Standalone actions are not logged in actions events log

[muni-oscar-parra]

• Laravel Version: ^9.10
• Nova Version: ^4.8
• PHP Version: 8.1.4
• Database Driver & Version: mysql 5.7
• Operating System and Version: #.#
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• Reproduction Repository: https://github.com/###/###

Description:

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue on a fresh Nova installation:

• Create Standalone action
• Run Standalone action
• Go to nova/resources/action-events

[crynobone]

Action Events need to be attached to a target model and standalone actions don't select and target any model, therefore there are no action events for standalone actions and you need to create them manually if you wish to have them.

[hivokas]

@crynobone while I understand your reasoning, I think it would be great to see action events for standalone actions out of the box. Without that, I can't see who and when runs standalone actions.

[crynobone]

You can always manually create an Action Event using Laravel\Nova\Actions\ActionEvent model.

[hivokas]

@crynobone thanks for replying. The goal was to automatically log action events for standalone actions. I was able to achieve this by extending ActionEvent model:

class ActionEvent extends \Laravel\Nova\Actions\ActionEvent
{
    public static function createForModels(ActionRequest $request, Action $action, $batchId, Collection $models, $status = 'running')
    {
        // If models collection is empty, we are dealing with a standalone action.
        // Standalone actions are not logged out of the box, but we want to log them.
        // https://github.com/laravel/nova-issues/discussions/4697
        if ($models->isEmpty()) {
            static::insert(
                static::defaultAttributes($request, $action, $batchId, $status),
            );
        }

        parent::createForModels($request, $action, $batchId, $models, $status);
    }
}