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Extra custom field?

ChristopherDavies 5 Jan 2012 12:44 question, complete

Hi. Okay, this may be a bit of a tall order, but I was wondering how I could get a thumbnail from a standard EE file field to display next to the title in the reorder page.

I managed to get the path to display, i.e. {filedir_2}nameoffile.jpg but I cant work out how I can get the {filedir_2} part to locate the correct location.

Is there any way you could help me with this?

Thank you

Replies

  1. Low 5 Jan 2012 13:21

    Well, this requires hacking the CP file, which is of course not supported. But if you need to replace the {filedir_x} variables, I believe the Typography class takes care of that.

  2. ChristopherDavies 5 Jan 2012 13:38

    Unfortunately my level of coding means I don't have a clue how I can accomplish that! Would you be willing to share with me how I can achieve this? as I imagine a lot of other uses would like to do this.

    Many Thanks

  3. Low 5 Jan 2012 14:29

    I already did some research about adding extra custom fields to the reorder list. Take a look at this reply to a feature request. Adding custom fields to the reorder list is not an easy feat, especially taking 3rd party field types into account. That's why it's not possible at the moment.

    I will try and examine some sort of alternative for version 2, but it will take significant rewrite of the code.