AppSuite:Writing a portal plugin

Summary: This articles covers how to write a plugin that shows on the portal page. A portal plugin always gives a short overview on a piece of information (the so-called 'tile'). It can link a longer view that is opened when the tile is clicked, this we call the side pop-up. The side pop-up is optional.

Before we start: How to experiment efficiently

The AppSuite has a very efficient way of enabling or disabling potential plugins. This makes it somewhat complicated to just try things out.

The simplest portal plugin: An advertisement

The simplest portal plugin comes without a side pop-up and shows static content on its tile. Two uses for this would be presenting an advertisement or showing a link list, for example to other parts of an company's intranet that are not integrated into the AppSuite (yet).

A typical portal plugin

A typical portal plugin uses the tile to display a short summary or teaser of its contents and uses a side-popup to show the whole content.

Special switches

• unique
• unmovable