In rails_admin, how do I turn off the "add new" and "edit" button in relation sub-foms?

Question

I want to stop people adding or editing Page Layout from inside a sub form. Basically I want to turn off the buttons in the below screenshot:

Am I able to do this, or do I have to turn off adding and editing on the entire Page Layout model globally?

Nog

Answer 1

Probably a bit late but you can use inline_add and inline_edit.

Example:

  field :profile do
    inline_add false
    inline_edit false
  end

Tinsley

This is very nice. Is there any way to do it for all fields? – Beedon

Answer 2

Use button_to with :disabled => true option

Churchlike

Answer 3

Maybe not the cleanest solution... anyway here's what i did. Created an alternative partial copying the original one and stripping off the links related to "add new" and "edit". Then I configured the field like this.

  field :operator_user do
    partial "form_filtering_select_no-relations"
    def selected_id
      @bindings[:object]['operator_user_id']
    end
  end

The partial expects a method called "selected_id" to be there and return the id used to build the relation.

Durga

Answer 4

Supposing you are talking about authorizing a specific type of user to "see" the buttons you can go with the cancan gem.

Choriocarcinoma

Yeah I found cancan, but I thought it might be overkill. I just want to turn off those particular buttons for all users. – Nog

For all users? why don't you just remove the buttons then? – Choriocarcinoma

Yep that's what I'm asking how to do! – Nog

Go the that page view and remove the buttons. Also remove the routes so no one can call the actions. – Choriocarcinoma

any other solutions except cancan? – Hendley