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We had a custom block injected in the adminhtml section. This block is managed in a module (let's call it Vendor/Module) & it was working fine in Magento 2.1.*, following this methodology magento 2 - How to create a custom "admin" block and display it on an existing Admin page?

After upgrading to 2.2 the block has disappeared

I have checked for the concrete layout (in our case sales_order_view.xml) for any structural changes in the new version, but containers & blocks look the same as we had in 2.1.*

Any ideas for this?

This is the concrete layout file which worked fine in 2.1.*

app/code/Vendor/Module/view/adminhtml/layout/sales_order_view.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="order_info">
            <block class="Vendor\Module\Block\Adminhtml\Sales\Order\View\Form" name="our_unique_block_name" template="Vendor_Module::our_template.phtml"/>
        </referenceBlock>
    </body>
</page>

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Nero Phung answer was a good try, and led me to the real problem, looking for all sales_order_view appearances in the vendor folder

2.2 version adds Temando_Shipping module, which overrides sales_order_view layout

vendor/temando/module-shipping-m2/view/adminhtml/layout/sales_order_view.xml

<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" layout="admin-2columns-left" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceContainer name="order_tab_info">
            <block class="Temando\Shipping\Block\Adminhtml\Sales\Order\View\Info" name="order_info" template="Temando_Shipping::sales/order/view/info.phtml">
                <container name="extra_customer_info"/>
            </block>
        </referenceContainer>
    </body>
</page>

So I could recover our custom block (using same XML layout as the one we used in 2.1.*) just by adding a module dependency

<module name="Vendor_Module">
    <sequence>
        <module name="Temando_Shipping"/>
    </sequence>
</module>
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    Congratulations!
    – Nero Phung
    Commented Mar 12, 2018 at 16:39
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    Great work Raul, this saved me a lot of time debugging the same issue in our module on 2.2.
    – Jake from TaxJar
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 16:57
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As I can see. Magento has added a new container inside block named order_info:

<block class="Magento\Sales\Block\Adminhtml\Order\View\Info" name="order_info" template="Magento_Sales::order/view/info.phtml">
    <container name="extra_customer_info"/>
</block>

So you can try to use this code below:

<referenceContainer name="extra_customer_info">
     <block class="Vendor\Module\Block\Adminhtml\Sales\Order\View\Form" name="our_unique_block_name" template="Vendor_Module::our_template.phtml"/>
</referenceContainer>

Hope it will help!

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  • I have noticed that layout change in 2.2, but I wasn't sure it should affect... anyways, I have tried changing to <referenceContainer name="extra_customer_info"> but block still doesn't appear
    – Raul Sanchez
    Commented Mar 12, 2018 at 10:39
  • magento.stackexchange.com/a/216961/3566
    – Raul Sanchez
    Commented Mar 12, 2018 at 11:12
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Can you try with referenceContainer?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceContainer name="order_info">
            <block class="Vendor\Module\Block\Adminhtml\Sales\Order\View\Form" name="our_unique_block_name" template="Vendor_Module::our_template.phtml"/>
        </referenceBlock>
    </body>
</page>
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  • What's the purpose of the change? Why using referenceContainer to reference a block?
    – Raul Sanchez
    Commented Mar 12, 2018 at 10:36
  • I use referenceBlock to modify block class (eg change template) and referenceContainer to include over blocks. And it work's
    – Aurélien
    Commented Mar 12, 2018 at 15:16
  • But... I believe you cannot reference a block (using its name) with a referenceContainer instruction
    – Raul Sanchez
    Commented Mar 12, 2018 at 16:27

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