Navigate to Home page.

[rajsoni]

I want to navigate to  home page while click on any button in my plug-in page.

I used below code for few navigations already .

                       Private static const SETTINGVIEW_ID:String= “######”;

        var eventRefresh:NavigationRequest = new NavigationRequest();

                  eventRefresh.targetViewUid = SETTINGVIEW_ID;

                  dispatchEvent(eventRefresh);

can u suggest me the  “SETTINGVIEW_ID”  which should be used to navigate to Home Location which is nothing but the screen below:

ScreenShot :

      

[laurentsd · Accepted solution]

The home page extension id is vsphere.core.controlcenter.domainView.

FYI, you see it in the URL after you login or when you navigate there manually:

  => https://localhost:9443/vsphere-client/#extensionId=vsphere.core.controlcenter.domainView

[walkaboot]

What about the inverse of this.  I'm attempting to navigate from a home shortcut to an Object workspace sub-tab.

According to documentation and assuming my extension id is registered as com.myApp.mySolution.subTab:

<extension id="com.myApp.mySoultion.subTab">
      <extendedPoint>vsphere.core.vm.manageViews</extendedPoint>
      <object>
      <name>myApp</name>
         <componentClass className="com.myApp.mySolution.views.ManageView" />
      </object>
   </extension>

I then make a home shortcut linking it to the above extension:

<extension id="com.myApp.mySolution.manage.Shortcut">
      <extendedPoint>vise.home.shortcuts</extendedPoint>
      <object>
         <name>MyApp</name>
         <categoryUid>vsphere.core.controlcenter.inventoriesCategory</categoryUid>
         <icon>#{shortcut.icon}</icon>
         <targetViewUid>com.myApp.mySoultion.subTab</targetViewUid>
      </object>
   </extension>

The Shortcut appears but when I click on it I'm getting a blank(gray) screen in the Main Workspace.  It seems to be navigating to an empty view but I can reliably reach the view by going to it through the Object Navigator.  I've also attempted a workaround by creating a global view with a view/mediator that makes a NavigationRequest to the extension id, but that gives the same result.  Just to test I changed the <targetViewUid> to vsphere.core.host.gettingStarted and again got the same results.

[rajeshami]

Hi Walkaboot,

We are facing the same issue. We wanted to navigate from a shortcut to object workspace, but couldn't find any clue. We tried Chassis example, but its quite different/difficult. Can you please let us know if you succeed in doing this? please let us know. Thanks in advance.

[laurentsd]

Having a shortcut extension pointing to a specific object's view is not really possible because the ShortcutSpec data would need to include that object's uid as shown below  (see also the com.vmware.vsphere.client.views.ShortcutSpec API):

<extension id="com.myApp.mySolution.manage.Shortcut">

      <extendedPoint>vise.home.shortcuts</extendedPoint>

      <object>

         <name>MyApp</name>

         <categoryUid>vsphere.core.controlcenter.inventoriesCategory</categoryUid>

         <icon>#{shortcut.icon}</icon>

         <targetViewUid>com.myApp.mySoultion.subTab</targetViewUid>

         <uid>YOUR_OBJECT_ID_HERE</uid>

      </object>

</extension>

Home shortcut extensions are reserved for global views.  You can provide a navigation link to a specific object view through program, using the com.vmware.ui.events.NavigationRequest API (in this case you can find out the object id at runtime).