24.4 A Simple WDK Customization Example
Having seen a very simple configuration example in WDK, we will now take a step further and develop our own custom component in WDK. We will create a new menu option in Web Publisher, clicking on which will take us to a custom screen for creating News Article content.
Figure 24.6 shows a newly added custom menu option Create New News Article under the menu option: File | New.
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Figure 24.6: New menu option for creating News Article content
When you click on the menu option Create New News Article, a custom screen is shown for creating News Article content as shown in figure 24.7.
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Figure 24.7: Custom screen for creating News Article content
Let us now go step by step through this example to understand how to create our own custom components using the WDK framework:
1. Copy
menubar_component.xml
from\wp\wp\config\app
to the following location on your Web Publisher server:\wp\custom\config\app
.(Needless to say you need to create the appropriate folder...