# Allowing behaviours to add structure to the site admin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allowing-behaviours-to-add-structure-to-the-site-admin/62902>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [June 9, 2006, 8:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allowing-behaviours-to-add-structure-to-the-site-admin/62902 "2006-06-09T08:26:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dasch)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 8:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allowing-behaviours-to-add-structure-to-the-site-admin/62902/1 "2006-06-09T08:26:05Z")

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I’m looking at migrating a fairly substantial back-catalogue of articles  
and other content into radiant, and the handling of articles under the  
archive behaviour looks to get pretty unwieldy once you’ve got a  
couple-hundred articles there.

I’m proposing adding a way to allow behaviours to modify the structure  
of their children as displayed on the administration tree. Attached is a  
fairly hacky implementation of this (diff against current svn - revision  
56). I only started poking around the codebase a couple of hours ago, so  
go gentle on me.

This would also be useful for a second behaviour I plan to add to  
separate child pages alphabetically.

Does anybody else see the value in pushing forward with this?