We are trying to experiment with the new Plugin API and have come across several questions.
We are trying to have our plugin act as its own task and have its own page with a button in the taskbar. I was reading through the mailing list to figure out how to do this, and could not find anything substantial.
I found an email stating:
this->add_button(..., 'taskbar'); or client side with rcmail.add_element('<a href...', 'taskbar');
I added this-> add_button('asd', 'taskbar'); to the init function of the new plugin but it did not add anything to the taskbar. Secondly how would we create the page for this new task?
Also, I was curious if anyone has ported some of the existing patches on the roundcube forums into a plugin format (such as sieve).
Thanks.
Naveen Gavini Student Systems Programmer OSS/CSS - OIT Rutgers ngavini@jla.rutgers.edu
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Naveen Gavini wrote:
We are trying to experiment with the new Plugin API and have come across several questions.
We are trying to have our plugin act as its own task and have its own page with a button in the taskbar. I was reading through the mailing list to figure out how to do this, and could not find anything substantial.
I found an email stating:
this->add_button(..., 'taskbar'); or client side with rcmail.add_element('<a href...', 'taskbar');
I added this-> add_button('asd', 'taskbar'); to the init function of the new plugin but it did not add anything to the taskbar.
This should work with the default skin. If you're using your own skin, you have to apply some changes to your templates. Search the default skin templates for <roundcube:container ... />.
For example in includes/taskbar.html you have to add <roundcube:container name="taskbar" id="taskbar" /> within the <div id="taskbar"> block.
This tag gives a hint to the application where the taskbar is and it acts as a placeholder for server-side button inclusion.
Secondly how would we create the page for this new task?
Currently it's not possible to define a new "task" per se. You can only define new "actions" within one if the existing tasks (mail|addressbook|settings). Read http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Doc_Plugins#Customactions for more details.
~Thomas _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
Thomas Bruederli wrote:
Naveen Gavini wrote:
We are trying to experiment with the new Plugin API and have come across several questions.
We are trying to have our plugin act as its own task and have its own page with a button in the taskbar. I was reading through the mailing list to figure out how to do this, and could not find anything substantial.
I found an email stating:
this->add_button(..., 'taskbar'); or client side with rcmail.add_element('<a href...', 'taskbar');
I added this-> add_button('asd', 'taskbar'); to the init function of the new plugin but it did not add anything to the taskbar.
This should work with the default skin. If you're using your own skin, you have to apply some changes to your templates. Search the default skin templates for <roundcube:container ... />.
For example in includes/taskbar.html you have to add <roundcube:container name="taskbar" id="taskbar" /> within the <div id="taskbar"> block.
This tag gives a hint to the application where the taskbar is and it acts as a placeholder for server-side button inclusion.
In my initial email we were attempting this with the default theme, but aren't seeing it work.
Secondly how would we create the page for this new task?
Currently it's not possible to define a new "task" per se. You can only define new "actions" within one if the existing tasks (mail|addressbook|settings). Read http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Doc_Plugins#Customactions for more details.
The features we are trying to implement are not really a subset any of these current tasks and we would like to have a separate page for them. Is creating tasks a planned feature to eventually be added to the plugin API or is there another way we could achieve this?
Is it possible to achieve this via creating a separate file within the plugin directory and pointing to it (similar to squirrelmail)?
Thanks!
~Thomas
Naveen Gavini wrote:
Secondly how would we create the page for this new task?
Currently it's not possible to define a new "task" per se. You can only define new "actions" within one if the existing tasks (mail|addressbook|settings). Read http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Doc_Plugins#Customactions for more details.
The features we are trying to implement are not really a subset any of these current tasks and we would like to have a separate page for them. Is creating tasks a planned feature to eventually be added to the plugin API or is there another way we could achieve this?
Yes, I think so. For the moment you have to define actions within an existing task or be patient until we extended the API.
Is it possible to achieve this via creating a separate file within the plugin directory and pointing to it (similar to squirrelmail)?
Theoretically yes but I wouldn't suggest to do so. If you want to access any of the RoundCube components, you have to initialize them as it is done in index.php
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