Drupal Views: Adding Edit button and other buttons per item

Question

I've setup a view in drupal that lists items like this:

IMAGE 1 | IMAGE 2 | IMAGE 3 | IMAGE 4
 desc   |  desc   |   desc  |  desc

where "desc" is, you guessed it, a description of the node. What I need is to end up with something like this:

IMAGE 1 | IMAGE 2 | IMAGE 3 | IMAGE 4
 desc   |  desc   |   desc  |  desc
 EDIT   |  EDIT   |  EDIT   |  EDIT  
 ACTION | ACTION  | ACTION  | ACTION

Where EDIT goes to the edit page of the various nodes. Also, the ACTION signifies a button that I want to appear underneath the items that navigates to a page, let's call it http://www.mysite.com/action and takes the id as a parameter to end up with something like this: http://www.mysite.com/action/1.

I hope this all makes sense.

The pain in the ass way to solving this is to create a theme file views-view-NAME.tpl.php and manipulate the $rows variable. I just think there must be a better way and I'm obviously just missing something.

So, does anybody know how to do this?

Solution

You can add links and then style them as buttons (if you really need it to look like a button) by doing something like this:

Add the following fields to your view:

• Node: Edit Link (this will take care of permissions for you, only displaying a link for users that have access to edit)
• Node: Nid

In order to get that second field to be an arbitrary link containing the node ID, select the Output this field as a link option when configuring the field. In the Link path box, enter the desired link, something like this:

action/[nid]

or, you can use an absolute url

http://www.example.com/action/[nid]