Adminhtml Catalog Product Edit Tabs Sorting Order – How to Set

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I'm looking to add a new tab to the adminhtml catalog product edit page on the left side. I've gone through and followed this tutorial, and my new tab is showing up correctly on the left side.

http://www.phpcmsframework.com/2012/12/magento-steps-to-add-custom-tabs-to.html

What I'm looking to do now, though, is change the sorting order of those tabs so mine is not last on the list. This is something that was not covered in the tutorial, and I have not been able to find anything online or in the code to point me in the right direction. Any suggestions appreciated!

Best Answer

See below, notice I changed the action from addTab to addTabAfter and within the action I added the node <after>inventory</after>

This will display the tab under the Inventory tab.

As per the example, your layout is currently:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout>
    <adminhtml_catalog_product_edit>
        <reference name="product_tabs">
            <action method="addTab">
                <name>my_custom_tab</name>
                <block>customtabs/adminhtml_catalog_product_tab</block>
            </action>
        </reference>
    </adminhtml_catalog_product_edit>
</layout>

Change it to this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout>
    <adminhtml_catalog_product_edit>
        <reference name="product_tabs">
            <action method="addTabAfter">
                <name>my_custom_tab</name>
                <block>customtabs/adminhtml_catalog_product_tab</block>
                <after>inventory</after>
            </action>
        </reference>
    </adminhtml_catalog_product_edit>
</layout>

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For Front-end product tabs:

Please check first if your theme has a tab solution if they do not you can remove the extension you are using now through magento connect and install easytabs extension. It always worked for me.

For Back-end product tabs: this link gives you step by step how to add product tabs in the backend: http://phpcmsframework.blogspot.in/2012/12/magento-steps-to-add-custom-tabs-to.html

Magento CE 1.9.0.1 – Add Custom Block to Existing Tab in Catalog Product Edit View

I've found another way to achieve my goal, here is what I did.

I have overridden the method toHtml() of the class "Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Helper_Form_Gallery" in that way:

class Custom_Module_Block_Adminhtml_Catalog_Product_Helper_Form_Gallery 
    extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Helper_Form_Gallery {

    public function toHtml() {

        $myBlock = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout')->createBlock('custom_module/custom_block')->toHtml();

        return $myBlock . parent::toHtml();
    }
}

and added this in the config.xml file:

<global>
    <blocks>
        <adminhtml>
            <rewrite>
               <catalog_product_helper_form_gallery>Custom_Module_Block_Adminhtml_Catalog_Product_Helper_Form_Gallery</catalog_product_helper_form_gallery>
            </rewrite>
        </adminhtml>
    </blocks>
</global>

not sure if this is the best approach but it works.

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