As you may know, Magento provides template path hints function to help you debug your template. However, this function is only available in front-end. Sometimes, you need to debug the template in back-end. How should you do? I have a tip to enable template path hints for magento admin.

In the configuration file (config.xml) of an active module, you can insert the following code:

<config>
...
<default>
<dev>
<debug>
<template_hints>1</template_hints>
<template_hints_blocks>1</template_hints_blocks>
</debug>
</dev>
</default>
</config>

This code will enable template path hints for all pages in your Magento sites (including admin and front-end). In case you want to enable it in admin only, you can use the code below:

<config>
...
<websites>
<admin>
<dev>
<debug>
<template_hints>1</template_hints>
<template_hints_blocks>1</template_hints_blocks>
</debug>
</dev>
</admin>
</websites>
</config>

Hope this post help you to debug the code in magento admin!