The Control Menu Entry sample provides a customizable button that is added to Liferay's default Control Menu. When deploying this sample with no customizations, an additional button is added to the User portion of the Control Menu. For more information on how to customize Liferay's Control Menu, visit the Customizing the Control Menu tutorial.
You can easily modify this sample by customizing its
BladeProductNavigationControlMenuEntry Java class. For example, the default
Control Menu Entry sample provides a link icon (i.e., a
Lexicon icon)
pointing to the http://www.liferay.com/ URL. Simply
change the return values of the getIcon and getURL methods to modify the
icon and URL, respectively. Likewise, to update the Control Menu area that your
sample resides in, update the @Component annotation's
product.navigation.control.menu.category.key property accordingly. There are
three areas in Liferay's Control Menu to which you can set this property, by
default:
ProductNavigationControlMenuCategoryKeys.Sites(left)ProductNavigationControlMenuCategoryKeys.Tools(middle)ProductNavigationControlMenuCategoryKeys.User(right)
For more information on customizing the Control Menu Entry sample to fit your
needs, see the Javadoc listed in this sample's
BladeProductNavigationControlMenuEntry class.