Question about Form builder and Form views

[undersound]

First of all thanks for your wonderful work!
It really is a delight working with it from both a dev and end user perspective.

My questions:

1. On Version 3.0.0-rc4 I started making modules without the --bladeForm option(https://twill.io/docs/3.x/form-fields/) but since I need to use conditional fields and the sidebar option I want to use the the old form view method. I removed the getForm function from web/app/Http/Controllers/Twill/PageController.php and created a form.blade.php in web/resources/views/admin/pages/form.blade.php but I don't see my body field showing up at admin/pages/1/edit Is there more to it?

2. I am bit confused about which syntaxt to use for i.e. an input field form.blade.php.

Is it
@formField('input', [ 'name' => 'subtitle', 'label' => 'Subtitle', 'maxlength' => 100, 'required' => true, 'note' => 'Hint message goes here', 'placeholder' => 'Placeholder goes here', ])

or

<x-twill::input name="subtitle" label="Subtitle" :maxlength="100" :required="true" note="Hint message goes here" placeholder="Placeholder goes here" />

or are both possible?

Thanks in advance for any guidance

[iedex]

Hi,

1. Try moving web/resources/views/admin/pages/form.blade.php to web/resources/views/twill/pages/form.blade.php
2. Both should work

[undersound]

1. 😬 left over copy paste operation from 2.x project
2. ok

Thanks!

[ifox]

Hi @undersound you can actually use the sidebar with controller based forms, and you can use the BladePartial "field" for the part of your form where you need conditional fields. Up to you if you want to mix both approaches or not though!

[undersound]

Thanks @ifox !

Is it helpful to make a PR to update the 3.x docs then or are there still form views methods not supported?

This method will still continue to receive improvements as it does not yet support all the features that the form views method has such as fieldset, sidebars and conditional fields.

https://twill.io/docs/3.x/form-fields/#using-form-views

[ifox]

That's on my to-do list to update before the stable release! Thanks for flagging. Happy to review a PR of you have time.

[ifox]

Fieldsets and sidebar fields are supported in the form builder, only conditional fields are not at this point.