I am writing a plugin, and I can get my application to show up in the global view. In the VMware 5.1 documentation regarding global views it says, "global view can be a simple single-level data view that uses the entire vSphere Web Client main workspace, or a complex nested view with its own internal navigation structure and organization" ... or as I understand it, as simple or as complicated as you like.
The documentation and sample code for the SDK seem to take the "simple" route. That is, the global view is a simple, gray page. That is exactly how mine looks... I can add buttons or text or links, but it is a basic page.
What I want to do is make one that looks like the vCenter Orchestrator "Home". This has "Getting Started", "Summary", and "Manage" tabs all within the main "home" screen. That's what I want to do.
I cracked open the .war file making up the Orchestrator plugin. Within this file, it has the plugin.xml. Holy man, it is over 4000 lines long... that isn't what I want. I have tried to study it and use the pieces that I think I need, but it simply fails.
Here is my problem: the documentation doesn't talk about 90% of the things used in the Orchestrator's plugin.xml file. For example, the O's plugin.xml uses a "com.vmware.ui.views.TabbedView" class, which is what I think I want. But that isn't listed in the ...vsphere-client-sdk/docs/vsphere-client-asdoc/index.html documentation as far as I can see. Or the xml tag <actionDisplayInfos> looks like what I might want for the "Getting Started" screen... but searching communities.vmware.com, the vmware documentation, or even google itself give me no results (at least not related to VMware).
Am I missing some link/file for more detailed documentation? Based on the documentation that I have seen, there is NO WAY anyone could ever create the plugin.xml file that Orchestrator is using, so I feel like I must be missing something.
I have attached my "rendition" of the plugin.xml file, which is mostly just picked-pieces out of the Orchestrator plugin.xml file. (you can open the orchestrator .war file with anything that opens zip files... you can find the orchestrator .war file in your [VMware\vsphere-web-client\plugin-packages\vco-plugin] path, if you want a comparison).
For my "views" (as you would see in the plugin.xml), I have a GettingStartedView (which is for the "getting started" screen) and a MainView (which is for the "Summary" screen). Neither of these do much but have a one word text in each of them.
My current error is:
Failed to navigate to desired location.
Error details: Could not retrieve IExtensionActivator interface.
Thanks for any help.
