Okay, I love the idea, but I have no idea how to use it. I put this in my mysite/code/ folder:

<?php

class MyModelAdmin extends ModelAdmin
{
protected static $managed_models = array (
'StaffMember'
);

public function Link()
{
return 'admin/mymodeladmin/';
}
}

?>

Not noticing anything new in the CMS. Did I do this right?

Seriously? No one knows how to use this thing?

There's precious little documentation on this that I can find. I've got as far as getting a new tab to appear in the admin panel, and it seems to have all the right controls, however clicking on "Create" just throws a js error:

processOnDemandHeaders is not defined

which seems to be jQuery related. I'm planning on debugging this further when I get the time, but I'd like to hear if anyone has actually got this to work.

I have three working, and will be updating the docs shortly. Assuming that the code is in MyModelAdmin.php, have you tried adding ?flush=1?

jam13, that has been fixed in r65843 and r65851

We can't get this thing going as well. It does display the interface (the left bar) , but nothing happens when you want to use it.

Love the idea though !

Try checking out the lastest 2.3 branch code (not nightly builds which apparently are not being updated). I finally got this working last night after being told by simon_w that there had been a number of fixes for modeladmin in the last few days.

http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/phpinstaller/branches/2.3/

Hi Jam,

Thanks for the tip, that helped !

Love what I'm seeing so far !

I have no idea how you guys are getting this to work. I don't see any new tab in the CMS, and when I try to manually enter the url /admin/crm, I get a Fatal Error: Disallowed action "crm" on controller CMSMain.

Here's my code:

<?php

class MyModelAdmin extends ModelAdmin
{
	protected static $managed_models = array (
		'StaffMember'
	);
	
	
	static $url_segment = 'crm';
	static $menu_title = 'My CRM';	
}
class StaffMember extends SortableDataObject
{
	static $db = array (
		'Name' => 'Varchar(50)',
		'Title' => 'Varchar(50)',
		'Description' => 'Text'
	);
	
	static $has_one = array (
		'Photo' => 'Image',
		'AboutPage' => 'AboutPage'
	);
	
	static $searchable_fields = array (
		'Name', 'Title'
	);
	
}

?>