How to Customize the UI

This chapter gives details on how to customize existing UI to fit your customer’s needs.

• How to customize the Back Office menu
  • Menu items creation
  • Organize the Navigation trees
• How to Add a New Tab to Akeneo entities forms (except product edit form and jobs edit form)
  • How to override a view element template
  • How to override the view element logic
  • How to add a visibility checker
  • How to add your own tab to a form
  • Example
• How to add a tab or a panel to the product edit form
  • Add a tab to the product edit form
  • Add a panel to the product edit form
• How to add an action button or meta data to the product edit form
  • How to add a button
  • How to add a meta section
• How to add a new field type
  • Create a field provider
  • Create the form field
• Create a custom product export builder filter
  • Declare a filter provider for our custom filter
  • Create the filter
• How to add custom information to a field
• How to create the UI to manage a Reference Data
  • Creating the Reference Data Management UI
    • The custom entity
    • The Grid
    • Creating the Form Type for creation and edition
    • Declare the CRUD actions
    • Create an entry point in the Back Office
• How to Register a New Mass Edit Action on Products
  • Prerequisite
  • Phase 1: Create the Operation
  • Phase 2: Create the FormType
  • Phase 3: Create the Processor
  • Phase 4: Create the background Job
  • Phase 5: Translating the Mass Edit Action Choice
  • Phase 6: Add user groups permissions to job profiles (ENTERPRISE EDITION)