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how to create custom tab with submenu in admin interface

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Vytautas Germanavičius

Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:00:48 am

i have extension which hase several functions.
How to make theese function acessible from menu in admin interface.

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Bruce Morrison

Wednesday 08 February 2006 2:22:20 pm

Hi Vytis

You need to add a menu.ini.append.php to the settings directory of your extension.

<?php /* #?ini charset="iso-8859-1"?
[NavigationPart]
Part[ezformsnavigationpart]=Forms

[TopAdminMenu]
Tabs[]=[modulename]

[Topmenu_[modulename]]
NavigationPartIdentifier=ez[modulename]navigationpart
Name=[Text you want to appear on tab]
Tooltip=[Tooltip when you mouse over the tab]
URL[]
URL[default]=[URL to extension main function]
Enabled[]
Enabled[default]=true
Enabled[browse]=false
Enabled[edit]=false
Shown[]
Shown[default]=true
Shown[navigation]=true
Shown[browse]=true

*/ ?>

To ensure the Tab is selected when you are within your extension you need to define the function views in modules/modulename/module.php like this

$ViewList["setup"] = array(
    'functions' => array( 'edit' ),
    "script" => "setup.php",
    "params" => array( ),
    "default_navigation_part" => 'ez[modulename]navigationpart'
);

in all examples [modulename] (including [] ) should be replaced with your module name.

HTH

Cheers
Bruce

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Vytautas Germanavičius

Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:09:51 pm

tab in the top - it's easy. i found description how to do it in documentation.
Thing what i missed - how to craete submenu in the left side. I need it , because my extension has several function and i cannot put everything to top menu.
Looked to all ini files, and php files, but i did not found where it is created.
I cannot believe, that menu is hardcoded to templates...

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Łukasz Serwatka

Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:25:34 pm

This is currently not supported by Exponential 3. If you want to add right sub-menu you need to edit design/admin/templates/pagelayout.tpl template.

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Bruce Morrison

Thursday 09 February 2006 3:09:22 pm

Hi Vytis & Lukasz

@Lukasz
This is something I posted as a suggestion back in May 05
http://ez.no/community/bugs/ability_to_include_extension_specific_left_hand_menus_in_admin_interface

Do you know if there is any chance that this may be added ? Having modifed pagelayout for admin just for an extension is a real overkill and makes upgrades an issue.

@Vytis
In the meantime I end up adding the extension specific menu items to the main content area via an include.

Cheers
Bruce

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Łukasz Serwatka

Thursday 09 February 2006 11:44:29 pm

Hi Bruce,

Yes, this will be definitely improved in version 4 of Exponential.

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