Extending the Extended Field Rendering

To customize field rendering on the view page, use the oro.entity_extend_event.before_value_render event, which fires before a field’s value is rendered.

Example of an event listener registration:

oro_entity_extend.listener.extend_field_value_render:
    class: Oro\Bundle\EntityExtendBundle\EventListener\ExtendFieldValueRenderListener
    arguments:
        - '@oro_entity_config.config_manager'
        - '@router'
        - '@oro_entity_extend.extend.field_type_helper'
        - '@doctrine.orm.entity_manager'
    tags:
        - { name: kernel.event_listener, event: oro.entity_extend_event.before_value_render, method: beforeValueRender }

Each event listener decides how to display the field value. To change the field view value, it calls $event->setFieldViewValue($viewData);.

Example:

$underlyingFieldType = $this->fieldTypeHelper->getUnderlyingType($type);
    if ($value && $underlyingFieldType == 'manyToOne') {
        $viewData = $this->getValueForManyToOne(
            $value,
            $this->extendProvider->getConfigById($event->getFieldConfigId())
        );

        $event->setFieldViewValue($viewData);
    }

In this code, we should:

• check if the value is not null, and the field type is “manyToOne”.

• calculate the field view value and set it by calling $event->setFieldViewValue($viewData);

$viewData can be a simple string or an array, such as ['link' => 'example.com', 'title' => 'some text representation'].

A string is formatted automatically in a Twig template based on the field type.

An array renders the field with text equal to the escaped 'title' value. If the 'link' option exists, the field renders as a link with an href equal to the 'link' value.