Enable Getting Started Tab on my solutions category

[Barkha]

Hello

We have implemented a list view. We have a custom solution category which currently points to a Custom View. Is it possible to point to "Getting Started" tab. This is what i have in my plugin.xml

<extension id="com.block.app">

      <extendedPoint>vise.global.views</extendedPoint>

      <object>

         <icon>#{icon.16.block}</icon>

         <name>Block System</name>

         <componentClass className="com.Blockui.views.headers.blockHeaderView"/>

      </object>

   </extension>

   <extension id="com.block.app.shortcut">

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

      <object>

         <icon>#{icon.256.block}</icon>

         <name>Vblock System</name>

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

         <targetViewUid>com.block.app</targetViewUid>

      </object>

   </extension>

   <extension id="com.block.navigator">

      <extendedPoint>vise.navigator.nodespecs</extendedPoint>

      <object>

         <icon>#{icon.16.block}</icon>

         <title>Block System</title>

         <parentUid>vsphere.core.navigator.solutionsCategory</parentUid>

         <isFocusable>true</isFocusable>

         <viewOpenedUponFocus

            className="com.vmware.ui.objectnavigator.views.CategoryNodeTreeView">

            <object>

               <root>

                  <numLevels>2</numLevels>

               </root>

            </object>

         </viewOpenedUponFocus>

         <navigationTargetUid>com.block.app</navigationTargetUid>

      </object>

   </extension>

So instead of BlockHeaderView, i would like to display Getting started tab.

   <extension id="com.vce.vision.navigator.home">

      <extendedPoint>vise.navigator.nodespecs</extendedPoint>

      <object>

         <icon>#{icon.16.vblock}</icon>

         <title>Vblock Home</title>

         <parentUid>com.vce.vision.navigator</parentUid>

         <navigationTargetUid>com.vce.vision.app</navigationTargetUid>

      </object>

   </extension>

[laurentsd]

All you need to do is use the extension id of your Getting Started view in <navigationTargetUid>

[Barkha]

Thanks a lot for your reply.

Do i need to be careful what to put in the extendedPoint for the gettingStartedViews extension. I added this to the plugin.xml and updated the navigatedTargetUid to com.vce.vision.app.view.gettingStarted but it isnt working. Is there something about namespace i need to consider. Please help!

<extension id="com.vce.vision.app.view.gettingStarted">

      <extendedPoint>com.vce.vision.app.gettingStartedViews</extendedPoint>

      <object>

         <componentClass>

            <className>com.vmware.vsphere.client.views.GettingStartedView</className>

            <object>

               <root>

                  <title>Getting Started</title>

                  <description>Getting started Description</description>

                  <image>#{icon.16.vblock}</image>

               </root>

            </object>

         </componentClass>

      </object>

   </extension>

[laurentsd]

1) <extendedPoint>com.vce.vision.app.gettingStartedViews</extendedPoint> => "com.vce.vision.app" doesn't look like the namespace used in your objectViewTemplate

2) <className>com.vmware.vsphere.client.views.GettingStartedView</className>  is not part of the SDK.  You need to create your own view component.

Here is the chassis sample code:

  <extension id="com.vmware.samples.chassisGettinStarted">
      <extendedPoint>com.vmware.samples.chassis.gettingStartedViews</extendedPoint>
       <object>
          <componentClass className="com.vmware.samples.chassisui.views.GettingStartedView"/>
      </object>
  </extension>

[Barkha]

Thank you for your reply. I am little confused. What would be the objectViewTemplate for my solutions category?  I wanted to add a getting started view when the user clicks on the left nav.

[Barkha]

Can anyone help on how to add getting started tab for my own node (which is not a object type)? Also i did take a look at vCO example but it doesnt make sense to me. Please Help!

[nishtek]

hi Barkha , laurentsd ,

     Wven i am facing the same problem. I want to create a vco like solution for which when i click the node in solution category or a shortcut, it should lead me to a page with getting started page , just like vco or my tag from nav panel on left side. i am confused here that what should be the extension structure to which i should point to. as this is not for any object type.

is it compulsary to create a objectview template instance to get this getting started, monitor and manage tabs.

[liuqi627]

Hey,

I'm wondering whether the problem is solved? I got stuck here~

[liuqi627]

Please help me with my code where I defined solutionsCategory navigator whose target is gettingStartedView of A, it doesn't work. Thank you so much!

Define Object A and gettingStartedView of A:

<templateInstance id="com.A.viewTemplateInstance">

      <templateId>vsphere.core.inventory.objectViewTemplate</templateId>

      <variable name="namespace" value="com.A"/>

      <variable name="objectType" value="entity:A"/>

   </templateInstance>

<extension id="com.A.gettingstarted">

      <extendedPoint>com.A.gettingStartedViews</extendedPoint>

      <object>

         <componentClass

            className="com.A.views.GettingStartedView"/>

      </object>

   </extension>

define solutionsCategory navigator whose target is gettingStartedView of A:

<extension id="com.objectNavigator">

       <extendedPoint>vise.navigator.nodespecs</extendedPoint>

       <object>

           <title>Company A Product</title>

           <parentUid>vsphere.core.navigator.solutionsCategory</parentUid>

           <icon>#{A_16.icon}</icon>

        <isFocusable>true</isFocusable>

        <viewOpenedUponFocus

            className="com.vmware.ui.objectnavigator.views.CategoryNodeTreeView">

            <object>

               <root>

                  <numLevels>2</numLevels>

               </root>

            </object>

         </viewOpenedUponFocus>

         <navigationTargetUid>com.A.gettingstarted</navigationTargetUid>

       </object>

   </extension>

[Peter_Ivanov]

Hello,

Can you clarify the problem a bit?

Do you want to reuse the existing getting started views? Or you just want to create your custom view and show it in a tab named "Getting Started"?

<componentClass  className="com.A.views.GettingStartedView"/>

Do you have such class: com.A.views.GettingStartedView ?

[liuqi627]

I want to create a custom view and show it in a tab named "Getting Started".

and

Yeah I have the class com.A.views.GettingStartedView.mxml.

[laurentsd]

The chassis sample shows how to add a Getting Started view when using vsphere.core.inventory.objectViewTemplate