How to turn a view into tab for a specific node type only?
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kirilius - Tue, 2007-12-18 20:39
Hello,
I have a view and the goal is to turn it into a tab that shows only for a specific node type. Here is what I do:
I have a page view called for e.g. x_pictures that is supposed to display all the pictures associated with a given node of type X. The URL I have given to it is node/$arg/pictures
In the "Menu" section of the page definition I have the following settings:
Provide Menu - checked
Provide Menu as Tab - checked
Make Default Menu Tab - NOT checked
Parent Menu Item Type - Already exists (don't create)
The view works fine and shows as a separate tab but on EVERY content type that I have. My goal is to have it displayed only for nodes of type X. How can I do that?
Thanks for the help!
Views Tabs?
I'm not quite sure I understand you, but take a look at http://drupal.org/project/views_tabs. It may do exactly what you need. Let us now if it does or doesn't.
It is not possible. I did
It is not possible. I did submit a patch a while back which allowed a snippet of php to be added to the menu assignment, but this was not really accepted.see http://drupal.org/node/64575
There is an undocumented and
There is an undocumented and not entirely complete feature that you can use.
In place of $arg, put $node-CONTENTTYPE
But be careful that certain parts will generate incorrect URLs (because the code has not been adjusted to understand that $arg isn't the only replacement possible now) -- this is mostly only a problem with RSS feeds.
>In place of $arg, put
Wow! This actually works!
In the view URL I put "$node-event/myview" and it only shows upp on content type event :-)
Custom menu hook
What I've done in the past for that is to define the view without specifying the "Real" path I want it to live at, then in my hook_menu() implementation I add an entry for node/arg(1)/myview if the node is of the type I want. Then just specify the view_page() callback (or whatever the function is called). It's a bit clunky, but functional.
Well I was hoping for a
Well I was hoping for a solution without any coding. The problem is that although I have good experience with web technologies, I have very limited Drupal exposure and I don't have experience with PHP.
I can try doing what you suggested, but can you please give me a little more detailed instructions?
I have the view, alright. Where should I look for the "hook_menu() implementation"? How do I "add an entry for node/arg(1)/myview"?
Thanks, I appreciate your help!
I did some experimenting and
I did some experimenting and got some results but I am not sure I am doing the right thing. The reason is that I found multiple occurrences of hook_menu() in various modules.
I did the change you suggested in one of them - Node Hierarchy (the one that I am using to give me a relationship between a node and some pictures). The thing is that I am not sure this is the right place for it. Ideally where should I make the change?
Panels
Panels 2 has the ability to do this. I suggest you try it out as a very good alternative.
I tried the Panels 2 module
I tried the Panels 2 module but still don't see how to configure a tab to be displayed for a node type with it. I created a Bonus:Panels type of view, which works, but don't see how to display it as a tab?
Any hints?
Panels Tabs
Wim Leers' Panels Tabs will let you do some cool stuff with Javascript tabs. The Drupal 6 menu system will really help with this stuff.
Thanks again! I was looking
Thanks again! I was looking for a solution to add a regular Drupal tab to the node display. Panels Tabs will probably work, however it introduces a new type of tab.
If you are looking at a node that you just created, normally you have 2 tabs: View and Edit. What I want to do is to add a new tab on the same level for displaying node-related information. Much like in the user profile you see different tab for the different categories of fields in the profile.
Custom mini-module
I had the same problem, the $node- didn't seem to work for me (and plus, don't like using features that might come and go) so wrote a small mini-module:
function ride_story_tabs_menu($may_cache) {
$items = array();
if (!$may_cache) {
$add_tab = FALSE;
if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && !arg(2)) {
$node = node_load(arg(1));
if ($node->type == 'ride_story') { $add_tab = TRUE; }
} else if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && arg(2) == 'tracks') {
$add_tab = TRUE;
}
if ($add_tab) {
$items[] = array(
'title' => 'Tracks',
'path' => 'node/' . arg(1) . '/tracks',
'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
'access' => 1
);
}
}
return $items;
}
YMMV, but seemed easy enough and works fine.