Trying to add menu selections to Workbench

Question

Trying to add additional menu items to represent another set of reports. Looking at <>/Workbench/workspace/conf/ws-mainMenu.xml I see how to define the menu items. But I don't know how that links into any thing else, or how the labels are applied.
Looking at the source of the web page I see this:
javascript:budoLookupTable['toggle-subnav-reporting'].toggle();" id="toggle-subnav-reporting" >View Reports</a>
but I don't know where that is coming from.

Answer 1

The id's in the ws-mainMenu.xml links off to the ws-extensions.xml file as well as certain "well-known" keys that come bundled with Workbench itself.
For a "Hello World" type example, you can add the following to ws-mainMenu.xml:
<menuitem id="stuff" onLaunchPage="true"/>
and the following to ws-extensions.xml:
<extension id="stuff"
defaultName="New Stuff"
defaultDescription="Hello World."
role="settings"
url="http://www.cnn.com"
sharedSecret="[COPY THIS FROM AN EXISTING ENTRY IN THE FILE]"
height="800"/>
After a restart of the Endeca Tools Service, you should now see your entry in the Workbench. There's a ton of stuff you can do here and additional context variables to make a more "real" Endeca specific extension but this should at least get you started.
Regards,
Patrick