View a product/category in the catalog from a link in admin product/category listing

I wanted an quick way to get to the catalog page of the category or product I was editing in the Admin, so this is what I did...this may be of interest to others

Both edits are in admin/includes/modules/category_product_listing.php

1. Category Link
   In the admin category listing I made the category title a link to the shop category:
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<td class="pageHeading"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?> - <?php echo zen_output_generated_category_path($current_category_id); ?></td>

to

td class="pageHeading"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?> - <?php //ORIGINAL echo zen_output_generated_category_path($current_category_id); 
            echo '<a href="' . zen_catalog_href_link('index', zen_get_path($current_category_id)) . '" target="_blank" title="View in shop">' . zen_output_generated_category_path($current_category_id) . '</a>'; ?>
            </td>

and a bit of extra css to make it look consistent:

h1,.pageHeading, .pageHeading a{
color:#003D00; /727272/
font-size:16px;
font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:bold;
}

2. Product Link
   In admin product listing I made the product id a link for me to drag and drop which opens a new window in my browser configuration. I found that having the link open a new window with "_blank" would work but the admin product-edit page would open too, maybe someone knows how to stop the jscript row select from firing in this case.

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<td class="dataTableContent" width="20" align="right"><?php echo $products->fields['products_id']; ?></td>

to

<td class="dataTableContent" align="right" valign="middle"><?php //original echo $products->fields['products_id']; 
                echo '<a href="' . zen_catalog_href_link('product_info','cPath='.zen_get_product_path($products->fields['products_id']).'&products_id='.$products->fields['products_id']) . '" title="View in shop">' .  $products->fields['products_id'] . '</a>'; ?></td>

I have not tested this, but peeking at the Products Price Manager for the View Details, I grabbed this and added the products_id that I think you need:

'<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_CATEGORIES, 'cPath=' . zen_get_product_path($products->fields['products_id']) . '&pID=' . $products->fields['products_id'] . '&product_type=' . zen_get_products_type($products->fields['products_id'])) . '">'

See if that helps you out ...

See if that helps you out ..

Thanks but, that link construct goes to the admin category page for that product whereas I am talking about a link from the admin poruct listing to that product info page in the catalog. The example I posted works...just 2) does not open a new tab/window automatically.

On the TR take out the mouse over ...

I just comment out the two TR and beneath the IF put in:

        echo '<tr class="dataTableRow" >';

Then on the TD put in:

                <td class="dataTableContent" width="20" align="right"><?php echo '<a href="' . zen_catalog_href_link('product_info', 'cPath=' . zen_get_product_path($products->fields['products_id']) . '&products_id=' . $products->fields['products_id']) . '" title="View in shop" target="_blank">' . $products->fields['products_id'] . '</a>'; ?></td>

You lose the mouse over but your still have the E for EDIT and now you don't get the Preview when you click the link ...

If you want the mouse over, add another icon for Preview instead of using the products_id ...

I decided to keep the highlighting but remove the mouseover href as it is a bit pointless really, the number of times I've gone into Edit when I wanted to enable/disable....
Thanks