Add option to provide links to a view pane from panels pane edit page [#993990]

Hi,

I have made a patch that renders an extra link in edit pane links, which makes it possible to, from a pane, directly go to the view that have been chosen for that pane. This is very helpful when you have a lot of views and do not really know exactly which one you use in your pane. It does only show if the pane is of the views display type "content pane". The link opens the view page in another window to make it easier to go back to your panel edit pane page later.

Maybe this is the wrong way of doing it but it works really well and it helps me in my job every day.

/ Bobodrone

Comment	File	Size	Author
#10	hook_panels_renderer_editor_pane_links+pal.png	20.58 KB	vijaycs85
#10	panels-993990-edit-menu-item-10.patch	700 bytes	vijaycs85
#7	993990_add_pane_links_hook.patch	656 bytes	bobodrone
#8	pal_screendump.png	169.42 KB	bobodrone
#2	add_view_minipanels_links_to_panels.patch	2.57 KB	bobodrone
#2	edit_minipanel_from_panels.png	17.01 KB	bobodrone
#2	edit_views_from_panels.png	16.53 KB	bobodrone
	edit_view_link_in_pane.png	12.83 KB	bobodrone
	render_link_2_view_pane.patch	878 bytes	bobodrone

Comments

Comment #1

pontus_nilsson

Stockholm

commented 10 December 2010 at 10:29

Nice functionality!

Comment #2

bobodrone commented 27 December 2010 at 21:32

Status	File	Size
new	edit_views_from_panels.png	16.53 KB
new	edit_minipanel_from_panels.png	17.01 KB
new	add_view_minipanels_links_to_panels.patch	2.57 KB

I have now also added support for editing a mini panel directly from pane links and in addition also gave the views and mini panels it´s own "dropdown-header" to make it a bit more pretty.

I still think that it maybe should be some kind of a hook function instead where other modules could hook into and create these links here instead but my knowledge about panels code is very basic so...

Happy 2011!

/ BoboDrone
(aka. Fredric Bergström, NodeOne Sweden/Göteborg)

Comment #3

merlinofchaos commented 27 December 2010 at 21:26

There's a panels_pane_alter that people can use to add these.

Comment #4

bobodrone commented 27 December 2010 at 21:33

Ok. thanx for quick reply!
I look into that right away.

/ BoboDrone

Comment #5

merlinofchaos commented 27 December 2010 at 21:51

Oh wait. You're talking about a different set of links than I was thinking. Nevermind. Yes, there needs to be an alter for these, though it's not quite that simple -- and there's a patch for that because skinr is going to need it too.

Comment #6

bobodrone commented 2 January 2011 at 11:52

Yes, you are right, there should be a common alter function for all these.
And after getting used to work with these fancy shortcut links for a couple of weeks now, I will have a hard time imagine a life without them... :)
They bring more joy to master panels configuration with other modules.

B.R.
/ Bobodrone

Comment #7

bobodrone commented 24 March 2012 at 00:50

Status	File	Size
new	993990_add_pane_links_hook.patch	656 bytes

So I have now added a hook to panels_renderer_editor "panels_renderer_editor_pane_links" that makes it possible for other modules to add links to the list of links in the pane-dropdown.

I have also created a module "pal" (panels awesome links) which adds the most common links for:
* views
* view panes
* blocks
* menus
* site information
* fields

In the future the other modules should have these links in their own implementation of this new hook but for now for testing you can use this module.
http://drupal.org/sandbox/bobodrone/1497388

/ Bobodrone (NodeOne Sweden)

Comment #8

bobodrone commented 24 March 2012 at 00:29

Status	File	Size
new	pal_screendump.png	169.42 KB

Here is an image showing how it looks.

/ bobodrone

Comment #9

damienmckenna

TN, USA

commented 9 December 2014 at 02:33

Issue summary:	View changes
Parent issue:		» #1774796: Plan for Panels v6.x-3.11 release (PHP 5.4 fix)

Comment #10

vijaycs85

London, UK

commented 10 December 2014 at 11:41

Title:	Add link to a view pane from panels pane edit page	» Add option to provide links to a view pane from panels pane edit page
Version:	6.x-3.8	» 6.x-3.x-dev

Status	File	Size
new	panels-993990-edit-menu-item-10.patch	700 bytes
new	hook_panels_renderer_editor_pane_links+pal.png	20.58 KB

4 files were hidden/shown/deleted

Status	File	Size
hidden	edit_minipanel_from_panels.png	17.01 KB
hidden	add_view_minipanels_links_to_panels.patch	2.57 KB
hidden	pal_screendump.png	169.42 KB
hidden	993990_add_pane_links_hook.patch	656 bytes

patch doesn't apply anymore. Rerolling and tested with PAL module (http://drupal.org/sandbox/bobodrone/1497388) and can see the link appearing (though it goes to wrong path as pal is D7 module) in dropdown (attached screenshot). +1 to RTBC.

Comment #11

vijaycs85

London, UK

commented 10 December 2014 at 11:52

Issue tags:

+API addition, +Needs change record

Comment #12

gmclelland commented 10 December 2014 at 17:56

FYI... we already have a hook_get_pane_links_alter() function for this in the panels module. See #1400884: Custom menu items in pane dropdown links

Right now with the dev releases we have edit links for the following:

custom content panes - committed to ctools - #2108413: Add edit link for custom content panes
mini panels - committed to panels - #1400884: Custom menu items in pane dropdown links
blocks - not committed yet to panels- #2381319: Refactor "Edit block" and add "Edit menu links" items in pane dropdown links
views blocks - not committed yet to views - #2387193: Get an edit link for the views blocks in Page Manger
views panes - not committed yet to views - #1948278: Get an edit link for the view panes in Page Manger

Though it seems that https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/bobodrone/1497388 provides more implementations. It provides edit field links and links to jump to individual portions of the mini panel.

I'm not sure what is the best way to proceed? Any thoughts? Hope that helps