How to include custom customer attribute in to magento admin customer grid?

Question

I added customer mobile no while customer register in the registration page.

The created mobile no is attribute stored in eav_attribute table with entity_type_id 1.

I tried to add these field in the admin grid view on the customer page.

I edit the grid.php file and adding these lines to grid.php

$this->addColumn('Telephone', array(
        'header'    => Mage::helper('customer')->__('Telephone'),
        'width'     => '100',
        'index'     => 'billing_telephone'
    ));
$this->addColumn('mobile', array(
        'header'    => Mage::helper('customer')->__('Mobile'),
        'width'     => '100',
        'index'     => 'mobile'
    ));

The label is shown in the view after Telephone, but the value for the mobile no is not retrieved in the grid. How can i retrieve the value of mobile number in the grid?

Answer 1

Look for _prepareCollection() method in customer grid class Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Customer_Grid and add ->addAttributeToSelect('mobile')

Also, you shouldn't edit core files directly.