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Dominic Tse 21 posts 110 karma points

May 25, 2017 @ 23:08

Create a new Dashboard item in Umbraco backoffice via Dashboard.config and applications.config

Extending Umbraco and using the API

Umbraco 7

I am trying to create a new item on the left hand side in Umbraco backoffice main dashboard via Dashboard.config and applications.config. I don't know why the new item doesn't appear on the dashboard.

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I've added

Dashboard.config

  <section alias="StartupXxxDashboardSection">
    <areas>
      <area>xxx</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="xxx">
      <control>
        /umbraco/backoffice/xxx/abc
      </control>
    </tab>   
  </section>

applications.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<applications>
  <add alias="content" name="Content" icon="traycontent" sortOrder="0" />
  <add alias="media" name="Media" icon="traymedia" sortOrder="1" />
  <add alias="settings" name="Settings" icon="traysettings" sortOrder="2" />
  <add alias="developer" name="Developer" icon="traydeveloper" sortOrder="3" />
  <add alias="users" name="Users" icon="trayuser" sortOrder="4" />
  <add alias="member" name="Members" icon="traymember" sortOrder="5" />
  <add alias="forms" name="Forms" icon="icon-umb-contour" sortOrder="6" />
  <add alias="translation" name="Translation" icon="traytranslation" sortOrder="7" />
  <add alias="xxx" name="Xxx" icon="traymedia" sortOrder="8" />
</applications>

Added the following in area alias="sections" in en.xml

<key alias="xxx">Xxx</key>

Is there anything missing that prevents the new XXX item appear on the Dashboard?

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David Brendel 792 posts 2970 karma points MVP 3x c-trib

May 26, 2017 @ 08:53
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Hi Dominic,

it should look like this in application.config:
```
<add alias="demoPackage" name="DemoPackage" icon="icon-calendar-alt" sortOrder="8" />
```
In dashboard.config:
```
<section alias="DemoPackageSection">
    <areas>
      <area>demoPackage</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="DemoPackageDashboard">
      <control addPanel="true" panelCaption="">/App_Plugins/DemoPackage/backoffice/dashboard.html</control>
    </tab>
  </section>
```
Then you also have to set access rights for the new section to the user. So edit your user and there you can set which sections it has access to. Then refresh the website and it should appear.

Regards David
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Dominic Tse 21 posts 110 karma points

May 28, 2017 @ 23:50

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Then you also have to set access rights for the new section to the user. So edit your user and there you can set which sections it has access to. Then refresh the website and it should appear.

I forgot to grant access rights for the new section to the user.

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