The online documentation of the bundle is in http://sonata-project.org/bundles/admin

The demo website can be found in http://demo.sonata-project.org/admin/dashboard (admin as user and password)

For contribution to the documentation you can find it on Resources/doc.

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Warning: The bundle has been split into 4 bundles :

• SonataAdminBundle : the current one, contains core libraries and services
• SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle : Integrates the admin bundle into with the Doctrine ORM project
• SonataDoctrineMongoDBAdminBundle : Integrates the admin bundle into with MongoDB (early stage)
• SonataDoctrinePhpcrAdminBundle : Integrates the admin bundle into with PHPCR (early stage)

Google Groups: For questions and proposals you can post on this google groups

• Sonata Users: Only for user questions
• Sonata Devs: Only for devs

• Dashboard

• List

  • Automatic sort
  • Link to associated admin (Post => User)
  • Custom templates
  • Row Action : edit, view, ...
  • Batch Action
  • Clever row visualisation : boolean values are represented with 'check picture'
  • Filter
  • Pagination

• Edit/Create

  • Inline edition
  • Association management (create related model with + icon)
  • Group fields
  • Sortable option
  • Modal window to select model (when the list can be important)
  • Dynamic form on [one|many]-to-many association (add new element)

• Templating

  • base templates (field, list, filter) can be overwritten
  • layout templates can be defined into the Service Container

• Others

  • Nested Admin, ie /news/post/5/comment/list : filter and create comments only for the post with id=5
  • Contextual Breadcrumb
  • persistent parameters across an Admin
  • side menu option
  • Translated into 24 languages : BG, CA, CS, DE, EN, ES, EU, FA, FR, HR, HU, IT, JA, LB, NL, PL, PT, PT_BR, RO, RU, SK, SL, UK and zh_CN.
  • Built to be extended
  • Explain command line utility

• SonataMediaBundle : a media manager bundle
• SonataNewsBundle : a news/blog bundle
• SonataPageBundle : a page (CMS like) bundle
• SonataUserBundle : integration of FOSUserBundle and SonataAdminBundle

• create the ODM version
• save filter criteria