PageTableExtended admin layout

[a-ok]

Hi folks,

I've been using the PageTableExtended recently to create some dynamic/curated sections on my site which is working really well, functionality wise, but the admin layout in the CMS is a little odd to work with. I have attached a screenshot of how one of my setups currently looks. You'll see it's hard to know what 'flexible-content-block' is an image, or text, or embeddable media etc. What would be really useful is to see the 'page' title on this screen. I have attached a screenshot with an idea. So, is something like my proposal currently possible, and if not, could it be added to a feature list? Wordpress's ACF flexible content area use this type of setup and it's a lot easier to maintain and organise. Especially for clients/users. Or, is there a way which I can fork this and build this layout for others to use if they find it useful?

Thanks,

R

[LostKobrakai]

Sure you're actually using the PageTableExtended module http://modules.processwire.com/modules/fieldtype-page-table-extended/? That's providing exactly what you're asking for.

[backes]

I think the regular PageTable Field is already doing what you want.

Just choose some Templates and you can select in the entry tab which fields to show up.

[a-ok]

Yep, definitely using the Extended version. But maybe it's to do with the 'Automatic Page Name Format' field? See my screenshots below. Any way to make the 'template label' appear as the type? Do you see what I mean?

[a-ok]

I managed to found out where it is outputting Automatic Page Name Format (flexible-content-block in this case) in the wire

protected function renderTableCol(Page $item, array $fields, $column, $width, $linkURL = '') {
    $out = $this->getItemValue($item, $fields, $column); 
    if($linkURL) $out = "<a class='InputfieldPageTableEdit' data-url='$linkURL' href='#'>$out</a>";
    $attr = $width ? " style='width: $width%'" : '';
    return "<td$attr>$out</td>";
}

So, where it is outputting the `getItemValue` can it not output the label of the template being used?

Ideally something like

$templateLabel = $template->label;
if($linkURL) $out = "<a class='InputfieldPageTableEdit' data-url='$linkURL' href='#'>$templateLabel</a>";

[LostKobrakai]

Yep, definitely using the Extended version.

Sorry missed your point a bit, thought you wanted a more "descriptive" layout instead of only better titleing. backes already showed the part of the pagetable configuration, where you can change which rows should be visible. Just put title in the first line and you'll get the title there.

Edit: If you're talking about the title of the type of page use "template" or even "template.label"

[a-ok]

Thanks for the help. I have put title, but the title is automatically generated as I don't want the user to have to type 'Image' or 'Image' every time. I have hidden this from the editor by default (see attachment) I'd like the title of the type of page to be shown here.

[LostKobrakai]

You don't seem to have noticed the edit to my last post. It's doable with "template" or "template.label".

[a-ok]

Thanks. But do you mean adding this under 'Automatic Page Name Format'?

Or here:

protected function renderTableCol(Page $item, array $fields, $column, $width, $linkURL = '') {
    $out = $this->getItemValue($item, $fields, $column); 
    if($linkURL) $out = "<a class='InputfieldPageTableEdit' data-url='$linkURL' href='#'>" . $out->template.label . "</a>";
    $attr = $width ? " style='width: $width%'" : '';
    return "<td$attr>$out</td>";
}

[LostKobrakai]

In neither. If you're editing the pageTable field there's a textarea "Table fields to display in admin" under the "Input" tab. There's the place to change the columns.

[a-ok]

Haha yes! That is brilliant. I'm guessing you can't change the 'Template > Template.label' text to something more user friendly? That's definitely not the end of the world though. Really really appreciated.

[ottogal]

Hi all!

Bringing up this old thread...

I'm guessing you can't change the 'Template > Template.label' text to something more user friendly?

My hope was to solve this by modifying the entries in the textarea "Table fields to display in admin".

For, say,  a field "text" of fieldtype file with the Label "Notes"  I had the entry "text.filesizeStr", hence the column title was "NOTES > TEXT.FILESIZESTR".

Wanting the title "SIZE" instead, I tried the entry "Size=text.filesizeStr".

And really, the column title changed to "SIZE". But the column lost its values - all its cells were empty.

So I assume that it needs just a slightly different syntax for the entry to work... Suggestions welcome!

[ottogal]

Any ideas?

[jploch]

Hey!

When using this great module with the delegate template approach (setting a new subfolder in field settings "Path to template").
Iam still getting warnings inside the backend, that the file doesn't exist. Everything else works as expected. Any ideas how to fix this or disable the warning?

TemplateFile: Filename doesn't exist: /Users/janploch/sites/michael-bader/dist/site/templates/block_icon.php

Putting this inside every template file from my subfolder, works but I would like to avoid that:

$page->template->filename = $config->paths->templates . "blocks/" .$page->template->name. ".php";

 

[jploch]

On 11/8/2020 at 1:59 PM, jploch said:

When using this great module with the delegate template approach (setting a new subfolder in field settings "Path to template").
Iam still getting warnings inside the backend, that the file doesn't exist. Everything else works as expected. Any ideas how to fix this or disable the warning?

Coming back to this, I found out that this is just affecting my local dev environment with laravel valet.
On a live server this is not an issue. So never mind ?