Customize Admin Templates for Professional and Enterprise Editionen

By default, the templates in source/Application/views/admin/tpl cannot be customized/extended if they are also delivered in OXID eShop Professional and Enterprise Edition (see bug record https://bugs.oxid-esales.com/view.php?id=6822). The reason for this is the mandatory loading priority of the admin templates. But what if an individual template for PE/EE is needed?

Using article_extend.tpl from EE as an example, I would like to show you a solution.

First, create a patch from vendor/oxid-esales/oxideshop-ee/Application/views/admin/tpl/article_extend.tpl that includes the desired changes and save it to your repository under patches/oxideshop_ee/article_extend_custom_block.patch .

The content of the patch could look like this:

Index: Application/views/admin/tpl/article_extend.tpl
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
diff --git a/Application/views/admin/tpl/article_extend.tpl b/Application/views/admin/tpl/article_extend.tpl
--- a/Application/views/admin/tpl/article_extend.tpl	(revision e0412f0c2cca7d44036fca5ca036ed99d9ccee65)
+++ b/Application/views/admin/tpl/article_extend.tpl	(revision e158f8c52b9dd378b3101445b24bb03e41b2181a)
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
                   [{oxinputhelp ident="HELP_ARTICLE_EXTEND_MASS"}]
                 </td>
               </tr>
+              [{block name="myCustomBlock"}][{/block}]
 
               <tr>
                 <td class="edittext">

Next make sure that this is rolled out using Composer (basis for this is https://oxidforge.org/en/applying-patches-to-oxid-eshop-projects-with-composer.html), i.e. we have to modify our composer.json like this:

Run composer update now and you have a consistent patch for the EE template, which is applied under vendor/oxid-esales/oxideshop-ee/Application/views/admin/tpl/article_extend.tpl.