The view page

Since 0.27 every record has a page that shows it without editing it: /admin/<slug>/view/<id>. It is built from the resource's form, so there is nothing to write for it. Each field is shown as its value (a badge for a status, Yes or No for a toggle, a link for an email address, a thumbnail for an image, a table for a repeater), in the same sections, tabs and sidebar as the edit page.

People who may view a resource but not edit it (content.<slug>.view without update) open records here. People who may edit open the edit page as before, and find View in each row's menu.

What it shows#

• The header: the record's title, who changed it last and when ("Updated 2 hours ago by Sara", from the activity log, else updated_at), and the buttons History, Edit and More. More holds the record's own actions (the row actions of the list), Print and Delete. Each button follows the person's permissions and canEdit() / canDelete().
• The language switch, when the form has translatable fields: Showing: EN · AR · KU. It starts in the panel's language when the site has it. A field without text in the shown language says Not translated; it never shows another language's text instead. A dot on a language means something is not translated there. ?showing=ar opens a language directly.
• The fields, as cards: each section is a card, tabs follow one another with their names as headings (so everything prints), collapsed sections are open, and fields outside a section share a card. Long fields (rich text, text areas, repeaters, galleries) take the whole row; on a phone everything is one column.
• Related records (relation managers) below, as on the edit page. Someone who may view the parent but not edit it sees each manager as a plain table of its first rows, with no buttons.
• Empty values show a dash.

Never shown: passwords, Hidden fields, fields hidden by a condition, and fields marked ->hiddenOnView().

Choosing what it shows#

Per field:

TextInput::make('internal_note')->hiddenOnView(),

TextInput::make('price')->numeric()
    ->formatOnView(fn ($value, ?object $record) => number_format((float) $value) . ' €'),

formatOnView() returns text; it is escaped.

For a different set of fields, override view() (by default it returns form()):

public function view(Form $form): Form
{
    return $form->schema([
        Section::make('summary')->label('Summary')->schema([
            TextInput::make('title')->translatable(),
            Select::make('status')->options([...]),
        ]),
    ]);
}

Who opens what#

protected static bool $viewPage = true;     // false: no view page (404), rows open Edit as before
protected static string $rowOpens = 'edit'; // 'view': the row title opens the view page, for editors too

public function canView(object $record): bool
{
    return $record->status !== 'private';   // per record, like canEdit()
}

The same choice is used everywhere a record is linked: Ctrl+K search, recent records, the Activity page, related fields (BelongsTo, BelongsToMany) and relation managers. Resource::recordUrl($record) gives it to your own code (null when the person may open neither page).

Viewers may also download the record's files (FileUpload), unless the field is hiddenOnView(). History is shown to people who may edit the record, and to people with activity.view.

Printing#

More → Print prints the values without the sidebar, buttons or language switch, with a line at the top: "Printed 20 Oct 2026 by Sara". Pressing Ctrl+P on the page does the same.

Without JavaScript#

The page works without JavaScript: the language switch is links, and History opens as its own page. Print and the copy buttons need JavaScript and are hidden without it.

Words#

The page's words are view.* in the panel's en, ar and ku files; override any of them in your site's lang files ('admin.view.not_translated' => '…').