Built-in cell formatting

If you are not using a custom row view, the cells will auto-format themselves.

I.e. If you are not using rowView() in your table, the component will attempt to display the cell contents by just getting the value from the model.

Note: If you know you are going to need more customization that the column formatter can support from the start, I would skip the column formatter and use a Custom Row View.

The following documentation is if you want to overwrite that default formatting functionality:

If you would like to format the cell inline:

1Column::make('Created On')
2    ->sortable()
3    ->format(function($value) {
4        return timezone()->convertToLocal($value);
5    }),

Note: If you need more control, the full parameter list for the format callback is $value, $column, $row.

If you would like to render HTML from the format method, you may call asHtml on the column.

1Column::make('Created On')
2    ->sortable()
3    ->format(function($value) {
4        return '<strong>'.timezone()->convertToLocal($value).'</strong>';
5    })
6    ->asHtml(),

You could also return a view:

1Column::make('Name')
2    ->sortable()
3    ->format(function($value, $column, $row) {
4        return view('admin.user.actions')->withUser($row);
5    }),

Be sure to check out the Custom Row View page to see how you can have full control over your row.