Extending Admin UI

Introduction

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

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

• Add a tab in the My dashboard page that lists all Articles
• Add a menu item that lists all Content items filtered by Content Type
• Add an Edit button that allows you to edit Content items from the content list
• Add a custom tag to the Online Editor for creating note boxes

To follow this tutorial you need to:

• be comfortable with Ibexa Platform's content model (Content, Location, Content Type, etc.)
• have basic to intermediate level in PHP
• have a basic knowledge of Symfony's concepts (such as Controllers and routing)

Steps

In this tutorial you will go through the following steps:

• 1. Creating a My dashboard tab
• 2. Creating a top menu item
• 3a. Filtering query results
• 3b. Adding an edit button
• 4. Creating a custom tag