Hi Laurent,

When I look at apps such as Qualitivity, it does seem to be possible to fully customise the ribbons on the Home tab, as this screen seems to suggest:

I.e. you have a new view and then you have full control over what you put on the Home tab, possibly also the other tabs. As I am not a developer I can't tell you how exactly this is done, but I would assume that when you create your view you maybe get an empty Home tab and rather than customise it you just put UI elements on it? Hopefully, others - i.e. proper coders :) - can comment on this, too, at some point.

Thanks and Happy Holidays everyone

Daniel

Hi Laurent,

When I look at apps such as Qualitivity, it does seem to be possible to fully customise the ribbons on the Home tab, as this screen seems to suggest:

I.e. you have a new view and then you have full control over what you put on the Home tab, possibly also the other tabs. As I am not a developer I can't tell you how exactly this is done, but I would assume that when you create your view you maybe get an empty Home tab and rather than customise it you just put UI elements on it? Hopefully, others - i.e. proper coders :) - can comment on this, too, at some point.

Thanks and Happy Holidays everyone

Daniel

Hi Laurent,

Sorry, I misread the question in my initial reply (I read it to mean a custom tab in an existing view)! I'm glad Daniel Brockman brought up the Qualitative plug-in, as you *can* make custom home tabs for views.

In order to make your "Home" tab for your custom view, you need to do the following:

   [RibbonGroup("MyRibbonGroup")]

   [RibbonGroupLayout(LocationByType = typeof(TranslationStudioDefaultRibbonTabs.HomeRibbonTabLocation))]

   class MyRibbonGroup : AbstractRibbonGroup

   {

   }

   [Action("MyAction", typeof(MyView))]

   [ActionLayout(typeof(MyRibbonGroup))]

   public class MyAction : AbstractViewControllerAction<MyView>

   {

      ...

   }

I am assuming "MyView" is your custom view. The key here is the following two lines:

   [Action("MyAction", typeof(MyView))]

   [ActionLayout(typeof(MyRibbonGroup))]

The first line "typeof(MyView)" associates your action with your view, so it only appears when you switch to your view.

The second line "(typeof(MyRibbonGroup)" associates the action with your custom ribbon group.