How-to Programmatically Add a Tab to a Ribbon?

lvanvugt

Using the Create Tab button I can customize/configure the ribbon of a page to have more tabs on the ribbon than the standard 4: Home,Actions,Navigate and Report. See also How to: Customize the Ribbon.
Now can I also programmatically add a tab to a ribbon? Haven't found that possibility yet? Any of you?

Marije_Brummel

Do you mean the PromotedActionCategoriesML?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 0(v=nav.70).aspx

lvanvugt

Mark Brummel wrote:

Do you mean the PromotedActionCategoriesML?

Nope, this is to create groups on the Actions tab.
Where the standard shows tabs Home, Actions, Navigate, Report, I would like to add as an example My Tab. See screen shot.

Marije_Brummel

AFAIK this is not possible.

lvanvugt

Mark Brummel wrote:

AFAIK this is not possible.

Clear, but still strange (and very unfortunate): As a user I am able to configure it, but as a programmer cannot code it.

Marije_Brummel

Yup.

This was also the case when 2009 RTC came out and the very reason they've introduced the PromotedActionCategoriesML property.

Microsoft is aware of this and hopefully they solve the issue.

BTW: NAV2013 is shipped with a customised role for sales. What you see in the Cronus database is personalised data, not the representation of the page designer.

lvanvugt

Mark Brummel wrote:

This was also the case when 2009 RTC came out and the very reason they've introduced the PromotedActionCategoriesML property.

True (even though there was no ribbon, but the we only had teh menus Actions, Related Information and Reports; and of course the promoted actions.
But MS applications like Office having programmatically customizable ribbons (if I read the "Internet" well).
OK, Dynamics is still different from "classic" MS ...