Customizing the admin tools menu (Aikau)

This tutorial shows you how to customize the Share header admin tools menu item.

In this tutorial you add several customizations to the Share Header Menu. You create an an SkyVault SDK All-in-One project and add a Share extension project called customize-share-header-menu. Your customization is implemented as a Surf extension module.

Create a new All-in-One SDK project.
In the top-level folder of your All-In-One (AIO) project, create a Share AMP module as part of your AIO project. The instructions for this step are here. Just create the Share AMP using the artifact id customize-share-header-menu and the same group id as your parent AIO project. You do not need to create the Repository AMP.
In the customize-share-header-menu/src/main/amp/config/alfresco/web-extension/site-webscripts folder create a new folder called tutorials

Note: tutorials is the path to the web script in this case, you can use a different path if required.

In your IDE, navigate to the new tutorials folder and create a new webscript file called share-header.get.js] with the following contents:


// Find the admin menu - it'll only be present if the current user is Admin...
var adminMenu = widgetUtils.findObject(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_ADMIN_CONSOLE");
if (adminMenu != null)
{
   // Change the widget to a menu bar popup
   adminMenu.name = "alfresco/header/AlfMenuBarPopup";
   
   // Remove the targetUrl attribute - this isn't strictly necessary but is "cleaner"
   delete adminMenu.config.targetUrl;
   
   // Add a new "widgets" array to the configuration...
   adminMenu.config.widgets = [
      {   
         name: "alfresco/menus/AlfMenuGroup",
         config: {
            label: "Tools", // I'm not bothering with localisation - but you could get localised values using msg.get("..")
            widgets: [
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Application",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/application"
                  }
               },
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Category Manager",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/category-manager"
                  }
               },
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Node Browser",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/node-browser"
                  }
               },
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Tag Manager",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/tag-management"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      {   
         name: "alfresco/menus/AlfMenuGroup",
         config: {
            label: "File Management",
            widgets: [
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Trashcan",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/trashcan"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      {   
         name: "alfresco/menus/AlfMenuGroup",
         config: {
            label: "Content Publishing", 
            widgets: [
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Channel Manager",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/channel-admin"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      {   
         name: "alfresco/menus/AlfMenuGroup",
         config: {
            label: "Repository", 
            widgets: [
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Replication Jobs",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/replication-jobs"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      {   
         name: "alfresco/menus/AlfMenuGroup",
         config: {
            label: "Users and Groups", 
            widgets: [
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Groups",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/groups"
                  }
               },
               {
                  name: "alfresco/header/AlfMenuItem",
                  config:
                  {
                     label: "Users",
                     targetUrl: "console/admin-console/users"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      }
   ];
}

In your IDE navigate to the customize-share-header-menu/src/main/amp/config/alfresco/web-extension/site-data/extensions folder, and create a new extension file called custom-header-extension.xml that contains the following extension definition:


<extension>
  <modules>
    <module>
      <id>Custom Share Header Menu</id>
      <version>1.0</version>
      <customizations>
        <customization>
          <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco.share.header</targetPackageRoot>
          <sourcePackageRoot>tutorials</sourcePackageRoot>
        </customization>
      </customizations>
    </module>
  </modules>
</extension>

Run the run.sh command to add your new Surf extension module.
Note: The extension module needs to be deployed before it will be visible. In your browser, go to http://localhost:8080/share/service/modules/deploy.
You see a list of available Modules and a list of deployed Modules.
Select Custom Share Header Menu and click Add to move it into the Deployed Modules list.
Click Apply Changes.
Note that the Last update time stamp changes. You only need to do this action once as Module Deployment data is saved into the repository.
Now log back in to Share and click on the Admin Tools menu item - you can see it is now a drop-down menu list.

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