Magento – Problem in creating new block in Admin order page

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I am trying to create a new block in my admin panel "Sales->Order->View" Information tab.

In my extension's block folder i have a folder named Adminhtml in this i have file named : Company.php

class Namespace_Modulename_Block_Adminhtml_Company extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Abstract
{
}

In my extension module i have placed this code in config.xml under etc folder

 <adminhtml>
    <layout>
        <updates>
            <modulename>
                <file>module.xml</file>
            </modulename>
        </updates>
    </layout>
</adminhtml>

then i have my adminhtml layout file as :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <layout version="0.1.0">
   <modulename_adminhtml_company_index>
    <reference name="order_info">
        <block type="modulename/adminhtml_company" name="modulename" template="company.phtml" />
    </reference>
   </modulename_adminhtml_company_index>
  </layout>

But nothing happened yet,

Thanks in advance,

Best Answer

Go to template/sales/order/view/info.phtml and add:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('modulename');?>

in the place where you want your block to be displayed. The point here is that only blocks of type core/text_list (or derivates) will list all their child blocks html. The other blocks need to ouput them using getChildHtml

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So the answer is that it should not be an observed event. Here is how I got it to work, in the config.xml I needed to update the adminhtml node.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<config>
  <modules>
    <Wsu_NewtworkSecurities>
      <version>0.1.0</version>
    </Wsu_NewtworkSecurities>
  </modules>
  <adminhtml>
    <layout>
      <updates>
        <wsu_newtworksecurities>
          <file>newtworksecurities.xml</file>
        </wsu_newtworksecurities>
      </updates>
    </layout>
  </adminhtml>
</config>

and in

app\design\adminhtml\default\default\layout\wsu\newtworksecurities.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <feildset>
        <reference name="head">
            <action method="addJs">
                <script>wsu/newtworksecurities/newtworksecurities.js</script>
            </action>
        </reference>
    </feildset>

    <adminhtml_index_login>
        <update handle="feildset" />
        <reference name="form.additional.info">
            <block type="wsu_newtworksecurities/feildset" name="newtworksecurities.feildset"
                   template="wsu/newtworksecurities/feildset.phtml" />
        </reference>
    </adminhtml_index_login>

    <wsu_newtworksecurities_error_index>
        <reference name="content">
            <block type="core/template" name="newtworksecurities.error" template="wsu/newtworksecurities/error.phtml"/>
        </reference>
    </wsu_newtworksecurities_error_index>

</layout>

Magento – How to add a custom block to admin sales order shipment

I recommend that you take the form.phtml, copy it, then customize it inside your module.

Put customForm.phtml in design/adminhtml/default/default/template/modulename/. Next, you will need to enter the new customForm.phtml into your xml layout file. Copy over the Mage/core/adminhtml/etc/config.xml entry for

<adminhtml_sales_order_shipment_new>

Copy that whole node. You're going to need all the block entries to do a succesful override. Then, change the specific form call to your custom form. The ... in the code below denotes all the other xml you will have copied over.

<layout>
    <adminhtml_sales_order_shipment_new>
        ...
        <reference name="content">
            ...
            <block type="adminhtml/sales_order_shipment_create_form" template="modulename/customForm.phtml">    
            </block>
            ...
        </reference>
    </adminhtml_sales_order_shipment_new>
</layout>

This way, you can customize the form to your hearts content, and the post action will include your variables.

Notice that I did not change the type. You do not need to change this specific block to do what you're doing. If you look at Mage_Adminhtml_Sales_Order_Shipment_Create_Form, you'll see all it does is execute layout calls, assign urls, child html, etc. You can probably leave it alone.

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