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Hi, I just read the nova docs resource section from "the basics" to "Authorization". I miss one thing, or maybe did not see it. There is a way to make Relations with HasMany::make('Roles') in fields. I use spatie permissions and i would like to give the admin the possiblity to attach roles to a user. Now i only see the roles on users index. But I want to attach roles to user in update section. I read https://nova.laravel.com/docs/3.0/resources/relationships.html#creating-inline-relations but is that only for belongsto? I have hasMany and nothing is shown in my form, when I add ->showCreateRelationButton() to my filed.
It might be worth checking out this package, which is for Laravel Nova and Spatie permissions package: https://github.com/vyuldashev/nova-permission#:~:text=A%20Laravel%20Nova%20tool%20for%20Spatie's%20laravel%2Dpermission%20library,-Installation&text=This%20is%20typically%20done%20in%20the%20tools%20method%20of%20the%20NovaServiceProvider%20.&text=If%20your%20User%20could%20have,pick%20a%20single%20role%20from.
Thx @lancashireman i did not know that. But this seems to be a package, which can handle all... permissions, roles, ... I will do the role stuff only via database (seeder) and not in nova. But I need the option to attach roles to user. I dont like to import packages for each little thing... and im not sure if this package is still updated. I had some problems with old packages in the past... so i try to avoid too much packages, if not really needed.
Ok. I was my mistake. Now i have another problem. I used has many in nova but needed this:
BelongsToMany::make('Roles')
Now I have a table under users where i can detach and see all roles. But i cant attach a role. If i try i get this error:
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'model_type' doesn't have a default value (SQL: insert into `model_has_roles` (`model_id`, `role_id`) values (9, 2))
The mode_type is missing, but i dont know how to set it for the BelongsToMany field. Does anybody know this?
ps: Also when I click on edit a role in user resource, the roles field is disabled.
I try it again, becuse I dont find the solution. I need realised that I havt to use MorphToMany::make('Roles')instead of BelongsToMany. But I still have the problem, that there is no model_type set. How can I set this up in my user resource that my MorphToMany Relation knows, what the model is. This is the error I still get:
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'model_type' doesn't have a default value (SQL: insert into `model_has_roles` (`model_id`, `role_id`) values (6, 3))
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