[horde] Adding a menu link Horde 5

[ANANT S ATHAVALE]

  ----- Message from Andy Dorman <adorman at ironicdesign.com> ---------
   Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:47:24 -0500
   From: Andy Dorman <adorman at ironicdesign.com>
Subject: Re: [horde] Adding a menu link  Horde 5
     To: horde at lists.horde.org

> On 10/21/2013 09:22 AM, Robert Moldenhauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ok, I have Horde running on a machine as http://xxx.xxx.edu and I want
>> to create a menu item under my account to connect to a webpage that
>> allows the user to change their password and set forwards.  The
>> application runs on https://yyy.xxx.edu/cgi-bin/setup.pl, different
>> server, outside of horde.  They will be asked to login again so there
>> is no need to pass user information.  The wiki has 95% of the
>> information I need, I just need to know the format of the entry into
>> registry.local.php.
>>
>> This doesn’t seem to work:
>>
>>    'vacforward' => array(
>>         'webroot' => 'https://yyy.xxx.edu/cgi-bin/setup.pl',
>>         'name' => _("Vacation & Forward"),
>>         'status' => 'active',
>>         'target' => '_blank',
>>         'menu_parent' => 'myaccount',
>>         'fileroot' => '/tmp',
>>         'icon' => ''
>>     ),
>>
>> Even though My Account appears because of Password, there is nothing
>> else in the menu.I tried name => “vacation” thinking it was the
>> ampersand, but that made no difference.  What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Robert
>
> Robert, I do not know if the example below will help, but we run an
> external spam & virus filtering system called AnteSpam and the following
> works nicely to add a new menu "AnteSpam" with menu items for the
> various parts of the spam filtering site.
>
> The menu links open a new browser tab.
>
> I am honestly not sure why we have to specify 'fileroot', especially if
> the AnteSpam service is not on the webmail server....But I found through
> hard experience that without 'fileroot' my menu does not show.
>
> ===== registry.d/antespam.php code snippet =====
>
> $user = strtolower ($GLOBALS['registry']->getAuth());
>
> $this->applications['antespam'] = array(
>    'name' => _("AnteSpam"),
>    'icon' => '/themes/graphics/asicon.png',
>    'status' => 'heading'
> );
> $this->applications['as_sideline'] = array(
>    'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../antespam',
>    'initial_page' => 'sideline',
>    'menu_parent' => 'antespam',
>    'name' => _("Sideline"),
>    'target' => 'AnteSpam',
>    'url' => 'https://antespam.com/address/' . $user . '/sideline?uid='
.
> $user . '&lab=' . urlencode($encrypted),
>    'webroot' => '/'
> );
> $this->applications['as_settings'] = array(
>    'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../antespam',
>    'initial_page' => 'update',
>    'menu_parent' => 'antespam',
>    'name' => _("Settings"),
>    'target' => 'AnteSpam',
>    'url' => 'https://antespam.com/address/' . $user . '/update?uid=' .
> $user . '&lab=' . urlencode($encrypted),
>    'webroot' => '/'
> );
> $this->applications['as_passlist'] = array(
>    'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../antespam',
>    'initial_page' => 'list/pass/',
>    'menu_parent' => 'antespam',
>    'name' => _("Passlist"),
>    'target' => 'AnteSpam',
>    'url' => 'https://antespam.com/address/' . $user .
'/list/pass/?uid='
> . $user . '&lab=' . urlencode($encrypted),
>    'webroot' => '/'
> );
> $this->applications['as_blocklist'] = array(
>    'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../antespam',
>    'initial_page' => 'list/block/',
>    'menu_parent' => 'antespam',
>    'name' => _("Blocklist"),
>    'target' => 'AnteSpam',
>    'url' => 'https://antespam.com/address/' . $user .
> '/list/block/?uid=' . $user . '&lab=' . urlencode($encrypted),
>    'webroot' => '/'
> );
>
> Good luck and hope this helps.
>
> --
> Andy Dorman
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----- End message from Andy Dorman <adorman at ironicdesign.com> -----

Following works in my setup.

'webcast' => array(
        'name' => _("Webcast"),
        'menu_parent' => 'intranet',
        'fileroot' => '/tmp',
        'webroot' => 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx/webcast',
        'target' => '_blank',
        'status' => 'link',
-- 
           Regards
            Anant
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