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Somewhere, I’ve misplaced a link to a forum post or blog article that described a way to save Edit Tab filter settings so they could be used in the CP Tab Manager to create custom tabs. Can somebody point me in the right direction?

I’m building out a project that will have hundreds of entries that require periodic edits via the Control Panel. The default view of the Edit pane takes too many steps to find and open a specific entry. If you have to do this 20 times in a session, the CP starts working against you.

I’d like to place a big, fat tab up next to the standard PUBLISH and EDIT tabs that says “Edit Towns” or “Edit Candidates” and then have the user taken directly to a sorted list as if he’d used the available Filters and retransmitted.

I’ve been searching for the tutorial that described this method for over an hour. Does this ring a bell?

I agree that is a huge pain when you want to edit multiple entries in a given blog.  I have never heard of a way to save the filter (a feature that seems pretty obvious), but I developed a workaround.

After setting up the filter parameters and editing the first entry, I do a quick save and then hit the browser back button twice, which will take you back the filtered results on the Edit page.  Not exactly elegant, but it beats setting up the filter every time!

Thanks, Roi. That trick certainly helps! I’m sure I read a clever account of someone snagging the URL that’s generated when you transmit filter settings and making that reusable in the Tab Manager. I mentally marked it as an idea to try another day and now I can’t find it.

Suppose another easy solution for my client would be to place “Edit This” links in every entry so that while viewing the public site and logged-in, he’s never more than one click away from any article’s edit pane.