By webspring on

drupal v: 6.17
ubercart 2.0
various other modules that should have no bearing on the content list.

I have been trying to simply add a new column to the content list/table. I have been trying with 'node_admin_nodes' and various other functions to alter the form.

The closest i can get to is show the table with the new column but the search filters have disappeared and the original content list/table shows below. So there are two content lists.

If anyone could point me in the right direction or help out it would be most appreciated.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

An alternative approach is to use views and views bulk operations to create a view/page that meets your needs.

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webspring commented

Thanks for the reply.
I would rather not go in the direction of views for this one. It seems like this should be a simple thing to do, just add a column to the admin content list?

Would anyone have another insight?

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nevets commented

The default admin page is not designed to be extensible, which is why I suggested views.

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webspring commented

That is a shame. But i was very close with my solution. I had the new column showing in a working content list, the only problem was that the original content filters had disappeared. I guess i will have to do some messing around with the filter functions/hooks.

Any pointers about the filters at all?

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Jaypan commented

You can add a column by overriding the theme for the page. I can't remember what the specific theme function is though. It may be theme_node_filter_form().

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ron_sparks commented

I wanted to o this do so i could add a node reference column.

I have a bunch of locations with auto title linked to centers, it would be nice to have a column that shows URL referrals so i know what the locations are linked to.

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Jaypan commented

You can add a column by overriding the theme for the page.

You can override the theme function for the page and add your column there.

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ron_sparks commented

I am not sure i quite know where to start with this but i may have to look into this, and ill search for some views that rebuild the admin management, but i dont really want to rebuild the drupal content management part of the site in views seems like that is counter to using a content management system... but what do i know.

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Jaypan commented

I think that the miscommunication here is that this thread is in the module development section of the forum, and you are looking for a module to do what you want. I'm telling you how to do it in a module, but that's not what you are looking for.

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ron_sparks commented

ah i see i need to build the module, thanks for clearing up the muddy ness a little.
If i make something awesome ill share it here.

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noah commented

I cribbed some code from the "Weight" module to make something similar work. It doesn't actually add a new column to the table, but appends some data to an existing column (the "status" column in this case, though Weight uses "operations"). This just shows the date/time of the last update to each node:

function [module]_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
	// add "last updated" info to the content list
	if ($form_id == 'node_admin_content') {
		if (!empty($form['admin']['status'])) {
			foreach ($form['admin']['status'] as $nid => $title) {
				$updated = db_result(db_query('SELECT changed FROM node WHERE nid = "%d"', $nid));
				$updated_string = date('Y-m-d \a\t g:ia', $updated);
				$form['admin']['status'][$nid]['#value'] .= " (edited $updated_string)";
			}
		}
	}
}
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zeezack commented

http://drupal.org/node/1417904

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mikedotexe commented

This is a great idea. Way to attack this with a different approach. I wrapped mine in a span tag I can make the text smaller. Thank you, noah

{referring to the post two above me}

Hakuna Matata

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mikedotexe commented

Views Bulk Operations module creates a new view called "admin_content" that works excellent for adding a column, and having it be sortable.
get VBO module
then navigate to your list of views at admin/build/views

find "admin_content"

If you edit the view and change the Path (under the Page display) from admin/content/node2 to admin/content/node it'll override Drupal's content list.

With only minor tweaking, this was the perfect replacement. This saved the day for me

Hakuna Matata

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jo_as_neo commented

Extra columns (https://www.drupal.org/project/extra_columns) would fit your need, I think. You can choose which column you want to add from a list of all your fields in all your content types.

See the issue list for a minor glitch and its manual fix.