How do you customize the title of admin pages?

[subdigital]

I have a model called Activity. How do I get the title to display Editing #{instance.name} instead of the generic "Editing Activity" without writing my own `resource/show.html.erb?

I looked for a hook for this and didn't see if this was possible.

[spohlenz]

As you've found, it's not currently possible to change the title in this way without editing the template file (the only way would be to add some custom translations to your i18n .yml files which wouldn't get you the level of customization you need anyway).

However this is very high on my list of priorities, along with changing the default breadcrumbs. Expect to see something on this within the next week.

[jfrux]

Does the content_for()'s found in the templates now a days work for this? or is this still an issue?

[spohlenz]

For now, setting titles via cloning templates and using content_for is still the best solution.

However I am right now working on a new API for defining toolbars, which will lead directly into the new actions API. Once that's in place, only extreme customizations will require overriding the templates.

[jfrux]

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[jfrux]

I'm not experienced enough with content_for() to figure out how to make use of that method... but did end up realizing it was the show.html.erb that was responsible fro the record titles, not the edit or new.

[jfrux]

Any updates in this space? Trying to customize the "human name" for a model which in turn would change the title of a dialog

[say8425]

@jfrux what is human name? Can you say more detailedly?

[karan-ta]

i am on 0.8.12

can i change title of the form for the "new route"

i saw the code says New

I want it to be someothing other than model name for one of the resource/admin

[gitjul]

hi:) I know this is a bit stale, but is there still no way to customise not only the titles but also labels for resources?

[quantavi]

I know it is "a bit" to late, but I leave this for future references: You can modify your yml file with translations (i.e. en.yml) and add something like this:

en:
  admin:
     authority_cards:
        breadcrumbs:
          index: "Authority Cards"
        titles:
          index: "List of Authority cards"

where authority_cards is the name of the resource. This way you can customise all admin pages

Restarting servers is required/advisable after modification if the translations are not loaded

EDIT: Turns out that this work only for index. To override other actions you need to duplicate the templates show.html.erb and edit.html.erb

[vizcay]

So still there isn't a way to make this dynamic other than replacing the whole view, right?

[vizcay]

So this is what I was able to do so far:

1) Copy app/views/trestle/resource/index.html.erb from the gem sources and customize the beginning of the file:

<%
  content_for(
    :title,
    admin.respond_to?(:custom_index_title) ?
      admin.custom_index_title :
      admin.t("titles.index", default: "Listing %{pluralized_model_name}")
  )
%>

2) Define in your admin:

Trestle.resource(:credentials) do
  admin.define_method(:custom_index_title) do
    title = 'Credentials'
    if @context.params[:lock_id]
      title += " for #{Lock.find(@context.params[:lock_id]).serial_number}"
    end
    title
  end
end

@spohlenz will you be interested into a PR to do?

Trestle.resource(:name) do
  index_title do # self = admin or self = Admin::Controller ?
    # ...
  end
end