I've just got a quick question, I am thinking about writing some simple utils for our content-editors.
In what different ways it is possible to extend the functionality of the backend for umbraco?
Is it possible to add items to the right-click menu, or add custom tabs, when the user is editing a page? I already know about the action-handlers when saving page etc.
All without modifying Umbraco-core...
Note:I received this tip from Shandem regarding the right-click menu, but his patch modifies core.
Quote:I made a patch that can solve this issue, but to answer your question... you cannot currently do this without modifying the code. The patch I've put up solves a few other issues, however I'm working on new code that has a different model so the code in the patch i wrote will not exist in any future releases. With the new codebase (which will hopefully make it into the umbraco core), will allow you to extend any ITree with your own class which means that you will be able to do this without modifying the core.
You can get the patch here with full details of changes:
http://www.codeplex.com/umbraco/SourceControl/PatchList.aspx(with ID 1164)