[Feature Request] Corresponding column type for each field type

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Feature Request

What's the feature you think Backpack should have?

Every time you use a field type, it'd be awesome to know there's a corresponding column type... with the same name and the same definition. At first for it to be more intuitive... but later maybe even to be able to define both in one go.

Have you already implemented a prototype solution, for your own project?

No

Do you see this as a core feature or an add-on?

Core

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The question is... does this even make sense? Will it not be even more confusing, to have a column type named checkbox for example... that doesn't actually show a checkbox? Or a column named select2 that doesn't actually show a select2?

Food for thought...

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Let's see what the fields are, and how their corresponding columns are named (if a column for that field even exists):

FREE Field	Column
checkbox	🟨 boolean & check (but none with the same name)
checklist	🟥
checklist_dependency	🟥
color	🟥
custom_html	⛔️
date	✅
datetime	✅
email	✅
enum	🟨 text
hidden	🟨 text / number
month	🟨 text / number
number	✅
password	🟨 text?!
radio	🟨 text/number
range	🟨 text/number
select (1-n relationship)	✅
select_grouped	🟨 select
select_multiple (n-n relationship)	✅
select_from_array	✅
summernote	🟨 text
text	✅
textarea	✅
time	🟨 text
upload	✅
upload_multiple	✅
url	🟨 text
view	⛔️
week	🟨 text

PRO Field	Column
address_algolia	🟥
address_google	🟥
browse	🟨 text
browse_multiple	🟨 upload_multiple
base64_image	🟨 image
ckeditor	🟨 text
color_picker	🟥
date_range	🟥
date_picker	🟨 date
datetime_picker	🟨 datetime
easymde	🟨 markdown
icon_picker	🟥
image	✅
relationship	✅
repeatable	🟥
select2 (1-n relationship)	🟨 select
select2_multiple (n-n relationship)	🟨 select_multiple
select2_nested	🟨 select
select2_grouped	🟨 select
select_and_order	🟥
select2_from_array	🟨 select_from_array
select2_from_ajax	🟨 select
select2_from_ajax_multiple	🟨 select_multiple
table	🟥
tinymce	🟨 text
video	🟥
wysiwyg	🟥 text

[tabacitu]

Update: @munjaldevelopment has started working on this in:

• https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/pull/4675
• https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/PRO/pull/91

[tabacitu]

Let's close this issue, we'll continue the conversation in those two PRs and the PR to demo - https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/demo/pull/430