Magento Config XML Path

Question

In my custom module I have added a tab to the admin configuration section to manage service providers for an external service. I have creted the following group in my system.xml of my module:

<section>
 <mymodule>
 <groups name="providers">
 <provider1>
 <label>Provider 1</label>
 <sort_order>100</sort_order>
 <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
 <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
 <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
 <fields>
 <name>
 <label>Name</label>
 <frontend_type>text</frontend_type>
 <sort_order>10</sort_order>
 <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
 <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
 <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
 </name>
 </fields>
 </provider1>
 <provider2>
 <label>Provider 2</label>
 <sort_order>320</sort_order>
 <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
 <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
 <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
 <fields>
 <name>
 <label>Name</label>
 <frontend_type>text</frontend_type>
 <sort_order>10</sort_order>
 <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
 <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
 <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
 </name>
 </fields>
 </provider2>
 </groups>
 </mymodule>
</section>

This results in my config using the following path:

mymodule/provider1/name or mymodule/provider2/name

What I would like to do is use the following path:

mymodule/providers/provider1/name etc

I thought that i might be able to just wrap the providers in a node bu tthis doesn't work. I appreciate that I am trying to massage the structure of the xml in order to get please the path, but in doing so it will help me to target just the providers which I need to do for the options used on drop-down select.

Answer 1

This is the right way to write system.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
 <tabs>
 <catalog translate="label" module="catalog">
 <label>Catalog</label>
 <sort_order>200</sort_order>
 </catalog>
 </tabs>
 <sections>
 <catalog translate="label" module="catalog">
 <class>separator-top</class>
 <label>Catalog</label>
 <tab>catalog</tab>
 <frontend_type>text</frontend_type>
 <sort_order>40</sort_order>
 <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
 <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
 <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
 <groups>
 <frontend translate="label">
 <label>Frontend</label>
 <frontend_type>text</frontend_type>
 <sort_order>100</sort_order>
 <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
 <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
 <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
 <fields>
 <list_mode translate="label">
 <label>List Mode</label>
 <frontend_type>select</frontend_type>
 <source_model>adminhtml/system_config_source_catalog_listMode</source_model>
 <sort_order>1</sort_order>
 <show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
 <show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
 <show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
 </list_mode>
 </fields>
 </frontend>
 </groups>
 </catalog>
 </sections>
</config>

You need to define tab, also use sections instead of section. You can get idea from default system.xml files.

Hope this help!

• Alan A: in my example I stripped out the lines of the xml which were not related to my question. Your example doesn't address the issue at hand - how to wrap the group inside a <providers> node