How to add custom link or button to SonataAdminBundle Dashboard in Symfony2

Question

I am new with symfony2 and SonataAdminBundle.

I have added 3 entities to the SonataAdminBundle Dashboard and they appear successfully.

The Entities appear w

Answer 1

I had troubles with method execute (I am using Sonata 2.3.x ). Here is the code that works for me.

Note BlockContextInterface and $blockContext->getBlock() :

 public function execute(BlockContextInterface $blockContext, Response $response = null)
{
    // merge settings
    $settings = array_merge($this->getDefaultSettings(), $blockContext->getSettings());

    return $this->renderResponse('bundleName:Block:templateName.html.twig', array(
        'block'     => $blockContext->getBlock(),
        'settings'  => $settings
        ), $response);
}