Relationship Names, NULLS and Date Formats

[arjasco]

• Laravel Version: 5.7.9
• Nova Version: 1.1.4
• PHP Version: 7.2.3

Description:

I sent a support email over a week ago but had no reply so checking if anyone can help here or knows a workaround.

There is a couple of bugs that i have come across which would be great to get sorted. These are inconsistencies i can live with as a developer but nova is going to be extremely useful for internal staff to manage the data for a bespoke customer front-facing build. These inconsistencies will be confusing to these non developers.

1. NULL relationships are possible and they do work if you just hit save without selecting an item from a relationship dropdown. However if a selection is made there is no way to revert back to a "None" option. Could this be a configuration option? something like ->nullable('None Label') on the field type?

2. Changing relationship labels only reflects on index and details screens. .eg a User relationship might exist but in business logic it is something completely different.. "Booked By", "Added By", "Sales Person" etc. Which would represent a user. Here I have a Organisation which can have a Parent Organisation (nullable too, which relates back to point 1).

3. Setting a date format only reflects on index and details screen. This is confusing, especially those from countries that don't use the Y-M-D format. While building the form elements i genuinely thought the ->format() method was doing nothing till I noticed it only applies on the index/details screens.

Steps To Reproduce:

Add a relationship field to a Resource (in this case BelongsTo) with a different name by setting the additional attributes in this case the underlying resource is Organisation

BelongsTo::make('Parent Organisation', 'parent', self::class),

Organisation model parent relationship:

public function parent()
{
    return $this->belongsTo(Organisation::class, 'parent_id');
}

See that name only reflects on index/details and the dropdown field itself, also see no option to revert back to a nullable state.

Add a date field with a custom moment.js format

Date::make('Date')->format('DD/MMM/YYYY')->sortable(),

See that format only reflects on index/details

[satoved]

1. NULL issue can be currently fixed with ->searchchable() on the field. I hope bugfix will appear in the next version.

[reinink]

NULL issue related issues: #308 #89

[davidhemphill]

Closing duplicate of #89. Please make a new issue for the second issue.