Inject buttons in navbar via plugin

[rashidkpc]

Say I want a way to inject a button into the nav-bar to do something arbitrary. Maybe I want a plugin that adds a delete button to the dashboard that deletes the currently loaded saved search, or whatever other random function. We need a way to accomplish that injection via a plugin.

[spalger]

Would these buttons go next to the timepicker?

[w33ble]

The use case we chatted about would be for injected controls into a specific App. For example, being able to add new controls to the right of the query bar in an app (on the far right here, just as an example).

But being able to add stuff to the global nav is probably useful as well.

[w33ble]

It might also be useful to be able to inject content and controls into the sub menus of specific apps, like in the open or save dialogs, as in this example:

[w33ble]

Updated the scope of this issue to limit it to navbar specifically. If we decide we need to add other controls via plugins, we can direct them as they are needed.

[odmby]

Is anyone familiar with a plugin that does this?

[w33ble]

We use it internally a bunch, but I'm not aware of public uses of it (probably just because I'm out of touch, not because they don't exist).

I've written pretty extensively about using is on our discuss forums though, you can find the details here. Also, note this that the value you use for appName is important.

If you have specific questions about it, feel free to post them in the forums.