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Ready for part 4? Yes, part 4. We continue our small walkthrough of building your own Admin Module in ContentBox 3. The last few blog posts we learned the minimum requirements for a new module, to be controlled from inside of ContentBox. Then we learned how to add a handler and a view, and how to access the module from the front end entry point, and through the ContentBox admin entrypoint. In the last blog post in this mini series, we looked at adding a Submenu for your module, to an existing top level Menu item inside of the ContentBox admin. This blog post is going to show you how to add your very own top level Menu item, give it an icon, set permissions, and then add Submenu items to access your module.

In previous posts, we learned how to create a module inside of ContentBox, and then we added a handler and view so we could view the module behind the security of the login, but having an admin module, without menu items, is fairly silly ( usually ). In this blog post, we'll learn how you can add Submenu items to existing menus, like the Modules Main Menu.

 

 

Our event page can be found here: www.ortussolutions.com/events/contentbox-3-roadshow

Webinars Recordings

• What's new with ContentBox 3 Gavin Pickin
• ContentBox Administration 101 Gavin Pickin
• Widgets, Modules, Events, Oh My! Luis Majano
• ContentBox + Mobile: Love is in the air Scott Steinbeck
• ContentBox Modules Deep Dive Gavin Pickin
• ContentBox Themes Deep Dive Luis Majano
• ...see all webinars

Blog Posts

• CBCMS2016 - Building your Own Admin Modules - Part 4 - Extending ContentBox 3
• CBCMS2016 - Building your Own Admin Modules - Part 3 - Extending ContentBox 3
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox ColdFusion CMS Roadshow 2016 - Links to Recordings, Posts and Closing Remarks
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox Themes Deep Dive - What we'll cover in the webinar
• CBCMS2016 - Building your Own Admin Modules - Part 2 - Extending ContentBox 3
• CBCMS2016 - Building your Own Admin Modules - Part 1 - Extending ContentBox 3
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox ColdFusion CMS Roadshow 2016 - BREAKING NEWS: A Bonus Week for the Roadshow!
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox Modules Deep Dive - What we'll cover in the webinar
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox Comment Moderation and Events
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox - Inheriting the Theme Layout in your Custom Module
• CBCMS2016 - Webinar - ContentBox + Mobile : Love is in the air
• CBCMS2016 - Discovering the Global HTML Theme Interception Points
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox Administration 101 - For Admins, Managers, Editors and Users
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox 3 - Modules are everywhere
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox CMS Smart Editor Integrations
• CBCMS2016 - Whats new in ContentBox 3 - Free Webinar July 1st
• CBCMS2016 - ContentBox ColdFusion CMS Roadshow 2016 - FREE Live Webinars

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Upcoming Events

An incredibly powerful feature of ContentBox 3 is the increasing availability of open source themes to jump start your custom development.   For those wishing to contribute back to the community, creating your own theme is as simple as cloning one of our boilerplate themes, creating a new GitHub repo for your customizations, and publishing your theme on Forgebox.  

We are happy to announce, ContentBox 3.0 FINAL is now available to the public. After a lot of hard work, we are finally ready to cut the release. With 100+ issues included in this release, this major release is nothing short of massive. With ColdBox 4 updates, Theme updates, Enterprise updates, Security Updates, JSON Support and Exports, Native Markdown Support, Autosave and much more, this major release has something for everyone. ContentBox 3.1.0 is already in development as well and can be installed via CommandBox using the contentbox@be Identifier.

Alongside the release we have many other announcements around the CMS. So get ready!

In Luis Majanos last webinar, "Widgets, Modules, Themes Oh My" ( View Recording ), there was so much to say about Widgets and Modules, there was no time left for Themes. Since there was a lot of interest, we have extended our whole roadshow one more week, so you'll get this blog post, and 2 more this week, and the final webinar will be Friday August 5th ( 9am PST 11am Central), a Deep Dive on Themes. ContentBox 3 has a lot of updates regarding themes, we'll give you a taste below on what you'll learn about in the webinar.

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In our last post, we started building an Admin Module. This process isn't actually that difficult or long, but we have broken it into separate blog posts to make it easier to read each piece. We have built our basic ModuleConfig.cfc, now we need to build an event handler and view, so the default action when you hit your new module have something visible. Our module was called mySecrets, so lets move on.

In previous posts, we looked at how to extend ContentBox 3 with ColdBox Modules, installing from Forgebox with CommandBox, or creating your own. In this post, we're going to look at how you can create your own Admin Modules, add Menu Items into the Admin Interface, use ContentBox admin Users and Permissions instead of building your own security by extending ContentBox.