Link to specific tab in back office

[Jarred Mack]

I'm currently in the process of updating a module which is not supported for Prestashop 1.5 (we purchased it before realising), and I am most of the way there. However, I am having issues figuring out how to refresh a specific tab on the Products page [back office] (that is, when a product is selected for editing). I have tried adding &action=[TabName] to the URL (along with all of the other relevant information like controller and &updateproduct), which I even copied straight from the URLs each of the tabs actually link to. The links still default back to the "Information" tab when I load the page.

 

My question is, is there a built in ajax call to refresh a specific tab without reloading the entire page and defaulting back to the "Information" tab; and if not, how do I create a link that will allow me to post back to the same page and default to a specific tab?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

*Edit*

 

I found that &key_tab=[Tab Name] posts back to the same tab, so that appears to be the solution I was after.

Edited November 19, 2012 by Jarred Mack (see edit history)

[Jarred Mack]

As an update, I was looking through the other product tabs to see if any pages had similar functionality, and I came across the Suppliers page which tells the user to click "Save and Stay" to refresh the page, which then refreshes and loads the correct tab. I will look for the Save and Stay code now and see if I can use that; does anyone happen to know where that code lives?

[Jarred Mack]

I've run into another issue now... the module is currently using echo statements to print out the form data, so when I load directly to the tab, this data is just being dumped at the top of the page. What do I have to assign the form data to in order to get it to print inside the form like the other products tabs?

 

*Edit*

 

The hook is actually trying to assign the form data to tpl_form_vars['custom_form'], so I've solved this issue by returning my output to the hook instead of echoing in the module itself.

 

This is currently "working", but I have run into another issue. When I click a link to post back to the module tab, it processes correctly and displays the form as expected. However, if I click on the form field, the onClick event deletes the value in the key_tab hidden field, sets the module to display: none, and breaks the JS on the rest of the page. Any ideas?

Edited November 20, 2012 by Jarred Mack (see edit history)