Add custom Menu items to topbar in Universal GUI

Perhaps to make an easy first step: add the tasks to an extended property

Or even extend the default functionality of the IAM and model to have Help and Notifications.. These can be permanent features, especially with notifications. to read them back etc..  

You can then add release notes or application specific notifications through the same system. 

I think a lot is already there, but not optimally used yet! 

@Anne Buit is this on the planning to have the IAM notifications for example in a proper user notification system where you can also read back and see if someone read it or not?  

Hi all!

I have a few questions about the quick access topbar menu, as it still is a bit ambiguous what the expectations are about this quick access topbar menu.

• How much flexibility do you need from this component?
  • Do you want to set all items yourself or do you expect Thinkwise to set (some) default industry standard functions?
  • Do you need the quick access topbar menu to be a different kind of menu (so menu items can open as an Open Document, start a task or process flow) or do you expect different behavior?
• How many items do you need to show to your users in the quick access topbar menu?
  • Are these buttons going to be single actions, or are you also expecting a dropdown menu?
  • Including the profile menu, we see an average of 4 quick access topbar menu items. Would that suffice?
    • If not, how many more do you think you need? 
    • On mobile, 4 buttons (next to the global search) will fill the topbar very quickly. In the case of surpassing that amount of buttons, what do you expect them to do if there is no room to show them all?

​@Bart Metselaar a good start would be to have a notifications option. where 'errors' go to, where from the IAM you can send notifications and also from your application. In the notification you can then include links to the areas of your applications. 

​@Bart Metselaar , see the reply inline

• How much flexibility do you need from this component?
  • Do you want to set all items yourself or do you expect Thinkwise to set (some) default industry standard functions?
    Both, some industry standaard functions (eg. notifications) as well as setting some items ourselves (eg. open documentation or a specific task to quick start an action like the ‘Create a new  topic’ button in the Commutity is a good example)

    

  • Do you need the quick access topbar menu to be a different kind of menu (so menu items can open as an Open Document, start a task or process flow) or do you expect different behavior? 
    The described behaviour will cover the needs

• How many items do you need to show to your users in the quick access topbar menu?
  • Are these buttons going to be single actions, or are you also expecting a dropdown menu?
    Both (for instance for the notification area and to group some similar tasks, but that is not neccessary in a first version)
  • Including the profile menu, we see an average of 4 quick access topbar menu items.
    There should be a restricted set of items available, so the average of 4 will be sufficient