yii bootstrap + widget TbButtonColumn + widget TbButtonGroup

Question

yii bootstrap + widget TbButtonColumn + widget TbButtonGroup

Faced with such a problem:

Table is formed by the widget TbGridView from bootstrap (from yii-booster). In the column TbButtonColumn I form the "edit / delete, etc."

But one button I want to do with the effect of Split dropdowns http://yii-booster.clevertech.biz/components.html#buttonDropdowns

$this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbGridView', array(
    'id'=>'customer-grid',
    'type'=>'striped bordered condensed',
    'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
    'filter'=>$model,
    'columns'=>array(
        'surname',
        'name',
        'middlename',
        'dateOfBirth',
        array(
            'class'=>'bootstrap.widgets.TbButtonColumn',
            'template'=>'{add} {list} {update} {print_act}',
            'buttons'=>array
            (
                'add' => array
                (
                    'label'=>'Назначить прием',
                    'icon'=>'plus',
                    'url'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("reception/create", array("id"=>$data->id))',
                    'options'=>array(
                        'class'=>'btn btn-small',
                    ),
                ),
                'list' => array
                (
                    'label'=>'Список предоставленных услуг',
                    'icon'=>'list white',
                    'url'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("patient/update", array("id"=>$data->id))',
                    'options'=>array(
                        'class'=>'btn btn-small btn-info',
                    ),
                ),
                'update' => array
                (
                    'label'=>'Изменить данные Пациента',
                    'icon'=>'pencil white',
                    'url'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("customer/update", array("id"=>$data->id))',
                    'options'=>array(
                        'class'=>'btn btn-small btn-success',
                    ),
                ),
                'print_act' => array
                (
                    'label'=>'Печать акта выполненных работ',
                    'icon'=>'print',
                    'url'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("customer/printAct", array("id"=>$data->id))',
                    'options'=>array(
                        'class'=>'btn btn-small',
                    ),
                ),
            ),
            'htmlOptions'=>array(
                'style'=>'width: 220px',
            ),
        ) 
    ),
));

Solution

I've always found that when I need to render a complex element in a gridview (especially a widget) it's easier if you call a function from the controller. For example your gridview would have columns that are defined like this:

'columns'=>array(
    'surname',
    'name',
    'middlename',
    'dateOfBirth'
    ...
    array(
        'name'=>'fieldName',
        //call the function 'renderButtons' from the current controller
        'value'=>array($this,'renderButtons'),
    ),
 )

And then in your action would look something like this. This just renders the example widget from Yii-booster example page http://yii-booster.clevertech.biz/components.html#buttonDropdowns:

Edit: This is also helpful because of the callback function renderButtons() accepts 2 parameters: $data and $row. You can use $data to access data from the gridview's data provider in order to dynamically render a widget.

public function renderButtons($data, $row) {
   $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbButtonGroup', array(
      'size'=>'large',
      'type'=>'inverse', // '', 'primary', 'info', 'success', 'warning', 'danger' or 'inverse'
      'buttons'=>array(
         array('label'=>'Inverse', 'items'=>array(
            array('label'=>'Action', 'url'=>'#'),
            array('label'=>'Another action', 'url'=>'#'),
            array('label'=>'Something else', 'url'=>'#'),
            '---',
            array('label'=>'Separate link', 'url'=>'#'),
        )),
      ),
   ));
}