Manners_Widgets

Magento Widget extension add some useful features to the Magento_Widget module.

Features

• Multiple selection for products,

How it works

Products

The product part of the system is based around the widget of type manners_widgets/products. This widget is defined in the xml file app/code/community/Manners/Widgets/etc/widget.xml. The widget comes with a chooser with the helper type manners_widgets/catalog_product_widget_chooser.

The chooser is based from the Magento standard chooser Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Widget_Chooser but to make it work with mass actions the following has been changed:

• define new massaction block in _construct,
• add custom columns in _prepareColumns,
• add massaction items in _prepareMassaction,
• update chooser to use custom url in prepareElementHtml,

The chooser will end up using the controller app/code/community/Manners/Widgets/controllers/Adminhtml/Product/Multiple/WidgetController.php. This controller is again the same as the standard Mage_Adminhtml_Catalog_Product_WidgetController apart from it uses manners_widgets/catalog_product_widget_chooser to build the grid.

The class app/code/community/Manners/Widgets/Block/Catalog/Product/Massaction.php is used to extend the JavaScript for row and button selection. This will make sure that the varienGridMassaction is updated correctly and the selection is taken into account.

There is also an extension of the standard JavaScript under js/manners/adminhtml/widgets.js for the following:

• add new parameter,
• extend varienGridMassaction.onGridRowClick to set new parameter with the text value no id value of the row,

ToDo

• Multiple selection for categories,
• Second load of selection before save,