Nova Notes Field

This Laravel Nova package adds a notes field to Nova's arsenal of fields.

Features

• Notes field on Detail view
• Differentiation between user-added and system-added notes
• Ability to add notes through the UI or programmatically
• Ability to delete user-made notes (w/ confirmation modal)
• Customizable placeholder support
• Set ability to hide or show the 'Add Note' button

Screenshots

Installation

# Install the package via Composer
composer require optimistdigital/nova-notes-field

# Run automatically loaded migration(s)
php artisan migrate

Usage

Add HasNotes trait to the model that has the notes:

use OptimistDigital\NovaNotesField\Traits\HasNotes;

class ExampleModel extends Model
{
    use HasNotes;
}

Add NotesField to the matching resource:

use OptimistDigital\NovaNotesField\NotesField;

class SomeResource extends Resource
{
  // ...

  public function fields(Request $request)
  {
    return [
      // ...
      NotesField::make('Notes')
        ->placeholder('Add note') // Optional
        ->addingNotesEnabled(false) // Optional
        ->fullWidth(), // Optional
    ]
  }
}

Adding notes programmatically

To add notes programmatically, use the method provided by the HasNotes trait:

/**
 * Creates a new note and attaches it to the model.
 *
 * @param string $note The note text which can contain raw HTML.
 * @param bool $user Enables or disables the use of `Auth::user()` to set as the creator.
 * @param bool $system Defines whether the note is system created and can be deleted or not.
 * @return \OptimistDigital\NovaNotesField\Models\Note
 **/
public function addNote($note, $user = true, $system = true)

Configuration

Publish configuration

You can publish the configuration by running:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OptimistDigital\NovaNotesField\FieldServiceProvider" --tag="config"

The available configuration option(s):

Config	Type	description
get_avatar_url	callable	Callable which allows you to generate your own URL for the user. The input parameter is the user model. By default, Gravatar is used for the user's avatars.
table_name	string	Optionally provide your own table name for the notes table. Default is nova_notes.
notes_model	string	Optionally provide your own Note model.
date_format	string	Optionally provide custom moment.js compatible date format.
use_trix_input	boolean	Optionally enable Trix WYSIWYG input by setting this to true.
full_width_inputs	boolean	Optionally force all notes fields to display in full width.
display_order	string	Optionally set the sort order for notes. Default is DESC.

Custom delete authorization

By default, only the user that wrote the note can delete it and no one can delete system notes.

You can define which user(s) can delete which notes by defining a new Laravel authorization Gate called delete-nova-note.

In your AuthServiceProvider.php add a Gate definition like so:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate;
use OptimistDigital\NovaNotesField\Models\Note;

// ...

public function boot()
{
  Gate::define('delete-nova-note', function ($user, Note $note) {
    // Do whatever here, ie:
    return $note->created_by === $user->id || $user->isAdmin;
  });
}

Localization

The translation file(s) can be published by using the following publish command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OptimistDigital\NovaNotesField\FieldServiceProvider" --tag="translations"

You can add your translations to resources/lang/vendor/nova-notes-field/ by creating a new translations file with the locale name (ie se.json) and copying the JSON from the existing en.json.

Publishing migrations (optional)

If you want to edit the migration(s), you can publish the migrations like so:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OptimistDigital\NovaNotesField\FieldServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

Credits

• Tarvo Reinpalu

License

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.