New Section in ControlPanel

[Deepjyoti Nath, modificado hace 13 años.]

Hi,
Is it possible to add a new Section under control panel? By default when an adminstrator goes to control panel, he can see portlets under Content, Portal and Server sections. Is it possible to add a custom section under which custom user created portlets can be put? If yes can anyone please provide a solution?

Thanks in advance!!!

[Piotr Filipowicz, modificado hace 13 años.]

Hi!
It's possible to add custom section in control panel.
The simpliest way is create ext environment in your project and override com.liferay.portal.util.PortletCategoryKeys util.

For example add Test section:

public static final String TEST = "test";
public static final String[] ALL = {MY, CONTENT, PORTAL, SERVER, TEST};

Then you go into your specific portlet and put <control-panel-entry-category>test</control-panel-entry-category> in liferay-portlet.xml

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Best regards,
Piotr Filipowicz

[Deepjyoti Nath, modificado hace 13 años.]

Hi Piotr,

Thnaks for your reply. Now my custom section is coming in the Control Panel. But instead of Test, the section is coming as "category.test". How this "category" has been appended?

Thanks again.

[Piotr Filipowicz, modificado hace 13 años.]

Hello again!
This is easy. Put the key category.<your_category_name> in Language.properties or Language_<your country>.properties.

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Piotr Filipowicz

[Piotr Filipowicz, modificado hace 13 años.]

Sory, I read your post in a hurry.

Deepjyoti Nath:

How this "category" has been appended?

"Category" is append in file: portal/portal-web/docroot/html/portlet/control_panel_menu/view.jsp

title = LanguageUtil.get(pageContext, "category." + curCategory);

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Piotr Filipowicz

[Mati Khan, modificado hace 13 años.]

Hi,

Can you tell me where you placed the package com.liferay.portal.util in ext-plugin

in ext-impl or ext-service

And example will be good to implement it.

Thanks.

[Piotr Filipowicz, modificado hace 13 años.]

This is very good question. This class should be in the portal-service package. But in the ext plugin you cannot override PortletCategoryKeys. This is not as easy as I thought. So, you'll need change your liferay source?!?

Who can give us better way?

[Daniel Lipski, modificado hace 12 años.]

Hi,

I got exactly the same issue. Have you found solution for this ?

Reagrds
Daniel

[Tomas Polesovsky, modificado hace 12 años.]

Hi,

I don't know which version do you use - so take it as a tutorial

You'll need to use Ext Plugin.

1, in liferay source of your version find ./portal-impl/src/com/liferay/portal/util/PortalImpl.java and search for lines with PortletCategoryKeys.ALL.
2, create new class MyPortalImpl that extends PortalImpl and override the methods you find (replace PortletCategoryKeys.ALL with new String[]{....})
3. using your ext-spring.xml redefine bean: <bean id="com.liferay.portal.util.Portal" class="xxx.MyPortalImpl" />
4, copy portal-web/docroot/html/portlet/control_panel_menu/view.jsp from liferay sources into ext-web/docroot/html/portlet/control_panel_menu/view.jsp and change

String[] allCategories = PortletCategoryKeys.ALL;

into

String[] allCategories = new String[]{....}

I think this way could work.

[Apoorva Prakash, modificado hace 12 años.]

Hi all,
In my case, making category entry in language-ext.properties worked.
So why it is needed to modify the view.jsp of control panel, I can't understand.
Thanks

[Nguyen Hong Duy Anh, modificado hace 9 años.]

I want set permission for my custom portlet in custom section I was created. I don't see my portlet in Add Permission select menu. I think because my portlet put in my custom section. I see the icon of my custom section is a User icon. So, how do I set permission for my custom section like a content section. I want add permission for my custom portlet in custom section.
Sr for my english.
Thanks

[Deepjyoti Nath, modificado hace 13 años.]

Thanks man!!!