Menu on Management Portal

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Oliver Wilms · Apr 24, 2020

#Dashboards #Interoperability #Management Portal #Ensemble #InterSystems IRIS BI (DeepSee)

Has anybody tried to extend the Menu on Management Portal? I like to add a new page or a dashboard that will be created soon to the Management Portal and allow others to use it also. I understand there are risks that I could lose things during an upgrade. I am okay with that. Does InterSystems support such an effort?

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Eduard Lebedyuk · Apr 24, 2020

No, one user only.

You can iterate over users and add favorites for each.

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score 5 · Answer 1 · 2020-04-24T12:47:47-04:00

Easiest way to do that is to add a favorite:

set sc = ##class(%SYS.Portal.Users).%AddFavorite("Community","https://community.intersystems.com")

And your portal now looks like this:

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2020-04-24T13:47:02-04:00

Oliver Wilms · Apr 24, 2020

Is the favorite visible to more than one user?

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score 0 · Answer 3 · 2025-04-23T11:43:28-04:00

Nicholai Mitchko · Apr 23

Seems this trusty bit of code I've been using for a while no longer works on 2025.1

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score 0 · Answer 4 · 2025-04-23T13:37:18-04:00

Direct set still works (must be executed in %SYS):

set ^SYS("Portal","UsersD",$username,"Community")=$lb("","https://community.intersystems.com")

score 1 · Answer 5 · 2025-04-24T03:56:01-04:00

FWIW, I would not recommend users touch this global. It is internal and InterSystems may (and does) change how it's used without notice.

score 1 · Answer 6 · 2025-04-24T18:16:46-04:00

Hi @Benjamin De Boe 😊

In general I agree 100%, BUT, if you need to add a favorite now, then the "right thing to do" would be:

Open a WRC and explain the issue...may take some time depending on your luck...
WRC open an issue, wait for developers to look at it and fix it
Wait for patch/ad-hoc, how long? Probably 2~3 weeks for this not so critical issue
Install the ad-hoc and...finally you get your favorite in Management Portal!

Another option is to fix it yourself, the problem is due to the property Data in %SYS.Portal.Users class that is defined as %List but in fact is used by the portal code as a string.
The "misuse" of Data property went unnoticed until version 2025 that implements/introduce %IsValid() method for %List datatype and that's why the %AddFavorite() method does not work anymore. Note that if you call %AddFavorite() passing (correctly) a %List ($list), then the method works, the favorite does not, because the portal code that read the Data property treat it as a String, not a $List!
Fixing this is simple, just edit %SYS.Portal.Users class (after modifying IRISLIB db to R/W and back when you are done...) and change Data datatype from %List to %String.

OR....just set the damn global, enjoy your favorite and go back to business! 😁

Anyone willing to report this to WRC? ...not me 😉

score 1 · Answer 7 · 2025-04-25T02:44:25-04:00

It is part of my job description to say you shouldn't touch internal globals ;-)

see you in Orlando!

score 0 · Answer 8 · 2025-04-24T09:17:08-04:00

It seems that adding to favorites via the management portal itself has also stopped working. Interestingly, there is no error in this case.

Add to favorites in Management Portal

score 0 · Answer 9 · 2022-11-30T14:53:20-05:00

@Eduard Lebedyuk - I just found this while looking to do the same thing. You say that adding a favorite is the easiest way - are there other approaches as well short of editing code you shouldn't edit?

score 0 · Answer 10 · 2022-11-30T15:44:05-05:00

No, the entire menu is hardcoded as is.

You can use DeepSee/BI User Portal (advantage: public items are available for everyone, disadvantage: requires navigation to a specific ns), but real SMP menu modification requires editing code you shouldn't edit.

Why not favorites? You can autopopulate it on ZSTART.