Tuesday 26 July 2011 4:59:33 am

Hi Anne, and welcome to the eZ Community !

Say we start off this view : /collaboration/view/summary, using this template :

design/admin2/templates/collaboration/view/summary.tpl

At line 24., another template is included, to display the list of collaboration elements : 

design/admin2/templates/collaboration/item_list.tpl

At line 27 in the latter, collaboration_view_gui is called (this function works the same way as node_view_gui, which you may be more familiar with) triggering the load of the following template when the collaboration item is related to content approval : 

design/admin2/templates/collaboration/handlers/view/line/ezapprove.tpl

We are nearing the holy grail : from line 8 to line 23, the switch statement is made against the $item.data_int3 variable, which contains the status of the approval (pending, approved, awaiting your approval, denied). That is the data you need to build what you described, if i understood correctly.

A solution can be to create an override for this last template (the proper way : in an extension, as explained here) and alter the display logic.

Let us know how things go,
Cheers, 

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