[Resolved] How do I show a last modified date column in views Admin screen

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[justinG-2]

In the Admin page of the views Plugin is there an option or can I use custom code to show the last modified date of a view. This would be helpful as often times I may be working on alternate versions of a view with a similar name and seeing which one was most recently modified helps to identify them and track changes.

[Shane]

Hi Justin,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Unfortunately we don't have a way to do this. Custom code would be the best route here, but if it helps, your views are stored in the wp_post table and there is a column that stores the last modified.

So some custom code would be needed to add this.

Thanks,
Shane

[justinG-2]

Hi Shane, thanks for your followup and sorry for the late reply.

So in regards to the custom code would it be possible to use the manage_posts_custom_column found here? - https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/manage_$post_type_posts_custom_column

Are "views" essentially a custom post type? And are there any hooks the in the toolset API that could be used in conjunction with this?

[Shane]

Hi Justin,

Essentially, yes views are custom post types .

With regarding an API that can be used with this, unfortunately i'm not aware of any that can be used for this.

Essentially anything that would get this to work would be completely custom and would be needed to hook into the views CPT.

From what I can see the API function here
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/manage_$post_type_posts_custom_column

Should be able to work for this.

Thanks,
Shane

[justinG-2]

Ok, What's the name of the Views Custom Post type that I should use in the filter:
manage_${post_type}_posts_columns ?

I'm using 'view' as the custom post type name like so, but the column doesn't show up.

add_filter('manage_view_posts_columns', 'my_modfied_view_column');

[Christian Cox]

Hi, Shane is on holiday and I'm looking over his queue. I can see that you would like to add a column to the Views admin screen, but unfortunately there is no API available to filter these columns. With public post types, you can use the API Shane mentioned. However, Views are private post types registered by Toolset and as such they are not filterable using standard WordPress column APIs. If you'd like to request the ability to add columns, feel free to submit a feature request at the following link: https://toolset.com/home/contact-us/suggest-a-new-feature-for-toolset/

[justinG-2]

Hi Christian, thanks for following up with this. Much appreciated 🙂

I will consider making this a feature request.

[justinG-2]