The <pluginUI> element enables a plug-in author to describe a limited set of functionality to appear on a custom shortcuts page. The set of functionality exposed via the shortcuts is divided into the following categories:
Component type shortcuts:
List all components that extend this component type
Create a component that extends this component type
Component shortcuts:
Manage the specified component (link to component details page)
List virtual and physical hosts where this component is installed
Plan shortcuts:
Manage the specified plan (link to plan details page)
The <pluginUI> element has the following attributes:
menuItem – The text to display in the menu of the browser interface. The name should be 20 characters or less in length, although the actual character limit is defined by the attribute type.
tooltip – An optional tooltip to display for the menu item in the browser interface. The menuItem includes the icon, if you choose to provide an icon.
xmlns – A required string that has the following value:
http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS |
xmlns:xsi – A required string that has the following value:
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance |
xsi:schemaLocation – An optional string that has the following recommended value:
http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS pluginUI.xsd |
schemaVersion – A required attribute of type schemaVersion, which is the version of the plug-in XML schema being used. The only permitted values are 5.0 and 5.1.
The 5.1 version of the schema is backward compatible with the 5.0 version.
The <pluginUI> element contains the following elements:
<icon> – Provides the path to a graphic (icon) that you want displayed within the interface for this plug-in
<customPage> – Defines the contents of the custom page linked to by the menu item in the browser interface