Filament•3mo ago

Import Action: Import data for the belongsTo relationship without having foreign_id in CSV itself?

I need to import a CSV for the resource that belongsTo to another resource eg: I have a company and I need to import the staff for that company. But reading the document for the import, the only way we can do that is by having the company_id in the CSV itself. Is there a way to pass the company_id by ourselves in the Importer?

Solution:

I have solved it using the options method that ImportAction provides (it was staring right at me in the docs 😅) https://filamentphp.com/docs/3.x/actions/prebuilt-actions/import#using-import-options First I used the mutateFormDataUsing ofActions and passed id there and fetched that using the getOptions of the importer, which worked but I was still not satisfied and remembered that there are the options in the docs too and I was doing something extra. I just opened the doc tab I had already opened and there it was. Well it is always good to try many possibilities 😝...

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vanhellsing101•3mo ago

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Bonux•3mo ago

@vanhellsing101 can you show me an example of how you did this?

vanhellsing101•3mo ago

Sure, ImportAction

   ImportAction::make()
                ->importer(StaffImporter::class)
                ->options([
                    'client_id'   => //data you need pass,
                ]),

   ImportAction::make()
                ->importer(StaffImporter::class)
                ->options([
                    'client_id'   => //data you need pass,
                ]),

In the Importer you can now access the client_id using $this->options['client_id'] example in resolveRecord method

    public function resolveRecord(): ?Staff
    {
        $client_id = $this->options['client_id'];

        return Staff::firstOrNew([
            'client_id' => $client_id,
            'email'     => $this->data['email'],
        ]);
    }

    public function resolveRecord(): ?Staff
    {
        $client_id = $this->options['client_id'];

        return Staff::firstOrNew([
            'client_id' => $client_id,
            'email'     => $this->data['email'],
        ]);
    }

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Import Action: Import data for the belongsTo relationship without having foreign_id in CSV itself?