[opencms-dev] Create Admin Module

[Eke, Kemi]

Hi Darin

I've been working on creating my own admin module and have come across the
same problem, but I've found a "dirty fix".  Presuming you are working in
the en_workspace, you can add your icon strapline to the
workplace.properties file found in the help directory, so for instance in a
windows install of opencms, you'll find that file in

C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29\webapps\opencms\WEB-INF\classes\org\opencms\help

Open up this workplace properties, (I know it's a bit of a kludge because I
can't find any file in the fat binary install that has all the other
icon.xxx names in it bar manifest.xml) and simply place your title in this.
So if you have a folder in /system/workplace/administration called darin,
then the properties could be:

NavPos: -400
NavText: icon.darin
Title: ic_darin
visiblemethod:com.opencms.workplace.CmsWorkplaceDefault.isAdmin

In the workplace properties file in the location described above simply add

icon.darin=My Module

Should appear on reboot of OpenCms

HTH

Kind Regards

Kemi Eke

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Message: 7
From: "Darin Kuntze" <dkuntze at thinksacco.com>
To: <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Create Admin Module
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:29:23 -0600
Organization: The Sacco Group
Reply-To: opencms-dev at opencms.org

I tried that and it did not work.

Here's what I tried:

/system/modules/com.mymodule.www/classes/workplace.properties
Contains:
com_mymodule_www_psadmin.icon.navtext=User Admin

/system/modules/com.mymodule.www/administration/psadmin
Has the following properties:
NavPos:220
NavText:com_mymodule_www_psadmin.icon.navtext
Title:ic_admin_psadmin

The icon shows up fine (from the pics directory), but no label.

Any input?




I think this is the case:

The label comes from a properties file (workplace.properties which belongs
in the classes directory of the module), I think it is done like this to
facilitate having different languages.

You have to restart to see changes made to properties files.




From:  "Darin Kuntze" <dkuntze at thinksacco.com>@opencms.org  on 30/03/2004
       14:34 CST

Please respond to opencms-dev at opencms.org

Sent by:    opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org


                                                                          
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I posted a few questions about creating a new admin module a while back and
I'm only now getting around to doing it... and I have run into a problem:

I can't seem to get my icon's caption to appear in the admin section. The
icon shows up fine, but I get the "??" navtext caption instead of my
intended caption.

What are the steps to getting a my module's navtext to display properly?

What should the navtext property of my module point to? etc...



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