Depending on the functionality that you are implementing, it may be necessary to expose some administrative options within the Administration UI of Telligent Community. The Administration UI is completely defined using plugins so its easy to add to.
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Types of administration UI extensions
The administration UI in Telligent Community is used by moderators and administrators to configure global options and enable specific functionality.
It is built using three types of plugins:
- Categories. Categories are the top-level navigation items ("Activity Stream" in the left-most column above) within the administration UI and are used for categorizing panels, which implement specific functionality.
- Panels. Panels live within a category and are listed with other panels in the same category ("Options" in the second column above) and have a specific UI when selected (third column above)
- Plugin Type Panels. Plugin type panels are a special grouping of plugins of a specific type within a category ("Activity Story Types" in the second column above). Their UI (third column above) is defined by the platform and available plugin type editors.
- Plugin Type Editors. Plugin type editors are used by the platform to extend platform-defined editing of plugins within Plugin Type Panels. Plugin type editors get to add to the UI (third column above) when editing a plugin that matches certain criteria defined by the plugin type editor.
- Explicit Panels. Explicit panels are panels that are only accessible via a direct link. For example, editing a member in the administration UI is available in a few different panels and categories, but is implemented once by linking to the explicit panel that edits a member. Explicit panels are useful when the same functionality will need to be accessed from multiple locations.
Administration categories
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Administration panels
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Plugin type panels
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Plugin type editors
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Explicit administration panels
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