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Extend a perspective

Existing perspectives can be extended by adding new views, placeholders, short cuts and action sets. Most elements are straight forward; a name and an ID to identify the item to be added. Views have additional attributes to describe the relative positioning and visual characteristics of the new view being added.

Procedure

1. Create an implementation class for the perspective to be extended. The following sample adds a new view to the orders perspective:

   package extensions; 
   import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite; import org.eclipse.ui.part.ViewPart; 
   public class ExtendedView extends ViewPart {
   
           public void createPartControl(Composite arg0) {
                   setPartName("Extended View");         }
   
           public void setFocus() {
           }
   }
   

2. Use the base Eclipse org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtension extension point. A complete description of the extension point and the syntax are available in the developer documentation for org.eclipse.ui. In the example, the extension is defined in a new plug-in called extensions:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
   <plugin>   
     
   <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.views">      
   <view name="Extended View"
               
               id="extensions.ExtendedView">      
   </view>   
   </extension>   
   <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">      
   <perspectiveExtension
   targetID="com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ordersPerspective">         
   <view id="extensions.ExtendedView"
                  relative="com.ibm.commerce.telesales.storesView"
                  relationship="bottom"
                  ratio="0.8"/>      
   </perspectiveExtension>   
   </extension>
   </plugin>
   

Related concepts

Perspectives

Overview of customizing IBM Sales Center

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Add a perspective

Add a view

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