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  • Forest Admin
  • Getting Started
    • Quick start
    • Development workflow
  • Reference Guide
    • How it works
      • Environments
      • Developing on Forest Admin
        • Using branches
        • Deploying your changes
        • Forest CLI commands
          • init
          • login
          • branch
          • switch
          • set-origin
          • push
          • environments:reset
          • environments:create
          • deploy
          • schema:diff [beta]
        • Express packages
    • Models
      • Enrich your models
      • Relationships
        • Create a Smart relationship
          • GetIdsFromRequest
        • Smart Relationship Examples
          • Smart hasMany relationship in mongoDB
    • Actions
      • Create and manage Smart Actions
        • Use a Smart Action Form
        • Use a Smart Action Intent
      • Smart Action Examples
        • Calculate the distance between two string addresses
        • Impersonate a user
        • Create a record with a multiselect through a many-to-many relationship
        • Handle enums with alias labels in a smart action
        • Dropdown with list of values in smart action form
        • Custom dynamic dropdown in a form using smart collections
        • Refresh hasMany relationship in smart action
        • Smart segment to restrict access to an action on a record details view
        • BelongsToMany edition through smart collection
        • Upload files to amazon s3
        • Upload several files with the File Picker
        • Retrieve smart field info in a smart action
        • Smart action to create several records from the input of a single smart action form
        • Add many existing records at the same time (hasMany-belongsTo relationship)
        • Call a webhook with record ids
        • Bulk update records
    • Smart Fields
      • Smart Field Examples
        • Add an HTML credit card as a smart field in a summary view
        • Display field with complex info in html format (rich text editor)
        • Generate signed urls to display S3 files in a smart field
        • Print a status object in a single line field
        • Sort by smart field
        • Sort by smart field that includes value from a belongsTo relationship
        • Add fields destined to the create form
        • Add validation to a smart field edition
        • Display smart field as progress bar using rich text editor
        • Update point geometry field using a smart field and algolia api
    • Smart Collections
      • Examples
        • Create a Smart Collection with Amazon S3
        • Smart relationship between model and stripe cards
        • Create records from a Smart collection
        • Searchable smart collection with records fetched from hubspot API
      • Serializing your records
    • Routes
      • Default routes
      • Extend a route
      • Override a route
    • Integrations
      • Stripe
      • Mixpanel
      • Intercom
      • Elasticsearch
        • Interact with your Elasticsearch data
        • Elasticsearch service/utils
        • Another example
      • Zendesk
        • Authentication, Filtering & Sorting
        • Display Zendesk tickets
        • Display Zendesk users
        • View tickets related to a user
        • Bonus: Direct link to Zendesk + change priority of a ticket
      • Dwolla
        • Display Dwolla customers
        • Display Dwolla funding sources
        • Display Dwolla transfers
        • Link users and Dwolla customers
        • Dwolla Service
      • Razorpay
      • Hubspot
        • Create a Hubspot company
        • Display Hubspot companies
      • Twilio
        • Send an SMS with Twilio and Zapier
      • Azure Table Storage
      • Slack
        • Send Smart Action notifications to Slack
      • Algolia
        • Geocode an address with Algolia
    • Smart Views
      • Create a Map view
      • Create a Calendar view
      • Create a Shipping view
      • Create a Gallery view
      • Create a custom tinder-like validation view
      • Create a dynamic calendar view for an event-booking use case
      • Create a custom moderation view
    • Smart Segments
    • Scopes
      • Create a scope more than one level away based on a Smart field
      • Scope on a smart field extracting a json's column attribute
    • Performance
    • Charts
      • Create an API-based Chart
      • Create a Smart Chart
      • Create Charts with AWS Redshift
  • Extra help
    • Setup
      • Install
      • Connecting Forest Admin to Your Database (Forest Cloud)
      • Forest Admin IP white-listing (Forest Cloud)
      • Why HTTPS is necessary even locally
      • Troubleshooting
      • Prevent permission errors at installation
      • Deploy your admin backend to AWS
      • Deploy your admin backend on Heroku
      • Deploy your admin backend to Ubuntu server
      • Deploy your admin backend to Google Cloud Platform
      • Install Forest Admin on a remote machine
      • Use Forest Admin with a read-only database
      • Configuring CORS headers
      • Running Forest Admin on multiple servers
      • Flatten nested fields (MongoDB)
    • Upgrade
      • Upgrade notes (Rails)
        • Upgrade to v9
        • Upgrade to v8
        • Upgrade to v7
        • Upgrade to v6
        • Upgrade to v5
        • Upgrade to v4
        • Upgrade to v3
      • Upgrade notes (SQL, Mongodb)
        • Upgrade to v9
        • Upgrade to v8
        • Upgrade to v7
        • Upgrade to v6
        • Upgrade to v5
        • Upgrade to v4
        • Upgrade to v3
      • Update your models' definition
      • Monitor your Forest's status
      • Manage your Forest Admin environments programmatically
      • Changing your domain name
      • Migrate to the new role system
      • Push your new version to production
    • Databases
      • Use a demo SQL database
      • Use a demo MongoDB database
      • Populate a postgreSQL database on Heroku
      • Connect to a read replica database
      • Plug multiple schemas
      • Add new databases
      • Manage SQL views
    • Settings
      • Customize your /forest folder
      • Disable automatic Forest Admin schema update
      • Include/exclude models
      • Display extensive logs
      • Laravel specific settings
    • Releases Support
    • Other documentations
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