Question

In SonataAdminBundle in Admin class I cannot make an orderBy on ManyToMany field.

For example Author and Book. Author can have many books, as well as Book can have many Autors. In link above it is written that I can use a query for a form field. So I could prepare a query that would select authors and irder them by name. How to manage this? How to get EntityManager there in order to create query and pass it through query option?

protected function configureFormFields(FormMapper $formMapper)
{
    $formMapper
        ->add('name','text')
        ->add('author', 'sonata_type_model', array('query' => ....), array('edit' => 'inline'))
    ;
}

Answer 1

OK, I got it work:

/**
 * @param \Sonata\AdminBundle\Form\FormMapper $formMapper
 * @return void
 */
protected function configureFormFields(FormMapper $formMapper)
{
    $entity = new \MyCompany\MyProjectBundle\Entity\Seria();
    $query = $this->modelManager->getEntityManager($entity)->createQuery('SELECT s FROM MyCompany\MyProjectBundle\Entity\Seria s ORDER BY s.nameASC');

    $formMapper
        ->add('title', 'text')
        ->add('seria', 'sonata_type_model', array('required' => true, 'query' => $query), array('edit' => 'standard'))
        ->add('description', 'textarea',
               array('attr' => array('class' => 'tinymce'), 'required' => false))        
    ;
}