06
Mar
2010
Grayside

Moving OpenAtrium Node Form Elements to the Right Column

Previously, I discussed how you could move CCK fields into the node form sidebar by careful fieldgroup naming.

If you are of a programmer’s bent, you might instead try the more flexible programmer’s solution–preprocessor function. I dug this out of the atrium_blog feature.

This code snippet isolates a nodereference field attached to blog content and pushes it into the sidebar. This should work to move entire fieldgroups of form elements too.

/**
 * Preprocessor for theme('node_form').
 */
function atrium_blog_preprocess_node_form(&$vars) {
  if (!empty($vars['form']['field_referenced_book_page'])) {
    $vars['sidebar']['field_referenced_book_page'] = $vars['form']['field_referenced_book_page'];
    unset($vars['form']['field_referenced_book_page']);
  }
}

OpenAtrium 1.0-beta8

As of Beta 8, the above code does not seem to work. I haven’t found the ideal solution, but it’s match in Beta8 is as follows:
This is the result of Open Atrium’s move to using the Nodeformcols to facilitate sidebar wrangling.

/**
 * Preprocessor function for node form.
 * Move CCK field to the sidebar.
 */
function custom_preprocess_node_form($vars) {
  if (!empty($vars['form']['nodeformcols_region_main']['field_sidebar_reference'])) {
    $vars['form']['nodeformcols_region_right']['field_sidebar_reference'] = $vars['form']['nodeformcols_region_main']['field_sidebar_reference'];
    unset($vars['form']['nodeformcols_region_main']['field_sidebar_reference']);
  }
}
Terms: 
node-form
openatrium