Re: [Radiant] Customizing the user admin UI at the column level

[Wes Gamble]

 On 8/13/10 3:05 AM, William Ross wrote:
On 13 Aug 2010, at 05:01, Wes Gamble wrote:
On 8/12/10 6:47 PM, William Ross wrote:
On 13 Aug 2010, at 00:35, Wes Gamble wrote:

After looking into it, though, I see the admin/users/edit and 
admin/users/index views under the Radiant core are more or less 
hard-coded at the column level, but the error messages imply that I 
should be able to add a partial somewhere for my custom fields.

Questions:

What is the preferred way to customize at this level?

You're on the right lines, though I would normally use this kind of 
idiom to get more control:

admin.users.edit.add
:form, "edit_program", :after => "something"
and
then you need to create the partial, which in this case would
be
vendor/extensions/your_extension/app/views/admin/users/_edit_program.html.haml

I did this, and created a file in the correct place, and entered the 
following in my "activate" method:

  admin.users.edit.add :form, "edit_program", :after => "edit_roles"

My partial looks like this:

- form.edit_program do
  %p
    = f.label :program_id, t('program'), :class => "optional"
    = f.select :program_id, Program.all.collect {|p| [p.name, p.id]}

and I get the classic

" |wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)|"

message when I try to render the form.  This is because, AFAIK, the 
partial hasn't been passed the "form" variable as a local.


No, you're right, and I've never found the right answer for that. The 
only way I know to use FormBuilder methods is to wrap a fields_for 
around the partial:

- fields_for :user, @user do |ff|
    = ff.label :program_id, t('program'), :class => "optional"
    = ff.select :program_id, Program.all.collect {|p| [p.name, p.id]}

which isn't very helpful when you're trying to reuse a bit of form, 
but it does work.
And then of course, there's no way (using this method) to handle inserts 
into the index page, a la

/Insert into column headers in index view
- thead.program_header do
  %th.program= t('program')

/Insert into column cells in index view
- tbody.program_cell do
  %td.program= user.program

Fair?

Wes