableFields' : array of string referencing specific CMS fields available for editing
• 'fieldsClassBlacklist' : array of string referencing types (ClassName) of fields that wont be available for editing
• 'fieldsNameBlacklist' : array of string referencing the names of fields that wont be available for editing

Notes

• The Record edit form uses the Model's getCMSFields()

@TODO

Known bug

• When editing fields, if the last field of the edit form is a drop down or similar, the drop down menu is cropped off

Bulk Image Upload

• Add individual actions for each upload (update + cancel)
• Handle and display errors better for: creation, update, cancel
• Make it work not only for images but Files too