Add Additional Tabs to Sisense Header Row

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Aviad Harell

March 20, 2015 17:08

Downloads

• Sisense version 7: addButtons-v7.zip
• Sisense version 6: addButtons.zip

Introduction

This article explains how to add additional links to the navigation bar, using a plugin in Sisense.

Purpose/Benefits

Sisense's header pane has 4 default tabs : Data, Analytics, Pulse & Admin.  If you wish to add additional tabs to that, you can use the included plugin to add them in.

Steps

The following steps will walk you through the process of adding a translation engine to Sisense.

Step 1 - Add the Plugin

Download the attachment and unzip the contents into:

V7.1 and below - C:\Program Files\Sisense\PrismWeb\plugins\ folder.

V7.2 & up - C:\Program Files\Sisense\app\plugins\ folder. 

If the plugins folder doesn't exist, just create it. 

 

Step 2 - Update the buttons.js file

Open up buttons.js, and update it to include any additional links you'd like to display.  If your link is to an external URL, make sure to include http:// before the rest of the URL.  If it's just to another page in Sisense, you can just add the path to the page.  See the below code block for examples of each.  

 

//	Add an array to the prism object for additional links
prism.extraButtons = [
	{
		link: "http://www.espn.com",
		label: "ESPN"
	},
	{
		link: "http://www.cnn.com",
		label: "CNN"
	},
	{
		link: "/app/settings#/users",
		label: "Users"
	}
];	
})

 

Notes

• UPDATED July 5, 2016 - Added support for Sisense version 6.4
• UPDATED Jan 31, 2018 - Added support for Sisense version 7
• Does not support version 6.7.1.15003

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  Michael Becker March 24, 2015 19:27

  Quite nice :) Any chance to make those links appear differently on iPad? Currently they are displayed directly under filter button and are hard to use.

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  Malinda Jepsen April 21, 2016 17:53

  Is there also a way to hide a dashboard?  For example, we only embed it and don't want users to access it directly.

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  Amy Scott October 18, 2016 11:42

  Hello,

  This is a nice feature and has been very useful however the links do not open in a new tab but rather in the same window. This would be much better if it opening in a new tab rather than the same window as some people may need to navigate elsewhere while staying on the dashboard.

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  Andrew Block January 24, 2017 20:24

  I agree with Amy is there a way to update this to open in a new tab instead of the same window?

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  Andrew Block April 21, 2017 16:05

  For anyone wanting to open up the custom link in a new tab simply adjust the //Create Anchor line as follows:

  add "target=_blank" after '<a

  // Create Anchor
  var buttonAnchor = $('<a target="_blank" data-ng-disabled="nav.disable"

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  Evan York December 29, 2017 20:32

  Any update to this plug-in to work with v7.0? 

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  Sanjoy Ghosh April 26, 2018 07:16

  I am using Sisense Version: 6.7.1.14504, addButtons for version 6 is not available, is there any update on this? 

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  Hemant Pathare August 14, 2019 16:28

  Is there a way to show different links to users based on user group

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  Ravid Paldi August 21, 2019 10:32

  @Hemant,

  Yes, it is possible. It requires some upgrades for the script's logic though. 

  There are several ways to achieve that, each one have pros and cons like anything else in the world (: 

   

  Feel free to reach out, we do many similar projects for clients and I'd be happy to give you some pointers on how you should implement it

  ravid@paldi.solutions

  Paldi Solutions

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  Hemant Pathare August 26, 2019 19:58

  I was able to achieve this functionality of showing different links based on user groups by checking for prism.user.groups in the addbuttons.js file. Thanks

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  Hamza Jap-Tjong October 22, 2019 08:16

  How can I make it open in a new tab when you are using v7+? Cannot find the anchor as being referenced in earlier post

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