Extending the Umbraco Backoffice

The Umbraco backoffice itself can be customised and extended, this section is dedicated to getting started with these extension points.

The Umbraco backoffice itself can be customized and extended to fit the experience you want your editors to have when working with your website. This section is dedicated to getting started with these extension points.

Umbraco gives you the opportunity to create and customize packages, Property Editors, and content applications, and even create your own Dashboard. You can also extend things like the search functionality, Health Checks, and configurations.

In this section, you will find some routes to how to do so and some tutorials to create your own personal packages and content applications.

It is recommended that you have some knowledge and prior experience working with AngularJS, to follow the tutorials presented in this section.

Resources for extending

• Package manifest

• Angular docs / Backoffice UI API

• C# API Docs

What can be extended?

To get you started here are some examples of what you can extend in Umbraco:

Property EditorsGuide on how to work with and create Property Editors in UmbracoDashboardsA guide to creating custom dashboards in UmbracoBackoffice ToursA guide configuring backoffice tours in UmbracoSectionsAn explanation on sections and trees in UmbracoTreesA guide to creating a custom tree in UmbracoContent AppsA guide configuring content apps in UmbracoBackoffice SearchA guide to customization of Backoffice SearchHealth CheckHealth Checks are used to determine the state of your Umbraco project. Learn more about each of them in this section.Custom File Systems (IFileSystem)A guide to creating custom file systems in Umbraco

Tutorials

If you're in a creative mood then why not experiment with some of our tutorials:

Creating a Property Editor

Creating Custom Content Apps

Creating a Custom Dashboard

Creating a Package

Extending Umbraco