Populate select box options of a objectbrick, dynamically

Question

I have a class "groups", that have many objects. for example "All","Mobile","Watches".

We have select box in a objectbrick. we want to populate select box with the objects of "groups" class.

Answer 1

That is not possible out of the box but can be done with the help of this plugin: https://github.com/ThomasKeil/pimcore-plugin-DynamicDropdown

To install the plugin do these steps:

• within /plugins folder create a new folder called DynamicDropdown
• on this page https://github.com/ThomasKeil/pimcore-plugin-DynamicDropdown download the zip of the plugin
• extract contents of the zip to the folder created in the first step (so that the DynamicDropdown includes folders: controllers, lib, static, texts, views, ...)
• in the administration backend go to Tools (Wrench icon) > Extensions
• enable the plugin
• reload Pimcore backend
• go to ObjectBricks and add the DynamicDropdown field to the ObjectBrick
• in the field settings you should then pick the folder with objects that provide the options, the Object Class of the options and which method is used for the display values

I think the plugin config is pretty self-explanatory.

Answer 2

Pimcore X has this function out of the box. Just provide a class to 'Options Provider Class or Service Name:' property.

Sample:

public function getOptions($context, $fieldDefinition)
{
    $object = isset($context["object"]) ? $context["object"] : null;
    if (!$object) {
        return [];
    }
    $groups = $object->getGroups();        
    $result = [];
    foreach ($groups as $name => $group) {
        $result[] = ["key" => $group->getTitle() . ' (' . $name . ')', "value" => $name];
    }

    return $result;
}

if you need to get all allowedObjectBricks, which are coupled with current object using the field 'someObjectBricks', then try the following:

        $productBricks = $object->getSomeObjectBricks();
        $objectBricksNames = $productBricks->getAllowedBrickTypes();
        foreach ($objectBricksNames as $name) {
            try {
                $definitions = Objectbrick\Definition::getByKey($name);
            } catch (\Exception $e) {
                continue;
            }
        }

See the documentation https://pimcore.com/docs/pimcore/current/Development_Documentation/Objects/Object_Classes/Data_Types/Dynamic_Select_Types.html