I'm trying to get a relation field to always be 'empty' by default, as of now, I setup a 'belongsTo' relationship, but everytime I create a new record in the database, it displays the first item in the list, although not selecting the actual id for the relation.

I tried setting the 'emptyMessage' option to the field, but I still get the text displayed.

I want this field to be optional (can be empty) so I set it as nullable in the database, and not required.

I'm trying to set an 'optional parent field', so the relation is to the same model:

public $belongsTo = [
    'optionalselect' => ['Victor\Test\Models\OptionalSelect'],
];

in fields.yaml the related information is:

fields:
 optionalselect:
  label: 'optional select'
  span: full
  type: relation
  emptyMessage: 'empty'

Is there an implemented way to do this? Am I doing something wrong?

Last updated 8 years ago

Self-answering myself, what I was looking for was the 'placeholder' or 'emptyOption' option, as described in the documentation in the Backends->Forms->DropDown section ( http://octobercms.com/docs/backend/forms#field-dropdown) .

 placeholder: 'Select parent'

or

 emptyOnly: 'Select parent'

Last updated 8 years ago