Add additional items in Designer > TagBrowser > PopupMenu

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Hi,
I want to add additional menu entries in the Designer > TagBrowser contextual menu (the one appearing on right mouse of a tag) in Ignition 8.1.

In Ignition 7 I was able to do this using designerContext.getTagBrowser() and accessing popup field and tree field. This doesn’t work anymore in Ignition 8.1.

It seems that I’ve found a way to obtain the tree from designerContext.getTagBrowser().getTabbedPanel().getTagPanel() but I don’t find the popup: JPopupMenu anymore.

Reading https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/SE/Creating+Menus+and+Toolbars I only see how to add menu items in the main menu and in the toolbar. I do not want to register my action in the main menu or toolbar.

Is there any way to register custom actions to tag contextual menu?

Thank you

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Adding menu items like that was never supported. Are you trying to add things for a tag provider you’re managing, or to add/updates item on the tag browser’s menu for all tag providers?

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I try to select one or multiple tags and push their paths to another system.

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I think getToolbar() is what you want on the TagBrowserFrame - but, again, this isn’t supported, and is very subject to breaking between Ignition versions.

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I think this is the toolbar. I want to access the contextual menu.

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Well, the SDK API isn't guaranteed to not change between versions. "Supported" is a rather nebulous thing on the SDK side of the house. ):

Marius, I wouldn't let the lack of "support" interfere with solving the problem at hand.

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It looks like TagBrowserFrame has two useful methods:

    fun addTagPopupMenuAction(action: BaseAction?, index: Int)
    fun addTagPopupMenuComponent(c: Component?, index: Int)
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Great. Thx. I'll give it a try.