How to add a sidebox in a application in Egroupware 23.1

[Muy_Belgium]

Hello,

I you like a side box with a menu item in my application. I take this example at step 1 : https://github.com/EGroupware/example

I add this line into example/setup/setup.inc.php :

$setup_info['example']['hooks']['sidebox_menu']= EGroupware\Example\Hooks::class.'::sidebox_menu' ;

Then I want to create a example/src/Hooks.php file which contains

<?php
namespace EGroupware\Example;

use EGroupware\Api;

class Hooks
{
    public static function sidebox_menu()
    {
        error_log('sidebox_menu called in file '.__FILE__);
        $menu = [];
        $menu['Index'] = Api\Framework::link(
            '/index.php',
            ['menuaction' =>
            'exemple.EGroupware\Example.index',
            ]
        );
        Api\display_sidebox('example', 'Example', $menu);
    }
}

Then no side box is never printer and the error message never appears in the logs. How to create a sidebox menu ?

[RalfBecker]

Hooks need to be registered: Admin > Clear cache and register hooks

Ralf

[Muy_Belgium]

I have reset cache in /egroupware/setup => Clear cache and register hooks ; then in the admin application. But the sidebox menu have not appeared yet. (sorry)

I have also restarted the containers in the server, this takes 15 seconds. I supposed it reset everything.

[Muy_Belgium]

I have a clue : The name of the application is not printed, and the reload button does not appears in the sidebox.

But, if the link to the ajax version of the page is loaded into target _blank. In this case, the reload button appears and reload the index of the application AND the application is perfectly working.

Here the code for the buttons in my home-made application

public function index(array $content=null)
{
 $a = Framework::link(
    '/index.php',
    ['menuaction' =>
    'bacula.EGroupware\Bacula\Bacula.failingrotation',
    'ajax'       => 'true'
    ]
 );
 print ( "<a href='$a' target='_blank'>Failing Rotation (Ajax)</a><br/>");

 $a = Framework::link(
    '/index.php',
    ['menuaction' =>
        'bacula.EGroupware\Bacula\Bacula.countinretention',
     'ajax'       => 'true'
    ]
    );
 print("<a href='$a' target='_blank'>Count in retention</a><br/>");
}

So, if I manage to put those links into a sidebox menu, my application will works as expected.

[RalfBecker]

Api\display_sidebox(‘example’, ‘Example’, $menu);

That is wrong!

Check: https://github.com/EGroupware/example/blob/master/src/Hooks.php#L81

Ralf

[Muy_Belgium]

I did not manage to use a Hook class but, I can see that the menu appearing in Egroupware24.1 when

# vi example/setup/setup.inc.php
STATIC LABEL$setup_info['bacula']['hooks'][] = 'sidebox_menu';

and

# vi bacula/inc/hook_sidebox_menu.inc.php 
display_sidebox($appname,$menu_title,Array(Array('MyCaption' => > $GLOBALS['egw']->link('/index.php','menuaction=...');

and you are rendering a Etemplate (meaning not the Step1 example which simply echo the HTML).

For the good of my productivity, I let the sidebox_menu in “legacy” mode.

[Muy_Belgium]

Thank you for your reply.