Creating a custom tab

[tothewine]

I want to create a tab with custom content inside it, integrated with the rest of espo (ACL etc) but without an associated entity. I think a custom view may be. Can you provide more information?

[tanya]

Hello,

https://www.espocrm.com/blog/how-to-create-custom-entity/

https://github.com/espocrm/documentation/blob/master/docs/development/metadata/scopes.md

Discover how Calendar is implemented

[tothewine]

Thanks. I'll look into the Project example. In addition to this, could you also point me to documentation on how to create an admin panel?

[tanya]

Hello,
You can create a file custom/Espo/Custom/Resources/metadata/app/adminPanel.json. Examples you can find at application/Espo/Resources/metadata/app/adminPanel.json.

[tothewine]

Thanks. Do I have to copy all the content from adminPanel.json or just add the new panel object like this ?

{
"customGroup":{
 "label": "Example Group",
      "itemList": [
         {
            "url":"#DataHolders",
            "label":"Data Holders",
            "description":"Can this be a string?"
         }]
}
}

[tanya]

If you want to create a new group, this is ok, of you want to add new rows to existing group, use "__APPEND__" before, like
"customization": {
"items": [
"__APPEND__",
{
"url":"#Url",
"label":"Label",
"description":"Descriptionr"
}
]
}