Textare field not rendered on Index Page

[SteffenAuer]

• Laravel Version: 8.83.16
• Nova Version: 4.12.6
• PHP Version: 8.0.19
• Browser type and version: Firefox (102.0.1) & Safari (15.5)
• Reproduction Repository: private

Description:

With the following code

 Textarea::make('Name')
  ->alwaysShow()
  ->showOnIndex()

the textarea field only gets rendered on the detail & form pages, but the index page shows nothing.

When I inspect the element in the browser, the following is shown:

<index-textarea-field class="text-left" field="[object Object]" resource="[object Object]" resource-name="achievement-levels"></index-textarea-field>

[henryavila]

@SteffenAuer
TextArea is designed for big text that make no sense to display on Index page.

The bug is to display the column, when nothing should be displayed.

For some specific situation, I use this tooltip package, might be what you need
https://github.com/elevenbytes/nova-tooltip-field

[davidhemphill]

It is not intended behavior for the Textarea to be seen on the index view. In the latest version of Nova, we'll throw an exception when calling this helper to inform the user instead of failing silently.

[halabudenco]

How to force display textarea?

[davidhemphill]

Nova doesn't support showing Textarea fields on the index views. You're free to use a Text field (set to only show on index) if you need to do this for some reason.

[halabudenco]

I did this and it helped

 Text::make(__('Комментарий'),'comment')->displayUsing(function ($value) {
         return mb_substr($value,0,30,'UTF-8').'...';
})->onlyOnIndex(),

Textarea::make(__('Комментарий'),'comment')->hideFromIndex(),

Thanks

[Lemmings19]

Modified version that splits up the description to not grow too wide (limited to a 50 character width in this example) and also trim it only show the first 250 characters:

TextArea::make(__('Description'), 'description')
    ->alwaysShow(),

Text::make(__('Description'))
    ->displayUsing(function ($value) {
        return nl2br(e(wordwrap(\Str::limit($value, 250), 50, "\n", true)));
    })
    ->asHtml()
    ->onlyOnIndex(),