Changing the label of the View tab

[BillH]

I'm trying to change the name of the View tab (client request) and can't work out how to get at the label property.

The closest I've got to it is the url property.

I've tried many things, including this:

$this->addHookAfter('ProcessPageEdit::buildFormView', function($event) {
    
    $arguments = $event->argumentsByName();
    bd($arguments);
    // Result: only 'url'
    
    $viewTab = $event->return;
    bd($viewTab);
    // Result: null

});

And this:

$this->addHookAfter('ProcessPageEdit::buildForm', function($event) {
    
    $form = $event->return;
    $viewTab = $form->find("id=ProcessPageEditView")->first();
    bd($viewTab);
    // Result: false

});

Does anyone know what I should be doing?

[adrian]

->first() doesn't work for the View tab - try it without and you should be ok.

[BillH]

Thanks @adrian

This works:

$viewTab = $form->find("id=ProcessPageEditView");

However, I get the following, which doesn't have any attributes I can change, or anything that seems to correspond to the label or name of the tab:

I think I must be getting something else wrong too!

[dragan]

There are hints in this thread: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/7971-renaming-the-content-tab-when-editing-pages-of-a-given-template/

As mentioned there, this is a working, albeit very hacky solution: (content instead of view tab)

// site/ready.php

wire()->addHookAfter("ProcessPageEdit::execute", function($event) {

    $render = $event->return;
    $template_name = "basic-page"; // Change this to match the exact template name of pages you want to apply tab-renaming to.

    if (false !== strpos($render, "template_{$template_name} ")) {
        $render = str_replace("Content</a>", "Content is King</a>", $render); // EN
        $render = str_replace("Inhalt</a>", "Inhalt ist Kaiser</a>", $render); // DE
        $render = str_replace("Contenu</a>", "Le roi, c'est le contenu</a>", $render); // FR
        $event->return = $render;
    }

});

 

[BillH]

Many thanks @dragan, that works fine.

The View tab is very slightly complicated by having a dropdown menu, so in case it's useful for anyone, here's a version that deals with that (changes "View" to "Preview"):

wire()->addHookAfter("ProcessPageEdit::execute", function($event) {

    $render = $event->return;
    $template_name = "basic-page"; // Change to the relevant template name

    if (false !== strpos($render, "template_{$template_name} ")) {
        $render = str_replace("View<span id='_ProcessPageEditViewDropdownToggle'", "Preview<span id='_ProcessPageEditViewDropdownToggle'", $render);
        $render = str_replace("Exit + View</a>", "Exit + Preview</a>", $render);
        $event->return = $render;
    }

});

Replacing just "View<span" would probably be enough, but perhaps there's a tiny risk it'd be in a rich text field as well.

[Robin S]

@BillH, another way to change such labels is to install LanguageSupport (you don't need to install any of the related language modules if you're not using multi-language in your site).

Then edit the Default language under Setup and "translate" any strings in the ProcessPageEdit.module that you want to change.

[BillH]

Thanks for the suggestion @Robin S

Seems like a nice way of doing it. There no risk (however remote) of accidentally replacing something that shouldn't be replaced, and it's more resilient to change. And I suspect there are going to be more requests to change labels and the like in future, so this could be a good approach for keeping things well organised.