Question

I have extended the Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Grid class with a custom module to add several customer attributes (Magento EE 1.10) to the grid.

Two of the attributes I added are text fields (i.e. they live in the customer_entity_varchar table, and I was able to add them to the collection and display them in the grid. So far so good.

A third attribute is a select, so the values live in the customer_entity_int, the eav_attribute_option and the eav_attribute_option_value tables. I added the necessary values to the collection (using $collection->getSelect()->joinLeft(.....). Again, so far so good.

My problem is being able to display and filter the attribute at the same time.

Inside the _prepareColumns() function in my MyCompany_MyModule_Block_Adminhtml_Order_Grid class, if I add a column like this, – as expected – I can display the values of the attribute on each row, but I don’t get a drop down filter in the header:

protected function _prepareColumns()
{
    ...
    $this->addColumn('bureau', array(
        'header'    => Mage::helper('sales')->__('Bureau'),
        'index'     => 'bureau',
        'type'      => 'text'
    ));
    ...
}

Following the example of status, and adding the column like this, gives me the drop down filter in the header, but it no longer displays the values for the attribute in each row:

protected function _prepareColumns()
{
    ...
    $this->addColumn('bureau', array(
        'header'    => Mage::helper('sales')->__('Bureau'),
        'index'     => 'bureau',
        'type'      => 'options',
        'options'   => $this->_getBureauOptions(),
        'filter_index' => 'value_option_table.option_id'
    ));
    ...
}   

protected function _getBureauOptions()
{
    $bureau = Mage::getResourceModel('eav/entity_attribute_collection')
        ->setCodeFilter('bureau')
        ->getFirstItem();

    $bureauOptions = $bureau->getSource()->getAllOptions(false);
    $optionsArr = array();

    foreach ($bureauOptions as $option) {
        $optionsArr[$option['value']] = $option['label'];
    }

    return $optionsArr;
} 

Any advice / explanation would be much appreciated.

UPDATE:
It turns out that my code also causes a SQL error in a multi-website environment when an admin user only has permissions for some websites:
"SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1052 Column 'store_id' in where clause is ambiguous"

Answer 1

@clockworkgeek had the answer to the first part of my question.

The problem was that my joinLeft() was retrieving text values from the attribute options, while I should have been retrieving integer values when using 'type => 'options'.

Once I changed my joinLeft() to only retrieve integer values from customer_entity_int (actually a simpler join), the filtering and display worked flawlessly – thank you sir.

I will re-post my second issue (about SQL errors caused by permissions) as a separate question.