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Customize the view section in the library manger

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YZ202408211627 8 months ago

Is there an API to customize this section from the library manager for example: adding a new column, adding an icon beside the view name or changing the color of the view name 

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  • henker
    henker 8 months ago

    You can assign colors and icons to libraries (see support.cadence.com/.../ArticleAttachmentPortal, but IMHO not freely to cells/views.

    Although there is the GDM (generic design management) interface, that can display icons in the libmgr depending on the management state of objects (eg, checked out, modified, update needed, etc; I'm not sure about colors), it is IMHO not public and also limited to the defined design management operations. As far as I'm aware, you would need to implement the gdm backend functions in e.g. C/C++ and compile them to a libgdmXXXX_sh.so, which is then used by the libmgr and the gdm* command line tools.
    You might talk with customer support, if something like that is your aim.

    We have implemented something similar on the context menu that is shown on right click on an object. Before the menu is displayed a mapCallback trigger function is called where the menu can be modified, so we show e.g. the object status in the menu. You may find more on that in the Cadence Application Infrastructure SKILL Reference and some examples here: support.cadence.com/Coveo_CommunitySearch
    This may however not really help your intention, as you do not get an fancy overview by just looking on the libmgr, but have to do a rightclick on the individual objects.
    Another drawback is that the mapCallback has to be fast, so you cannot do extensive operations there, but have to use some additional caching mechanism.

    Regards,

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett 8 months ago
    YZ202408211627 said:
    Is there an API to customize this section from the library manager for example: adding a new column, adding an icon beside the view name or changing the color of the view name 

    No, there is not an API to do any of these things.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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