<DualListInput>

This Enterprise Edition component allows to edit array values, one-to-many or many-to-many relationships by moving items from one list to another.

This input allows editing values that are arrays of scalar values, e.g. [123, 456].

Tip: React-admin includes other components allowing the edition of such values:

Usage

In addition to the source, <DualListInput> requires one prop: the choices listing the possible values.

import { Create, SimpleForm } from 'react-admin';
import { DualListInput } from "@react-admin/ra-relationships";

const UserCreate = () => (
    <Create>
        <SimpleForm>
            <DualListInput source="roles" choices={[
                { id: 'admin', name: 'Admin' },
                { id: 'u001', name: 'Editor' },
                { id: 'u002', name: 'Moderator' },
                { id: 'u003', name: 'Reviewer' },
            ]} />
        </SimpleForm>
    </Create>
);

By default, the possible choices are built from the choices prop, using:

  • the id field as the option value,
  • the name field as the option text

The form value for the source must be an array of the selected values, e.g.

{
    id: 123,
    name: 'John Doe',
    roles: ['u001', 'u003'],
}

Check the ra-relationships documentation for more details.

Props

Prop Required Type Default Description
choices Optional Object[] - List of items to show as options. Required unless inside a ReferenceArray Input.
addButton Optional ‘outlined’ | ‘contained’ | ‘text’ | element - A Material UI variant value for the add button or a React element to replace it.
addButtonLabel Optional string ra-relationships. duallistinput. select The text or translation key to use as the label for the add button
availableItems Label Optional string ra-relationships. duallistinput. availableItems The text or translation key to use as the label for the list of available choices
dense Optional boolean false Visual density of the list component
disableValue Optional string ‘disabled’ The custom field name used in choices to disable some choices
optionText Optional string | Function name Field name of record to display in the suggestion item or function which accepts the current record as argument (record => {string})
optionValue Optional string id Field name of record containing the value to use as input value
removeButton Optional ‘outlined’ | ‘contained’ | ‘text’ | element - A Material UI variant value for the remove button or a React element to replace it.
removeButton Label Optional string ra-relationships duallistinput. unselect The text or translation key to use as the label for the remove button
selectedItems Label Optional string ra-relationships. duallistinput. selectedItems The text or translation key to use as the label for the list of selected choices
translateChoice Optional boolean true Whether the choices should be translated

<DualListInput> also accepts the common input props.

choices

The list of choices must be an array of objects - one object for each possible choice. In each object, id is the value, and the name is the label displayed to the user.

<DualListInput source="roles" choices={[
    { id: 'admin', name: 'Admin' },
    { id: 'u001', name: 'Editor' },
    { id: 'u002', name: 'Moderator' },
    { id: 'u003', name: 'Reviewer' },
]} />

You can render some options as disabled by setting the disabled field in some choices:

<DualListInput source="roles" choices={[
    { _id: 'admin', label: 'Admin', disabled: true },
    { _id: 'u001', label: 'Editor' },
    { _id: 'u002', label: 'Moderator' },
    { _id: 'u003', label: 'Reviewer' },
]}  />

You can also use an array of objects with different properties for the label and value, given you specify the optionText and optionValue props:

<DualListInput source="roles" choices={[
    { _id: 'admin', label: 'Admin' },
    { _id: 'u001', label: 'Editor' },
    { _id: 'u002', label: 'Moderator' },
    { _id: 'u003', label: 'Reviewer' },
]} optionValue="_id" optionText="label" />

The choices are translated by default, so you can use translation identifiers as choices:

const choices = [
    { id: 'admin', name: 'myroot.roles.admin' },
    { id: 'u001', name: 'myroot.roles.u001' },
    { id: 'u002', name: 'myroot.roles.u002' },
    { id: 'u003', name: 'myroot.roles.u003' },
];

You can opt-out of this translation by setting the translateChoice prop to false.

If you need to fetch the options from another resource, you’re actually editing a one-to-many or a many-to-many relationship. In this case, wrap the <DualListInput> in a <ReferenceArrayInput> or a <ReferenceManyToManyInput> component. You don’t need to specify the choices prop - the parent component injects it based on the possible values of the related resource.

<ReferenceArrayInput source="tag_ids" reference="tags">
    <DualListInput />
</ReferenceArrayInput>

If you have an array of values for the options, turn it into an array of objects with the id and name properties:

const possibleValues = ['programming', 'lifestyle', 'photography'];
const ucfirst = name => name.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + name.slice(1);
const choices = possibleValues.map(value => ({ id: value, name: ucfirst(value) }));

<DualListInput source="roles" choices={choices} />

disableValue

By default, <DualListInput> renders the choices with the field disabled as disabled.

const choices = [
    { _id: 'admin', label: 'Admin', disabled: true },
    { _id: 'u001', label: 'Editor' },
    { _id: 'u002', label: 'Moderator' },
    { _id: 'u003', label: 'Reviewer' },
];
<DualListInput source="roles" choices={choices} />

If you want to use another field to denote disabled options, set the disableValue prop.

const choices = [
    { _id: 'admin', label: 'Admin', not_available: true },
    { _id: 'u001', label: 'Editor' },
    { _id: 'u002', label: 'Moderator' },
    { _id: 'u003', label: 'Reviewer' },
];
<DualListInput source="roles" choices={choices} disableValue="not_available" />

optionText

You can customize the properties to use for the option name (instead of the default name) thanks to the optionText prop:

const choices = [
    { id: 'admin', label: 'Admin' },
    { id: 'u001', label: 'Editor' },
    { id: 'u002', label: 'Moderator' },
    { id: 'u003', label: 'Reviewer' },
];
<DualListInput source="roles" choices={choices} optionText="label" />

optionText is especially useful when the choices are records coming from a <ReferenceArrayInput> or a <ReferenceManyToManyInput>. By default, react-admin uses the recordRepresentation function to display the record label. But if you set the optionText prop, react-admin will use it instead.

<ReferenceArrayInput source="tag_ids" reference="tags">
    <DualListInput optionText="tag" />
</ReferenceArrayInput>

optionText also accepts a function, so you can shape the option text based on the entire choice object:

const choices = [
   { id: 123, first_name: 'Leo', last_name: 'Tolstoi' },
   { id: 456, first_name: 'Jane', last_name: 'Austen' },
];
const optionRenderer = choice => `${choice.first_name} ${choice.last_name}`;

<DualListInput source="authors" choices={choices} optionText={optionRenderer} />

optionText also accepts a React Element, that will be rendered inside a <RecordContext> using the related choice as the record prop. You can use Field components there.

const choices = [
   { id: 123, first_name: 'Leo', last_name: 'Tolstoi' },
   { id: 456, first_name: 'Jane', last_name: 'Austen' },
];

const FullNameField = () => {
    const record = useRecordContext();
    return <span>{record.first_name} {record.last_name}</span>;
}

<DualListInput source="authors" choices={choices} optionText={<FullNameField />}/>

optionValue

You can customize the properties to use for the option value (instead of the default id) thanks to the optionValue prop:

const choices = [
    { _id: 'admin', name: 'Admin' },
    { _id: 'u001', name: 'Editor' },
    { _id: 'u002', name: 'Moderator' },
    { _id: 'u003', name: 'Reviewer' },
];
<DualListInput source="roles" choices={choices} optionValue="_id" />

sx: CSS API

The <DualListInput> component accepts the usual className prop. You can also override many styles of the inner components thanks to the sx property (as most Material UI components, see their documentation about it). This property accepts the following subclasses:

Rule name Description
& .RaDualListInput-main Applied to the main container
& .RaDualListInput-label Applied to the label
& .RaDualListInput-actions Applied to the buttons container
& .RaDualListInput-button Applied to each button
& .RaDualListInput-addButton Applied to the add button
& .RaDualListInput-removeButton Applied to the remove button
& .RaDualListInput-list Applied to each list
& .RaDualListInput-listHeader Applied to each list header
& .RaDualListInput-selectedList Applied to the selected list
& .RaDualListInput-availableList Applied to the available list

To override the style of all instances of <DualListInput> using the Material UI style overrides, use the RaDualListInput key.

translateChoice

The choices are translated by default, so you can use translation identifiers as choices:

const choices = [
    { id: 'admin', name: 'myroot.roles.admin' },
    { id: 'u001', name: 'myroot.roles.u001' },
    { id: 'u002', name: 'myroot.roles.u002' },
    { id: 'u003', name: 'myroot.roles.u003' },
];

However, in some cases, you may not want the choice to be translated. Set the translateChoice prop to false for that purpose.

<DualListInput source="roles" choices={choices} translateChoice={false}/>

Note that translateChoice is set to false when <DualListInput> is a child of <ReferenceArrayInput>.

Using in a ReferenceArrayInput

If you want to populate the choices attribute with a list of related records, you should decorate <DualListInput> with <ReferenceArrayInput>, and leave the choices empty:

import {
    Create,
    DateInput,
    ReferenceArrayInput,
    SimpleForm,
    TextInput,
} from 'react-admin';
import { DualListInput } from "@react-admin/ra-relationships";

export const PostCreate = () => (
    <Create>
        <SimpleForm>
            <TextInput source="title" />
            <TextInput multiline source="body" />
            <DateInput source="published_at" />
            <ReferenceArrayInput reference="tags" source="tags">
                <DualListInput optionText="name" />
            </ReferenceArrayInput>
        </SimpleForm>
    </Create>
);

Tip: As it does not provide autocompletion, <DualListInput> might not be suited when the reference resource has a lot of items.