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My Plugin does not appear in OpenWorkdesk

mkappel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:32:23 GMT

There could be several reasons why your either new or copied plugin instance does not appear in OpenWorkdesk.Initial Situation: You created a new plugin with OpenWorkdesk Configurator. Either you created a new one or copied an existing one and created a new instance of the plugin. It doesn’t matter

Re: My Plugin does not appear in OpenWorkdesk

mkappel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:37:49 GMT

Fifth reason: Not defined where the plugin shall appear (only relevant for document plugins)
As part of the configuration you can specify for document plugins where they should appear. Often used features (like “Edit Properties”) shall be available in front of each document, others only in context menu, according to the following picture.

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Via the OpenWorkdesk Configurator you can specify where each document plugin shall appear. For more information use the help in the Configurator by pressing F1.

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Sixth reason: The respective object type is not enabled (only relevant for document plugins)
You can define for which object type a document plugin can be used. This means that e.g. an “Add to Favorites” plugin is only available for documents so it is not possible to bookmark whole eFiles or tasks. The following picture shows the object type specification for the “Edit Properties” plugin so this works for custom types like tasks, documents, folders and work items of workflows.
Use the OpenWorkdesk Configurator to define the appropriate object types.

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Re: My Plugin does not appear in OpenWorkdesk

mkappel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:39:53 GMT

Seventh reason: Object class is not specified (only relevant for record and document plugins)
You copied an already existing plugin and created a new instance with already defined configurations.
Then a reason could be that specific object classes are defined for which a plugin is executable. Example: An “Edit Properties” plugin can only be used for Bank Documents but not for Credit Documents because for this type another plugin with different configurations exists.
According to the following picture you can define with OpenWorkdesk Configurator the object classes for which this item will work.

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Re: My Plugin does not appear in OpenWorkdesk

chfi — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:09:32 GMT

Some additional information regarding the "third reason" that was mentioned above:
in case of having the OpenWorkdesk Enterprise Edition and using the DBRoleManager there is a pretty smart way to check the plugins that are assigned to your user ==> just open the so called configdump.jsp (e.g. http://localhost:8090/openworkdesk/configdump.jsp) to get more information like:
- all roles your user is member of
- all plugins/searchtemplates/… that are assigned to your user
==> this is the easiest way to check if any access rights are missing in your DBRoleManager