The admin comes with a basic global search available in the upper navigation menu. The search iterates over admin class
and look for filter with the option global_search set to true. If you are using the SonataDoctrineORMBundle
any text filter will be set to true by default.
The main action is using the template SonataAdminBundle:Core:search.html.twig. And each search is handled by a
block, the template for the block is SonataAdminBundle:Block:block_search_result.html.twig.
The default template values can be configured in the configuration section
sonata_admin:
templates:
# other configuration options
search: SonataAdminBundle:Core:search.html.twig
search_result_block: SonataAdminBundle:Block:block_search_result.html.twig
You also need to configure the block in the sonata block config
sonata_block:
blocks:
sonata.admin.block.search_result:
contexts: [admin]
You can also configure the block template per admin while defining the admin:
<service id="sonata.admin.post" class="Acme\DemoBundle\Admin\PostAdmin">
<tag name="sonata.admin" manager_type="orm" group="Content" label="Post"/>
<argument />
<argument>Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Post</argument>
<argument />
<call method="setTemplate">
<argument>search_result_block</argument>
<argument>SonataPostBundle:Block:block_search_result.html.twig</argument>
</call>
</service>
The current implementation can be expensive if you have a lot of entities as the resulting query does a LIKE %query% OR LIKE %query%...
There is a work in progress to use an async javascript solution to better load data from the database.
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