Crowd Plugins and Web-Items

[Steven Hicks]

Is there a way to put a webitem in the left subitem of all the pages?

I've tried various combinations of a web-item with different sections.

So far I have not been given sufficient evidence that:

1. The plugin was loaded [other than an OSGI confirmation that the classes in the Jar exist]

2. That it is ever being shown on ANY of the left submenus. [my goal is to have it on all, but I need at least one confirmation that its working]

[Colin Goudie]

Your best resource is going to be crowd itself, as it shows you the sections for web-items and sections that you'll need to use. The list of these can be obtained in the crowd-web-app/WEB-INF/classes/system-ui-plugin.xml file

e.g. To put a link in the Admin menu on the left

<web-item key="google_home" name="Google Home" section="administrationnav" weight="10">
        <description key="item.google.home.desc">Simple link to google.com.</description>
        <label key="item.google.home.label"/>
        <link linkId="google_home"></link>
</web-item>

You've probably checked out the docs at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWDDEV/Web+Item+Plugin+Modules but these don't appear to have the correct section names listed.

Go off the source as it won't lead you astray

[Colin Goudie]

So did you get it to work in the end though?

[Steven Hicks]

The plugin no, I ended up modifying the source and adding a group membership checker to BaseAction.

[Steven Hicks]

The problem with the source was that I was trying different combinations of *.submenu/* and the web-item would never be displayed. I never even got an indication [outside of OSGi] that the plugin was even loaded. [other than OSGi acknowledgin "heres a plugin"]