How to make field attribute label work

Question

Recently, I add a field tag into the filter_workitems.xml, which looks like:

<field name="show_this_week" type="CheckboxCustom" label="sohw this week" description="" value="1" class="" onclick="
            var curr = new Date;
            var first = curr.getDate() - curr.getDay()+1;
            var last = first + 7;

            var firstday = new Date(curr.setDate(first)).toISOString();
            var lastday = new Date(curr.setDate(last)).toISOString();

            document.getElementById('filter_created_from').value = firstday.substring(0, 10);
            document.getElementById('filter_created_to').value = lastday.substring(0, 10);
            this.checked = false;
            this.form.submit();"/>

but found that the field attribute "label" not show as I expected, however "description" attribute show correctly. Wonder anyone know why and how to make label attribute show as it should do? Thanks for your tutoring~

Joomla version is 3.8.12

Answer 1

Assuming you're using Joomla's default search tools layout, it does not render labels. You can create a custom layout or a layout override specific to your component. To accomplish the second option:

Copy layouts/joomla/searchtools/default/filters.php to administrator/components/com_yourcomponent/layouts/joomla/searchtools/default/filters.php

Replace this code:

<?php $dataShowOn = ''; ?>
<?php if ($field->showon) : ?>
    <?php JHtml::_('jquery.framework'); ?>
    <?php JHtml::_('script', 'jui/cms.js', array('version' => 'auto', 'relative' => true)); ?>
    <?php $dataShowOn = " data-showon='" . json_encode(JFormHelper::parseShowOnConditions($field->showon, $field->formControl, $field->group)) . "'"; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<div class="js-stools-field-filter"<?php echo $dataShowOn; ?>>
    <?php echo $field->input ?>
</div>

With just this:

<div class="js-stools-field-filter">
    <?php echo $field->renderField(); ?>
</div>

This will render the entire field in a standard way.