Hey guys,

sorry that I didn’t write anything for a while, but I digged myself into a couple of books for my study.

The last days I worked to customize the webedit ribbon bar and added my own functionality. I really like working in the sheer ui and hopefully there come more tasks to tackle and I can write about them.

Here we go, everybody of you know the new webedit in Sitecore and the ribbon (button) above. I want to create a new strip (like “Page Editor” and “Home”) and in there I want a new chunk with a panel.

Here you see the Ribbon structure in Sitecore. It may be useful. Now, your new friend is the Sitecore Core database and the Item: /sitecore/content/Applications/Content Editor/Ribbons; there you find all the relevant items you need to create or change. In there are different folders:

• Chunks - defines all different chunks. If you want to create a new one, this is your first point.
• Contextual Ribbons - You remember the context ribbons e.g. when you create a new template, this is done here.
• Ribbons - under Default you can define the default strips you have in your normal content editor and if they are hidden by default (right click on the toolbar you see the developer and my toolbar which are hidden by default for example).
• Strips - In the image above you see that this whole thing is strip. Define it’s details and chunks here, but I get back on that later.

Unfortunately I have not that much time at the moment, so I will split up this tutorial into several parts. Check back soon to see how to connect these items and see it in action. I will also describe how to create a panel such as insert, where you can change the behaviour programmatically.

cheers chris

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