Layout XML “FINAL” Handle

Question

A Magento installation that I'm working on has the EM Quickshop module. In their layout/em_quickshop.xml file they have:

<quickshop_index_view>
    <update handle="catalog_product_view"/> 
</quickshop_index_view>

<quickshop_index_view_FINAL>
    ...

In <quickshop_index_view_FINAL> they <remove /> blocks that we want to keep. Probably just because "final" is such a common word, I'm having a hard time finding anything out about this. But what it seems is that my_handle get's loaded, and then my_handle_FINAL gets loaded, and nothing can come after that.

Therefore, the only way that I can see to un-remove the blocks that they are removing, is to edit their file directly. Is that correct?

Answer 1

Since they remove the blocks, it is indeed not really possible to solve this issue without copying the layout/em_quickshop.xml to your theme and change it there. There are some options though:

1. If you use the extension Layout_Unremove by Alan Storm, you could unremove the blocks in your theme's local.xml with something like that:

   <x-unremove name="product.attributes"/>
   

2. You could re-define the blocks in your theme's local.xml like that:

   <quickshop_index_view_FINAL>
       <reference name="content">
           <block type="catalog/product_view_description" name="my.product.description" as="my.description" template="catalog/product/view/description.phtml">
               <action method="addToParentGroup"><group>detailed_info</group></action>
           </block>
       </reference>
   </quickshop_index_view_FINAL>