I've created a couple custom sections with trees and they are working as intended. I want them to load a custom dashboard before a node record is edited or created and I cannot seem to get this right.
I have the view created with an angular controller and it loads (in the content area) if I replace <area>jobs</area> with <area>content</area>
The minute I try the following though I lose the tab, view and controller in my own section area. I suspect i'm not defining <area>jobs</area> or my application tree controller is missing something
<section alias="JobsSection"> // application alias from .cs
<areas>
<area>jobs</area> // application name from .cs
</areas>
<tab caption="Current Postings">
<control>/app_plugins/JobsSection/backoffice/dashboards/default.html</control>
</tab>
</section>
My application .cs looks like this:
[Application("JobsSection", "Jobs","icon-employee", 103)]
public class JobsSection : IApplication
{
}
Thanks, that did it. It was case sensitive. Can you implore the folks with access to update the documentation. I'm thankful its working now...and I feel foolish for not trying that. I'm sure I tried "jobsection" not "JobSection" because the documentation states lower case...
Just a note to anyone who is also having this problem, I just spent an inordinate amount of time stumbling over myself trying to get this to work because I followed the documentation and thought it had to be lowercase. I had the EXACT same problem as Max and tried the solution posted by Dave but it still didn't work, so here's how it actually works for all who may encounter this problem in the future.
My application definition is as follows:
[Application("TestSection", "Test", "icon-car", 15)]
public class TestSection : IApplication
{
}
Now by Dave's post my definition in Dashboard.config seemed to have to be set as "TestSection", but that didn't work! Instead it is supposed to be Test. The following worked and allowed me to finally see something in the dashboard for my custom section:
So, your your area name MUST be EXACTLY what you have as the application name that follows. Anything else and nothing will happen at all, no error, no display, much frustration! I'm adding this to the documentation as we speak.
Custom Section Dashboard
I've created a couple custom sections with trees and they are working as intended. I want them to load a custom dashboard before a node record is edited or created and I cannot seem to get this right.
I have the view created with an angular controller and it loads (in the content area) if I replace
<area>jobs</area>with<area>content</area>The minute I try the following though I lose the tab, view and controller in my own section area. I suspect i'm not defining
<area>jobs</area>or my application tree controller is missing somethingMy application .cs looks like this:
My manifest looks like:
Hi Max,
I think the area should match the alias of your custom section. So in your case that should be JobsSection.
Dave
A thousand thanks Dave! This fixed it for me :)
Dave,
Thanks, that did it. It was case sensitive. Can you implore the folks with access to update the documentation. I'm thankful its working now...and I feel foolish for not trying that. I'm sure I tried "jobsection" not "JobSection" because the documentation states lower case...
Hi Max,
Glad you could solve your issue.
The docs are open source by the way : https://github.com/umbraco/UmbracoDocs
So you can fork the repository, change the docs and create a pull request for it.
If the pull request get's approved the docs will be updated.
The page you need to change is this one : https://github.com/umbraco/UmbracoDocs/blob/master/Extending/Dashboards/index.md
Dave
That's great Dave.
I'll put it through in the near future! ... I need to make up some lost development time first ;-)
Max
Just a note to anyone who is also having this problem, I just spent an inordinate amount of time stumbling over myself trying to get this to work because I followed the documentation and thought it had to be lowercase. I had the EXACT same problem as Max and tried the solution posted by Dave but it still didn't work, so here's how it actually works for all who may encounter this problem in the future.
My application definition is as follows:
Now by Dave's post my definition in Dashboard.config seemed to have to be set as "TestSection", but that didn't work! Instead it is supposed to be Test. The following worked and allowed me to finally see something in the dashboard for my custom section:
So, your your area name MUST be EXACTLY what you have as the application name that follows. Anything else and nothing will happen at all, no error, no display, much frustration! I'm adding this to the documentation as we speak.
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