How to Add Tabs to Drupal pages
How to Add Tabs to Drupal pages
12 comment(s)BEWARE: INCREDIBLY SIMPLE
These steps work for:
Drupal 6
Drupal 7
The Need
We had a client request come in that required for us to add a new tab to the user profile for a new page.
The Problem
How in the world of Drupal are you supposed to add a tab? Use hook_menu_alter? No. Custom Module? No. Add it to a menu somewhere? No. (I mean, if you feel like spending more time than necessary you could do the first perhaps.)
The Solution
VIEWS! I told you it would be incredibly simple.
Step 1:
Create your new view.
Step 2:
Add a display: Page
Step 3: (Important Step)
Under "Page Settings" for "Path" you will need to set the path for the page under the parent page.
For Example:
If you want to add a Tab to all of the User profiles on your website, set your path as "user/%/yourtab". (% will become the uid of the profile being viewed)
Step 4:
Also under "Page Settings" is "Menu", set this to "Menu Tab" or "Default Menu Tab". From there you will set your Tab's title, description and it's parent item.
Step Done:
That's it, you're finished! Now you may run free and set up your one of a kind, mastermind view!
In Picture Book Format
Simple indeed, but so useful!
Comments
Anonymous
Ta very much I was just about
Ta very much I was just about to start on this exact problem :)
codeninja
Thanks Mate
Yep easy !! - I Feel like a tool for making a custom module just to display some custom text in a new user tab for drupal - this has saved me alot of time today as I am just phoning it in at work today.
SAmaral
You're Welcome
That's great! I'm glad this was able to help you out.
Karen
tabs
I am working on a Drupal upgrade for my website. There are different levels of pages. The page that I need to have tabs at is the actual "document" page, which will have several tabs, which are tied to the database. Here is a list of the different tabs
Document
Transcription
Background Info
Related Documents
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How can I set up my Drupal so that every document page contains these tabs?
Here is a sample of what the document page would look like
http://lincolnarchives.org/alfred-purinton-1.html
Thanks much,
Karen
SAmaral
Views not quite Compatible
Hi Karen,
Had a few questions for you,
If you're using Drupal 6 or 7?
Are the Document Pages of a certain content type called Documents?
Everything Drupal does in relation to these paths is based on the current URL you have entered in. From what I have found and tested, views is not very compatible with pathauto.
So if you have these nodes set up for example as "documents/test-doc" and it has a node id of 10, then your path settings would need to be "node/6/tab-name" instead of "documents/test-doc/tab-name". And to have it display on every document page you would need to use "node/%/tab-name".
However, this will then place the tab on every node page and not just document content types. I do wish I could tell you to just use "documents/%/tab-name" and that would work, but at this point that doesn't appear to be possible.
This best way to accomplish this would be the creation of a custom module and using hook_menu function along with MENU_LOCAL_TASK. A good article showing this would be here: http://timonweb.com/how-add-tab-node-drupal
I hope this helps, thank you!
-Spencer
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This is awesome. I spent hours messing with hook_menu_alter and then I ran into this post and was done in 3 minutes. You are the best.
Anonymous
Hi! Very nice! Thanks for the
Hi!
Very nice! Thanks for the post!!
Regards,
Carlos.
Anonymous
Perfect!
I'm new to Drupal and the reason I'm here is because I want to write less code, not more. Every solution I found was some kind of custom code hack. I knew there had to be a better way. You win the Internet for today.
Chris Routh
Making Tab appear on page?
Hi,
Thanks for your tutorial. For the most part it worked like a charm, though I had one hiccup.
The page adds to the view as a tab as expected, however when going to the page itself, the 'View' 'Edit' etc.. tabs take over, and you can no longer see the tabs of the view.
Is there a way to have both tab sets appear together, or maybe push the local task down to the secondary local tasks to prevent the views tabs from being overridden?