Workspace Views

Append a view to any Workspace

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Workspace Views was previously called Content Apps.

Workspace Views are customizable companion tabs with the ability to take place in any workspace.

Workspace Views

In Content Section

With Workspace Views, editors can switch from editing 'Content' to accessing contextual information related to the item they are editing.

The default workspace view is 'Info' - displaying Links, History and Status of the current content item.

Example of a Workspace View

1. Follow the Vite Package Setup by creating a new project folder called "workspaceview" in App_Plugins.

2. Create a manifest file named umbraco-package.json at the root of the workspaceview folder. Here we define and configure our workspace view.

3. Add the following code to umbraco-package.json:

umbraco-package.json

{
  "$schema": "../../umbraco-package-schema.json",
  "name": "My workspace",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "extensions": [
    {
      "type": "workspaceView",
      "alias": "My.WorkspaceView",
      "name": "My Workspace View",
      "element": "/App_Plugins/workspaceview/dist/workspaceview.js",
      "meta": {
        "label": "My Workspace View",
        "pathname": "/my-workspace-view",
        "icon": "icon-add"
      },
      "conditions": [
        {
          "alias": "Umb.Condition.WorkspaceAlias",
          "match": "Umb.Workspace.Document"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

1. Add the following code to the existing my-element.ts from the srcfolder:

my-element.ts

import { LitElement, html, customElement, css } from "@umbraco-cms/backoffice/external/lit";
import { UmbElementMixin } from "@umbraco-cms/backoffice/element-api";

@customElement('my-workspaceview')
export default class MyWorspaceViewElement extends UmbElementMixin(LitElement) {

  render() {
    return html`     
     <uui-box headline="Workspace View">
        Welcome to my newly created workspace view.
      </uui-box>            
    `
  }

  static styles = css`
    uui-box {
      margin: 20px;
    }
  `
}

declare global {
  interface HTMLElementTagNameMap {
    'my-workspaceview': MyWorspaceViewElement
  }
}

In the workspaceview folder run npm run build and then run the project. Then in the content section of the Backoffice you will see our new Workspace View:

Workspace View Example

To see the Workspace View that we have created in the content section, first you will need to have some content created.