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ModelAdmin - Intercept edit form submit


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Fitzi

Community Member, 1 Post

4 May 2016 at 3:13am

Edited: 04/05/2016 3:14am

There is following Notification DataObject

class Notification extends DataObject {

		private static $db = array (
			'Message'           => 'Text',
                        //...
		);

		private static $has_one = array(
			'Member'            => 'Member', //the recipient
			//...
		);

		//...
}

The important part is the has_one relationship with a member. This can't be changed to a many_many relationship.
But, for practical reasons, I want our customer to be able to send a notification to multiple customers at once. Therefore I added the following fields to the notification objects getCMSfields method:

HeaderField::create('SentToHeader', 'Notification senden an...'),
ListboxField::create('Member', '...folgende Mitglieder', $members)->setMultiple(true),
ListboxField::create('Membership', '...Mitglieder folgender Mitgliedschaften', $memberships)->setMultiple(true),

So far, everything is fine.
Now I need to somehow intercept the submit and instead of creating a single notification, create notifications foreach selected member (or for each member in each selected membership). I don't wan't to do this in the notifications onBeforeWrite because I feel like this is a very hacky solution.

Now to my question:
Can I somehow intercept the forms submit event in my model admin and prevent it's default behavior (creating a single new notification) and instead create as many new notification objects as needed?

Thanks in advance