Control dashboard-order as implementing website

Questions
1

I know that a package developer can set a “weight” for a dashboard, but I’m wondering if there is a good way for me as user to control the order from many different extensions?

E.g. if I don’t agree with the weights that different extension developer gave their dashboard extension?

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Something along the lines of a package to update weights… following this that updated conditions. (just simple js over ts for the example)

{
  "name": "Dashboard Customization",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "extensions": [
    {
      "type": "backofficeEntryPoint",
      "alias": "DashboardCustomization.EntryPoint",
      "name": "Dashboard Customization Entry Point",
      "js": "/App_Plugins/MoveRedirectManagementDashboard/dashboards-setup.js"
    }
  ]
}

wwwroot\App_Plugins\MoveRedirectManagementDashboard\dashboards-setup.js

import { UMB_SETTINGS_SECTION_ALIAS } from '@umbraco-cms/backoffice/settings';
import { UMB_SECTION_ALIAS_CONDITION_ALIAS } from '@umbraco-cms/backoffice/section';

const REDIRECT_MANAGEMENT_DASHBOARD_ALIAS = 'Umb.Dashboard.RedirectManagement';

export const onInit = (_host, extensionRegistry) => {
    
    const coreManifest = extensionRegistry.getByAlias(REDIRECT_MANAGEMENT_DASHBOARD_ALIAS);

    if (!coreManifest) return;

    coreManifest.conditions = [{
        alias: UMB_SECTION_ALIAS_CONDITION_ALIAS,
        match: UMB_SETTINGS_SECTION_ALIAS,
    }];
};

from a larger thread..

3

Thank @mistyn8 ! Seems like this could be used to adjust the weight and not the conditions I guess.

I’m comfortable with this but it feels like it would be nice to have a easier way for devs to move around dashboards if they need to.

I’ll post any findings here after playing with this.

4

Agree completely—the road to progress with Umbraco of late means everything isn’t quite as plug-and-play or straightforward as it used to be. At least AI is here to help pick up the slack to restore parity!
Appreciate you sharing your findings.

5

There is no feature to manipulate manifests.

But you can do a bit of hacking.

The simple one would be via the entry point(similar as in Mike comment, assuming they are registered at the time)

Then grab the manifest you want to alter, unregister it, and register a new altered version, same Alias, so same extension, Just one value is changed.

const coreManifest = extensionRegistry.getByAlias(REDIRECT_MANAGEMENT_DASHBOARD_ALIAS);

    if (!coreManifest) return;

const newManifest = {
    ...coreManifest,
weight: 1234
}

extensionRegistry.unregister(coreManifest.alias);
// Maybe you need to wait one JS Cycle here; not sure, but try without for a start.
extensionRegistry.register(newManifest);

The other option, maybe a prettier version, would be to make yours a new one that overwrites the core one:

const coreManifest = extensionRegistry.getByAlias(REDIRECT_MANAGEMENT_DASHBOARD_ALIAS);

    if (!coreManifest) return;

const newManifest = {
    ...coreManifest,
alias: 'bring.your.own.unique.alias'
overwrites: coreManifest.alias,
weight: 1234
}

extensionRegistry.register(newManifest);

I hope that helps — the reason why it is not a supported feature is that we haven’t seen the need for such so far. And what are the potential troubles of having other manipulating manifests.
But we support appending conditions as mike mentioned.

6

I’ve put this in to the power toys package (because we already had, enable/disable dashboards, seemed like the next step :slight_smile: )

Drag and drop re-ordering of installed dashboards :

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7

Waooow! @KevinJump! I have to check this out! #h5yr

8

@markusjoha may I ask if you’re looking to control this on a project level?

Cause I think it might not be ideal if Users could manipulate the weights — but if it’s on a project level, then I surely can see the benefit of it.

I could dream of it being a User Group feature, so you can control which Dashboards are shown for a User Group and, as part of it, sort them. (By default, all dashboards would be checked as permitted)

Or maybe it just starts a general ‘overwrite manifest weights’ Extension-Registry feature…

9

As a user there is probably a use case for which dashboards I use the most so that user would love to be able to manipulate the weights (without having to ask an admin)?

10

And you are at the mercy of extension developers to set a proper weight. But this is exactly why this discussion was created: Improve or rework/redesign section header and selection · umbraco/Umbraco-CMS · Discussion #23866 · GitHub

If we move more to a launcher idea, it could just be grouped and/or alphabetical and you’d pin what you want.

11

To be honest, I did not really think ahead about this, short term I was looking for a way to do this on the project level (from code would be fine).

So to solve my initial problem a accesible “override weight”-thing would be sufficient.

But your really hitting on something, we had another project where I needed to hide a dashboard for a certain User Group (or only show for group X or Y) - so having the ability to configure that would be a dream :slight_smile: