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Extending Admin UI

Introduction

This tutorial aims at providing a step-by-step guide on how to extend the eZ Platform Back Office provided by the eZ Platform Admin UI bundle. 

You will learn to extend a few points of the Back Office:

• Add a tab in the Dashboard listing all Articles
• Add a menu item that lists all Content items filtered by Content Type
• Add a new tab to the Universal Discovery Widget, listing all images
• Add a custom tag to the Online Editor for embedding YouTube videos

To follow this tutorial you need to:

• be comfortable with eZ Platform's content model (Content, Location, Content Type, etc.)
• have basic to intermediate level in PHP and JavaScript
• have a basic knowledge of Symfony's concepts (Bundle, Controller and routing)
• know how to work with React

Steps

In this tutorial you will go through the following steps:

• 1. Creating a bundle
• 2. Creating a Dashboard tab
• 3. Creating a top menu item
• 4. Filtering query results
• 5. Creating a UDW tab
• 6. Creating a custom tag