how to create custom tab with submenu in admin interface

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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Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:25:34 pm

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

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Thursday 09 February 2006 11:44:29 pm

Hi Bruce,

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

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