Adding new column in Sales Order View Items in Magento Admin

Question

In the admin interface of Magento I need to modify the tables in the Sales / Order / View order so that it shows, besides the products name, their manufacturer as well.

Answer 1

Admin grids are ofter controlled by their block. For sales it's the Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Grid class

modifying/overriding method _prepareColumns() should do the trick