Modify Channel Entries Columns
Development and Programming
Has anyone successfully been able to modify the “Edit Channel Entries” page of the Control Panel?
Currently is shows “#, Title, View, Comments, Author, Date, Channel, Status” Would like to change a column I don’t use, say “Comments” for “URL Title”. Reason being because several titles are identical and can only tell the difference with the URL. Can’t change the title for display in the actual website purposes. Would save me 1minute per manipulation for thousands of files.
Looking around the forum looks like perhaps a hook or extension may help. Thoughts?
Thanks 😊
thanks for the link to the add-on. At this point I only need to switch one column so don’t need the super charged functionality.
Anyone successful in doing it out of the box? Thanks
Took some time to figure out how to do this via a hack in two EE files, posting my solution here to hopefully save others some time.
I successfully replaced a column in the default “Edit Entries” view in Control Panel (CP) “author” with another exp_channel_title table column “url_title” more useful to us. The issue resolved was being to differentiate among channel entries with the same title (which is the reason why EE forces distinct url_titles thus I don’t see why they don’t add the url_title by default).
Files modified are two (EEv2.5.2): system/expressionengine/controllers/cp/content_edit.php system/expressionengine/models/search_model.php (note line # below are approximate as sometimes they differ based on version and changes to your files)
In content_edit: line #105, in $columns array replaced ‘screen_name’ => array(‘header’ => lang(‘author’)), with ‘url_title’ => array(‘header’ => lang(‘url’), ‘sort’ => FALSE),
line #355, added url_title to line $this->db->select(‘entry_id, original_entry_id, channel_id, title, url_title, status, entry_date, dst_enabled, comment_total’);
line #406, added to for each ($row as &$row) $row[‘url_title’] = $row[‘url_title’];
In search_model: line #483 in get_full_cp_query added to $select.= exp_channel_titles.url_title,
Accomplished the same Hack in Playa fields with the help of Pixel & Tonic: https://getsatisfaction.com/pixelandtonic/topics/duplicate_channel_entry_titles_show_title_and_url_title