Is it possible to choose columns in admin?

[Martinus]

Does someone know if you can view more columns in admin? Now in Admin all I have is page names.

[taotoo]

You can add more fields to display by editing the templates for the relevant pages, clicking the Advanced tab, scrolling down to "List of fields to display in the admin Page List", then entering multiple fields such as {title} {a_field} {another_field}.

You can also mix in other text, such as {title} | {a_field} > {another_field}.

[Martinus]

Hi thanks for the reply. Is it also possible to have this in a table format? Because when I add fields to display I end up with one long line of text.

[taotoo]

Not that I know of, though maybe it's possible to create a module to do this.

You could instead consider using Lister. If you go to Pages > Find, you could save various searches as bookmarks, then add shortcuts to those bookmarks which would be used instead of the Page Tree. You can have different columns for each bookmarked search.

[Martinus]

thanks.

[bernhard]

You can use the new getPageListLabel() method of custom page classes to mimic a table-like list:

<?php namespace ProcessWire;
// placed in /site/classes/BasicPagePage.php
class BasicPagePage extends Page {

  public function getPageListLabel()
  {
    return "<span style='display:inline-block;width:200px;outline:1px solid black;'>{$this->id}</span><span style='display:inline-block;width:300px;outline:1px solid black;'>{$this->path}</span>";
  }
}

Brilliant new feature ?