Custom admin-tool showing up in the admin-tools sub-menu

Hans Kindberg

Vote:

I am working on migration from CMS 11 to CMS 12. The site have some gui-plugins. In this case the gui-plugins are web-forms implemented like this:

[GuiPlugIn(Area = PlugInArea.AdminMenu, Description = "My plugin-description", DisplayName = "My plugin", LanguagePath = "/admin/myplugin", UrlFromUi = "Admin/MyPlugIn.aspx")]
public class MyPlugIn : EPiServer.Shell.WebForms.WebFormsBase
{
    ...
}

They are located here in the gui:

The GuiPlugIn attribute is not supported in CMS 12. Instead, it says here, we should use menu-providers:

https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/content-cloud/v12.0.0-content-cloud/docs/breaking-changes-in-content-cloud-cms-12#guiplugin

I have read and tested the following article:

Extending The Admin Interface in Optimizely CMS 12

With a menu provider you get something like this:

I would like to get my tools showing up in the sub-menu under admin-tools. Like this:

Is it possible to get my custom plugins showing up under tools? If so, how do you do it?

#294827

Edited, Jan 17, 2023 9:31

Mark Hall

Vote:

const string CmsAdminMenuPath = MenuPaths.Global + "/cms/admin";
 public IEnumerable<MenuItem> GetMenuItems()
        {
            return new List<MenuItem>
            {
                  new UrlMenuItem(_localizationService.GetString("/myplugin"),
                    CmsAdminMenuPath + "/tools/mylpugin", Paths.ToResource(GetType(), "mypluginpath"))
                {
                    SortIndex = 50,
                    Alignment = MenuItemAlignment.Left,
                    AuthorizationPolicy = CmsPolicyNames.CmsAdmin
                }
            };
        }

#294902

Jan 18, 2023 16:26

agibbles - Jan 18, 2023 19:45

When I try this approach, my custom admin screens show up as new sub-tabs next to tools instead of on the left-hand side within the tools screen.

Hans Kindberg - Jan 19, 2023 6:19

@Mark Hall
Thank you for your answer. I get the same result as @agibbles.

Mark Hall

Vote:

Looking at the code you will not be able to add to the existing left menu because that is a react component and does not use the menu provider options to populate.

#294978

Jan 19, 2023 16:16

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Custom admin-tool showing up in the admin-tools sub-menu