Custom action in Pages actionbar

[Heike Franosch]

Hi all,

I have to migrate my custom action configured in the pages app.

In 5.7. it was configured within admincentral, in 6.2 the pages

configuration seems to be read from pages-app.yaml.

Is it possible to insert a custom action in the pages detail actionbar?

Thanks for any help,

Heike

[Roman Kovařík]

Hey Heike,

by clicking on "Show definition decorators" in the Definitions app you can see that the pages app is decorated by various modules, e.g. personalization.

Hope that helps

Roman

[Heike Franosch]

Hi Roman,

thanks for your answer, it helped to start with decorations.

I experimented a lot, but my action does not show up in the pages app.

I can easily add my action to the dam app. So, the config should be fine.

Is there something special about the pages app?

I have:

my-module/decorations/pages/apps/pages/pages.subApps.detail.actionbar.sections.pagePreviewActions.groups.myaction.yaml:

items:
  - name: myaction

my-module/decorations/pages/apps/pages/pages.subApps.detail.actions.myaction.yaml

class: com.xxx.MyActionDefinition
icon: 'icon-edit'
label: 'do something'
dialogId:my-module:pages/myDialog

MyActionDefinition extends OpenDialogActionDefinition

The definition app shows my action, so it is found and configured.

But the action is never shown. I tried setting the availabilty explicit, but it did not help.

Thanks, Heike

[Roman Kovařík]

There is still the compatibility pages app which is actually hidden in the app launcher by default.

The new framework pages app decorator location would be my-module/decorations/pages-app/apps/pages-app.subApps.detail.actions.myaction.yaml.

[Heike Franosch]

Hi Roman,

thanks, that's it.

It's tricky because the config in admincentral was in pages. What's the difference between pages and pages-app?

Both stil exist and influence the system.

Thanks so much, it helped a lot :-)

Heike

[Roman Kovařík]

 What's the difference between pages and pages-app?

Pages-app runs in the new framework

• It's able to convert old framework dialog config at runtime
• It's not able convert custom fields (e.g. custom impl in java)

Pages runs in the old framework, so it can be used 

• till your custom fields are migrated to the new framework
• if you have any, not yet migrated, customization of the app
• any other old apps linking to pages need this app to create the chooser

Thanks so much, it helped a lot :-)

 

You're welcome :-)

Roman