Entity Activities

Enable Activity Association Using Migrations

Usually, an administrator provides a predefined set of associations between the activity entity and other entities. You can also create this association type using migrations, if necessary.

The following example illustrates how to do it:

namespace Oro\Bundle\UserBundle\Migrations\Schema\v1_3;

use Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\Schema;
use Oro\Bundle\MigrationBundle\Migration\Migration;
use Oro\Bundle\MigrationBundle\Migration\QueryBag;
use Oro\Bundle\ActivityBundle\Migration\Extension\ActivityExtension;
use Oro\Bundle\ActivityBundle\Migration\Extension\ActivityExtensionAwareInterface;

class OroUserBundle implements Migration, ActivityExtensionAwareInterface
{
    protected ActivityExtension $activityExtension;

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function setActivityExtension(ActivityExtension $activityExtension)
    {
        $this->activityExtension = $activityExtension;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function up(Schema $schema, QueryBag $queries)
    {
        self::addActivityAssociations($schema, $this->activityExtension);
    }

    /**
     * Enables Email activity for User entity
     *
     * @param Schema            $schema
     * @param ActivityExtension $activityExtension
     */
    public static function addActivityAssociations(Schema $schema, ActivityExtension $activityExtension)
    {
        $activityExtension->addActivityAssociation($schema, 'oro_email', 'oro_user', true);
    }
}

Make an Entity an Activity

To create an activity from your new entity, you need to make the entity extended and include it in the activity group.

To make the entity extended, implement the ExtendEntityInterface using the ExtendEntityTrait. The class must also implement ActivityInterface.

Here is an example:

use Oro\Bundle\ActivityBundle\Model\ActivityInterface;
use Oro\Bundle\ActivityBundle\Model\ExtendActivity;
use Oro\Bundle\EntityExtendBundle\Entity\ExtendEntityInterface;
use Oro\Bundle\EntityExtendBundle\Entity\ExtendEntityTrait

class Email implements ActivityInterface, ExtendEntityInterface
{
    use ExtendActivity;
    use ExtendEntityTrait;
}

Use this class as the superclass for your entity. To include the entity in the activity group, use the ORO entity configuration, for example:

/**
 *  @Config(
 *  defaultValues={
 *      "grouping"={"groups"={"activity"}}
 *  }
 * )
 */
class Email implements ActivityInterface, ExtendEntityInterface

Your entity is now recognized as the activity entity. To make sure that the activity is displayed correctly, you need to configure its UI.

Working with Activity Associations

Activity associations are represented by multiple many-to-many associations. This is quite a complex type of associations, and to help work with activities, the ActivityManager class was created.

This class provides the following functionality:

• Check whether a specific type of entity has any activity associations.
• Check whether a specific type of entity can be associated with a specific activity.
• Get a list of entity types of all activity entities.
• Get the list of fields responsible for storing activity associations for a specific type of activity entity.
• Get a query builder that can be used for fetching a list of entities associated with a specific activity.
• Get a list of fields responsible for storing activity associations for a specific type of entity.
• Get a query builder that can be used to fetch a list of activity entities associated with a specific entity.
• Get an array that contains info about all activity associations for a specific type of entity.
• Get an array that contains info about all activity actions for a specific type of entity.
• Add a filter by a specific entity to a query builder that is used to get a list of activities.
• Associate an entity with an activity entity.
• Remove an association between an entity and an activity entity.

Configure UI for the Activity Entity

Before using the new activity entity within OroPlatform, you need to:

• Configure UI for Activity List Section
• Configure UI for an Activity Button

Take a look at all configuration options for the activity scope before reading further.

Configure UI for Activity List Section

First, create a new action in your controller and a TWIG template responsible for rendering the list of your activities.

Keep in mind that:

• The controller action must accept two parameters: $entityClass and $entityId.
• The entity class name can be encoded to avoid routing collisions. That is why you need to use the oro_entity.routing_helper service to get the entity by its class name and id.
• In the following example, the activity-email-grid datagrid is used to render the list of activities. This grid is defined in the datagrids.yml file:

/**
 * This action is used to render the list of emails associated with the given entity
 * on the view page of this entity
 *
 * @Route(
 *      "/activity/view/{entityClass}/{entityId}",
 *      name="oro_email_activity_view"
 * )
 *
 * @AclAncestor("oro_email_email_view")
 * @Template
 */
public function activityAction($entityClass, $entityId)
{
    return [
        'entity' => $this->get('oro_entity.routing_helper')->getEntity($entityClass, $entityId)
    ];
}

{% import '@OroDataGrid/macros.html.twig' as dataGrid %}

<div class="widget-content">
    {{ dataGrid.renderGrid('activity-email-grid', {
        entityClass: oro_class_name(entity, true),
        entityId: entity.id
    }) }}
</div>

Now, you need to bind the controller to your activity entity. Use ORO entity configuration, for example:

/**
 *  @Config(
 *  defaultValues={
 *      "grouping"={"groups"={"activity"}},
 *      "activity"={
 *          "route"="oro_email_activity_view",
 *          "acl"="oro_email_email_view"
 *      }
 *  }
 * )
 */
class Email implements ActivityInterface, ExtendEntityInterface

Please note that the example above contains the route attribute to specify the controller path and the acl attribute to set ACL restrictions.

Configure UI for an Activity Button

To add an activity button to the view page of the entity with the assigned activity:

1. Create two TWIG templates responsible for rendering the button and the link in the dropdown menu. Please note that you should provide both templates because an action can be rendered either as a button or a link depending on the number of actions, UI theme, device (desktop/mobile), etc.

Here is an example of TWIG templates:

activityButton.html.twig

{{ UI.clientButton({
    'dataUrl': path(
        'oro_email_email_create', {
            to: oro_get_email(entity),
            entityClass: oro_class_name(entity, true),
            entityId: entity.id
    }) ,
    'aCss': 'no-hash',
    'iCss': 'fa-envelope',
    'dataId': entity.id,
    'label' : 'oro.email.send_email'|trans,
    'widget' : {
        'type' : 'dialog',
        'multiple' : true,
        'reload-grid-name' : 'activity-email-grid',
        'options' : {
            'alias': 'email-dialog',
            'method': 'POST',
            'dialogOptions' : {
                'title' : 'oro.email.send_email'|trans,
                'allowMaximize': true,
                'allowMinimize': true,
                'dblclick': 'maximize',
                'maximizedHeightDecreaseBy': 'minimize-bar',
                'width': 1000
            }
        }
    }
}) }}

activityLink.html.twig

{{ UI.clientLink({
    'dataUrl': path(
        'oro_email_email_create', {
            to: oro_get_email(entity),
            entityClass: oro_class_name(entity, true),
            entityId: entity.id
    }),
    'aCss': 'no-hash',
    'iCss': 'fa-envelope',
    'dataId': entity.id,
    'label' : 'oro.email.send_email'|trans,
    'widget' : {
        'type' : 'dialog',
        'multiple' : true,
        'reload-grid-name' : 'activity-email-grid',
        'options' : {
            'alias': 'email-dialog',
            'method': 'POST',
            'dialogOptions' : {
                'title' : 'oro.email.send_email'|trans,
                'allowMaximize': true,
                'allowMinimize': true,
                'dblclick': 'maximize',
                'maximizedHeightDecreaseBy': 'minimize-bar',
                'width': 1000
            }
        }
    }
}) }}

2. Register these templates in placeholders.yml, for example:

placeholders:
items:
    oro_send_email_button:
        template: '@@OroEmail/Email/activityButton.html.twig'
        acl: oro_email_email_create
    oro_send_email_link:
        template: '@@OroEmail/Email/activityLink.html.twig'
        acl: oro_email_email_create

3. Bind the items declared in placeholders.yml to the activity entity using the action_button_widget and action_link_widget attributes.

For example:

/**
 *  @Config(
 *  defaultValues={
 *      "grouping"={"groups"={"activity"}},
 *      "activity"={
 *          "route"="oro_email_activity_view",
 *          "acl"="oro_email_email_view",
 *          "action_button_widget"="oro_send_email_button"
 *          "action_link_widget"="oro_send_email_link"
 *      }
 *  }
 * )
 */
class Email implements ActivityInterface, ExtendEntityInterface

Configure Custom Grid for Activity Context Dialog

If you want to define a context grid for an entity (e.g., User) in the activity context dialog, add the context option in the entity class @Config annotation, for example:

/**
 * @Config(
 *      defaultValues={
 *          "grid"={
 *              "default"="default-grid",
 *              "context"="default-context-grid"
 *          }
 *     }
 * )
 */
class User implements ExtendEntityInterface

This option is used to recognize the grid for the entity with a higher priority than the default option. If these options (context or default) are not defined for an entity, the grid does not appear in the context dialog.

Enable Contexts Column in Activity Entity Grids

For any activity entity grid, you can add a column that includes all context entities.

Have a look at the following example of tasks configuration in datagrids.yml:

datagrids:
    tasks-grid:
        # extension configuration
        options:
            contexts:
                enabled: true          # default `false`
                column_name: contexts  # optional, column identifier, default is `contexts`
                entity_name: ~         # optional, set the FQCN of the grid base entity if auto detection fails

This configuration creates a column named contexts and tries to detect the activity class name automatically. If, for some reason, it fails, you can specify an FQCN in the entity_name option.

If you wish to configure the column, add a section with the name specified in the column_name option:

datagrids:
    tasks-grid:
        # column configuration
        columns:
             contexts:                      # the column name defined in options
                label: oro.contexts.label   # optional, default `oro.activity.contexts.column.label`
                renderable: true            # optional, default `true`
                ...

The column type is twig (unchangeable), so you can also specify template.

The default one is @OroActivity/Grid/Column/contexts.html.twig.

{% for item in value %}
    {% spaceless %}
        <span class="context-item">
            <span class="{{ item.icon }}"></span>
            {% if item.link %}
                <a href="{{ item.link }}" class="context-label">{{ item.title|trim }}</a>
            {% else %}
                <span class="context-label">{{ item.title|trim }}</span>
            {% endif %}
        </span>
    {% endspaceless %}
    {{- not loop.last ? ', ' }}
{% endfor %}