Custom Pages in Zenoss

Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In a previous post I talked about how to create custom navigation links in Zenoss using a ZenPack. However we didn't get to creating the custom pages that these links would link to. This is what we will learn today.

Page Viewlets

Previously we created navigation item viewlets, this time we will be creating page viewlets. These type of viewlets allow us to create and insert new custom pages into Zenoss where we can display custom content. To create a new page, we add the following code to browser/configure.zcml:

<browser:page
  name="secondaryPage"
  for="*"
  permission="zenoss.View"
  template="templates/my_template.pt"
  />

It is important that the name attribute matches the URL of the navigation link we created previously. Another important attribute is the template attribute, this is a special file that will represent the base markup of the page using a combination of HTML, TAL, and METAL.

Also let's not forget to create a necessary python init file:

touch browser/__init__.py

d3 on Andrés Álvarez

Custom Pages in Zenoss

Page Viewlets