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.

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.

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. 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...