I have a social network type site where there is the normal front end and an admin interface for me to log into.

I want to be able to exclude all soft deleted records (as it does anyway) from the front end, but in the admin I want them to be included in every query, so I can view them in a list, edit them, etc..

I've tried using a global scope with the withTrashed method, and also tried removing the SoftDeletingScope scope, but neither of them seem to work. e.g.

/**
 * The "booting" method of the model.
 *
 * @return void
 */
protected static function boot()
{
    
    parent::boot();

    if ( Auth::user()->isAdmin() ) {

        static::addGlobalScope('showDeleted', function(Builder $builder) {
             $builder->withTrashed();
        });

        // or

         static::addGlobalScope('showDeleted', function(Builder $builder) {
              $builder->removeGlobalScope(SoftDeletingScope::class);
         });

    }

 }

Thanks