Add support for changing form field labels. #755
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| options[:label] || attribute.to_s.humanize.capitalize | |||
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What if we allowed the overriding but didn't attempt to figure out the label name from the attribute if the option was missing and instead just returned nil? Then we can continue to let the form builder handle the unspecified case.
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Sure, that would work as well - I don't think there's any reason to do it this way (other than that it is explicit).
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What kinds of specs would you think would be useful for this change? |
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I'd like this ability, too. However, I'd prefer if we used the existing i18n paradigm so that if we specify it in en.yml for a field to override a table header, that same override would get applied to the form field. Like this PR, it's a trivial change and I've done it in a fork that I'm maintaining. Happy to provide the code if that's helpful, but it's just a copy and paste of the i18n query from the collection partial's table header lookup. |
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Thank you for the help. Since this PR was suggested, we've added the ability to customize the field labels with I18n. You can find the documentation for this at https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/blob/master/docs/customizing_dashboards.md#defining-labels |
I found myself wanting to change the labels associated with form fields, which are often good for programmers and maybe not so good for administrators. The syntax looks like so: