Filament: One Filter for Multiple Widgets with Livewire Events

In Filament, adding a filter to dashboard widgets is pretty straightforward. But what if you want to have a filter that would update MULTIPLE widgets at once, similar to Google Analytics? We need to use events and Livewire properties for this. Let's take a look.

Widgets

First, let's create the widgets. We will need three widgets:

• Form with date filters
• Chart with orders
• Chart with Users

php artisan make:filament-widget Filters
php artisan make:filament-widget OrdersChart --chart
php artisan make:filament-widget UsersChart --chart

For the charts, I will be using the bar type.

Now, let's show date inputs in the Filters widget with Filament Forms. Also, the Filters widget needs to be full width and have the $sort = 1 to be on top.

app/Filament/Widgets/Filters.php:

use Filament\Forms\Form;
use Filament\Forms\Components\Grid;
use Filament\Forms\Contracts\HasForms;
use Filament\Forms\Components\DatePicker;
use Filament\Forms\Concerns\InteractsWithForms;
 
class Filters extends Widget implements HasForms
{
    use InteractsWithForms;
 
    protected static string $view = 'filament.widgets.filters';
 
    protected int | string | array $columnSpan = 'full';
 
    protected static ?int $sort = 1;
 
    public ?array $data = [];
 
    public function form(Form $form): Form
    {
        return $form
            ->statePath('data')
            ->schema([
                Grid::make()
                    ->schema([
                        DatePicker::make('from'),
                        DatePicker::make('to'),
                    ]),
            ]);
    }
}

resources/views/filament/widgets/filters.blade.php:

<x-filament-widgets::widget>
    <x-filament::section>
        {{ $this->form }} 
    </x-filament::section>
</x-filament-widgets::widget>

In the dashboard, we now have a widget with two date inputs.

For the other two widgets, we will show a chart of two models, User and Order. These charts will show how many new records are created daily.

For passing data to the chart, we will use the package recommended by Filament flowframe/laravel-trend.

composer require flowframe/laravel-trend

And for the charts.

app/Filament/Widgets/OrdersChart.php:

use App\Models\Order;
use Flowframe\Trend\Trend;
use Flowframe\Trend\TrendValue;
use Filament\Widgets\ChartWidget;
 
class OrdersChart extends ChartWidget
{
    protected static ?string $heading = 'Orders Chart';
 
    protected static ?int $sort = 2;
 
    protected function getData(): array
    {
        $data = Trend::model(Order::class)
            ->between(
                start: now()->subWeek(),
                end: now(),
            )
            ->perDay()
            ->count();
 
        return [
            'datasets' => [
                [
                    'label' => 'Orders',
                    'data' => $data->map(fn (TrendValue $value) => $value->aggregate),
                ],
            ],
            'labels' => $data->map(fn (TrendValue $value) => $value->date),
        ];
    }
 
    protected function getType(): string
    {
        return 'bar';
    }
}

app/Filament/Widgets/UsersChart.php:

use App\Models\User;
use Flowframe\Trend\Trend;
use Flowframe\Trend\TrendValue;
use Filament\Widgets\ChartWidget;
 
class UsersChart extends ChartWidget
{
    protected static ?string $heading = 'Users Chart';
 
    protected static ?int $sort = 3;
 
    protected function getData(): array
    {
        $data = Trend::model(User::class)
            ->between(
                start: now()->subWeek(),
                end: now(),
            )
            ->perDay()
            ->count();
 
        return [
            'datasets' => [
                [
                    'label' => 'Users',
                    'data' => $data->map(fn (TrendValue $value) => $value->aggregate),
                ],
            ],
            'labels' => $data->map(fn (TrendValue $value) => $value->date),
        ];
    }
 
    protected function getType(): string
    {
        return 'bar';
    }
}

We also have two charts in the dashboard showing data from the week to now.

Updating Charts

So now, let's update the charts when a filter is selected. To achieve this, we will need to dispatch a Livewire event after the date is selected and listen for that event in both charts widgets.

app/Filament/Widgets/Filters.php:

class Filters extends Widget implements HasForms
{
    // ...
 
    public function form(Form $form): Form
    {
        return $form
            ->statePath('data')
            ->schema([
                Grid::make()
                    ->schema([
                        DatePicker::make('from')
                            ->live() 
                            ->afterStateUpdated(fn (?string $state) => $this->dispatch('updateFromDate', from: $state)), 
                        DatePicker::make('to')
                            ->live() 
                            ->afterStateUpdated(fn (?string $state) => $this->dispatch('updateToDate', to: $state)), 
                    ]),
            ]);
    }
}

Now we need to listen for these two events in chart widgets and set its value to a public property.

app/Filament/Widgets/OrdersChart.php:

use Livewire\Attributes\On;
use Illuminate\Support\Carbon;
 
class OrdersChart extends ChartWidget
{
    protected static ?string $heading = 'Orders Chart';
 
    protected static ?int $sort = 2;
 
    public Carbon $fromDate;
    public Carbon $toDate;
 
    // ...
 
    #[On('updateFromDate')] 
    public function updateFromDate(string $from): void
    {
        $this->fromDate = Carbon::make($from);
        $this->updateChartData();
    }
 
    #[On('updateToDate')]
    public function updateToDate(string $to): void
    {
        $this->toDate = Carbon::make($to);
        $this->updateChartData();
    } 
}

app/Filament/Widgets/UsersChart.php:

use Livewire\Attributes\On;
use Illuminate\Support\Carbon;
 
class UsersChart extends ChartWidget
{
    protected static ?string $heading = 'Users Chart';
 
    protected static ?int $sort = 3;
 
    public Carbon $fromDate; 
    public Carbon $toDate; 
 
    // ...
 
    #[On('updateFromDate')] 
    public function updateFromDate(string $from): void
    {
        $this->fromDate = Carbon::make($from);
        $this->updateChartData();
    }
 
    #[On('updateToDate')]
    public function updateToDate(string $to): void
    {
        $this->toDate = Carbon::make($to);
        $this->updateChartData();
    } 
}

Because flowframe/laravel-trend package accepts Carbon as a parameter and from the event date is sent as a string, we make it to a Carbon. And then, using the updateChartData method, the chart is updated with the new data.

All that is left is to use these two properties in the getData method.

app/Filament/Widgets/OrdersChart.php:

class OrdersChart extends ChartWidget
{
    // ...
 
    protected function getData(): array
    {
        $fromDate = $this->fromDate ??= now()->subWeek(); 
        $toDate = $this->toDate ??= now();
 
        $data = Trend::model(Order::class)
            ->between(
                start: now()->subWeek(), 
                end: now(), 
                start: $fromDate, 
                end: $toDate, 
            )
            ->perDay()
            ->count();
 
        return [
            'datasets' => [
                [
                    'label' => 'Orders',
                    'data' => $data->map(fn (TrendValue $value) => $value->aggregate),
                ],
            ],
            'labels' => $data->map(fn (TrendValue $value) => $value->date),
        ];
    }
 
    // ...
}

app/Filament/Widgets/UsersChart.php:

class UsersChart extends ChartWidget
{
    // ...
 
    protected function getData(): array
    {
        $fromDate = $this->fromDate ??= now()->subWeek();
        $toDate = $this->toDate ??= now();
 
        $data = Trend::model(User::class)
            ->between(
                start: now()->subWeek(), 
                end: now(), 
                start: $fromDate, 
                end: $toDate, 
            )
            ->perDay()
            ->count();
 
        return [
            'datasets' => [
                [
                    'label' => 'Users',
                    'data' => $data->map(fn (TrendValue $value) => $value->aggregate),
                ],
            ],
            'labels' => $data->map(fn (TrendValue $value) => $value->date),
        ];
    }
 
    // ...
}

Here, we just set a variable to the public property or a default value.

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