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Jason Evans
Jason Evans

Reputation: 29186

How to open a page in the dashboard without using dashboard.config

In an Umbraco site I'm working on, I have a requirement where I need to do the following:

In the "Members" area in Umbraco, there are three content tree nodes:

When the user clicks on any of the above nodes, the default behaviour is the following:

javascript.UmbClientMgr.appActions().openDashboard('member');

What I'd like to do is this - when the user clicks on the Member Groups node I want to open a new page in the dashboard (not the members dashboard page as configured in dashboard.config)

I've seen references to

UmbClientMgr.contentFrame('page.aspx');

in order to open pages in the dashboard, but I can't see how to change the default behaviour of the "Member Groups" node. I've tried editing the record for that node in umbracoAppTree by changing the action column to:

openDashboard('testing123')

and then hovering the mouse of the node to see if the above action appears in the JavaScript link, but that did not appear.

Can someone suggest how I can change the Member Groups link so that it opens a new page in dashboard please?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 477

Answers (1)

Jason Evans
Jason Evans

Reputation: 29186

In my solution I have a custom LoadMemberGroups class, which replaces Umbraco's default loadMemberGroups class (I do this by editing the umbracoAppTree table and changing the treeHandlerAssembly and treeHandlerType columns for the existing loadMemberGroups entry).

I didn't realise that in my code I can set the action for the Member Groups node like this:

protected override void CreateRootNode(ref XmlTreeNode rootNode)
{
    rootNode.Action = "MyAction";
}

So I can change the action to whatever I need. Cool.

Upvotes: 2

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