Adding navigator tab

Basic Customization > User Interface Customization > Adding Actions and Hooking Them Up in the UI > Tab Models > Objective > Solution > Procedure - Adding Tabs in the Navigator at Different Levels > Adding navigator tab

The following sections detail how to add custom navigator tab.

Adding navigator tab - Create an action in custom-actions.xml

Create an action for your new tab in custom-actions.xml. You can create any type of action for a first level tab. In this example we will create an action that maps to the JSP. See Action Framework for Windchill Client Architecture for further details.

Create an entry in resource file

Create localization strings for your action in your own resource file. See the Action Framework for Windchill Client Architecture for more detailed information.

Create and define action model

Create an action model using newly defined actions as below in custom-actionModels.xml. Define rbinfo entries for this action model.

Add action model to navigator action model

Copy definition of navigator tab action model (model name= “navigator”) from navigation-actionModels.xml <model name=”navigator”> to custom-actionModels.xml. Add the new action model entry to it.