Question

a simple question.
In magento, when going to System / Configuration there are some main tabs in left navigation.
General, Catalog, Customer, Sales, Advanced, etc.

I wonder what xml set the order for those? I would love to have Advanced somewhere on top.

Answer 1

Looking at the Mage/Core/etc/system.xml file, I see this near the top:

<config>
    <tabs>
        <general translate="label" module="core">
            <label>General</label>
            <sort_order>100</sort_order>
        </general>
        <service translate="label" module="core">
            <label>Services</label>
            <sort_order>99999</sort_order>
        </service>
        <advanced translate="label" module="core">
            <label>Advanced</label>
            <sort_order>999999</sort_order>
        </advanced>
    </tabs> 
    ...
</config>

I’m guessing (but haven’t verified) that changing the sort_order parameter in this file will change that order for you.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Joe