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Fields ​

Fields are the backbone of a Resource. Through fields you tell Avo what to fetch from the database and how to display it on the Index, Show, and Edit views.

Avo ships with various simple fields like text, textarea, number, password, boolean, select, and more complex ones like markdown, key_value, trix, tags, and code.

Declaring fields ​

You add fields to a resource through the fields method using the field DATABASE_COLUMN, as: FIELD_TYPE, **FIELD_OPTIONS notation.

ruby
def fields
  field :name, as: :text
end

The name property is the column in the database where Avo looks for information or a property on your model.

That will add a few fields in your new Avo app.

On the Index and Show views, we'll get a new text column of that record's database value. Finally, on the Edit and New views, we will get a text input field that will display & update the name field on that model.

Field conventions ​

When we declare a field, we pinpoint the specific database row for that field. Usually, that's a snake case value.

Each field has a label. Avo will convert the snake case name to a humanized version. In the following example, the is_available field will render the label as Is available.

ruby
field :is_available, as: :boolean
Field naming convention

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If having the fields stacked one on top of another is not the right layout, try the resource-sidebar.

A more complex example ​

ruby
class Avo::Resources::User < Avo::BaseResource
  def fields
    field :id, as: :id
    field :first_name, as: :text
    field :last_name, as: :text
    field :email, as: :text
    field :active, as: :boolean
    field :cv, as: :file
    field :is_admin?, as: :boolean
  end
end

The fields method is already hydrated with the current_user, params, request, view_context, and context variables so you can use them to conditionally show/hide fields

ruby
class Avo::Resources::User < Avo::BaseResource
  def fields
    field :id, as: :id
    field :first_name, as: :text
    field :last_name, as: :text
    field :email, as: :text
    field :is_admin?, as: :boolean
    field :active, as: :boolean

    if current_user.is_admin?
      field :cv, as: :file
    end
  end
end

Field Types ​