Umbraco 7 add new Item to Dashboard

Question

I am trying to add new "Section" Item to Umbraco 7. Without Success.

What I am trying to achieve is to Have additional Icon in left side menu after members icon. I saw , google analytics package adding icon there after installation.

I've tried to change dashboard.config , application.config , without success. Can anyone point to me to some tutorial on how to do it , googling the subj , didn't brought results.

Thanks.

Oxen

Answer 1

Markus has some good tips but his blog was written for 7.0 - some things have changed in 7.1. Work through Tim Geyssens's blog posts http://www.nibble.be/?p=434 http://www.nibble.be/?p=440

One very important tip - remember to add the section to the users login account! You might have done everything right and missed adding your custom section to your user account!

Stivers

your tip was the solution to the problem :) ! Thanks a lot – Oxen

How do you "add your custom section to your user account". I've added a package but can't see my dashboard anywhere.. – Recollection

Answer 2

Markus Johansson runs through the process on his blog, here.

Tola

As above - this was written for 7.0 so there are some changes since.. I'd start with the Tim Geyssens blog. – Stivers