Custom admin tabs

[heldercervantes]

Hi guys.

I'm trying to setup a tab in processwire to list all pages under a specific page. I have a "portfolio" page and under it I create pages for each project. This new tab ideally would just display a page list starting from the portfolio parent. What's the best way to do this?

I would also like to add another tab that would jump straight to editing a profile page.

Thanks for your help.

[bernhard]

hi heldercervantes,

welchome to the forum.

regarding the listing part of your question: there is a commercial module that does your request very well: https://processwire.com/talk/store/category/9-listerpro/

regarding your 2nd part of the question: don't know exactly what you mean by "profile page". but overall it sounds a bit like you are thinking in a way like you would do it with another CMS... organizing your admin-interface in tabs and lists and so on. processwire is quite different on this part! you have everything organized in your pagetree. everything has its place there and if not really needed nowhere else!

for example if you had a blog setup. in drumlapress you would have a tab "blog" anywhere in your admin and manage your blog-entries there. then you would have to setup a menu-item listing all your blog-entries.

in processwire you would create a page "blog" in your tree, holding all of the blog-entries as children.

home
  '- blog
      '- post1
      '- post2

so if you or your client wanted to create a blog-entry you would just have to click on "blog" and then "new". in my experience this is much easier to understand for the clients than setting up articles and then linking them in the menu.

of course in PW you would have to exclude all blog-posts from getting listed in the menu - but thats very easy by using a selector like "template!=blogitem"

hope that helps a little  i hope it is not offtopic but structuring your content is the key to success in PW