Customer Control Panel

This document considers the way an application UI can plug into CCP. UX1 provides much more integration capabilities and thus is considered in a separate document.

Layout

CCP and MyCP layout is unified in terms that the customer administrators and service users will work within the same layout differentiated by the permissions to manage the account and subscription resources.

In CCP, an embedded APS UI looks as follows:

Menu

Various APS applications including system applications plug their navigation trees in the CCP menu on top of the screen. System services are available for any customer through the following menu items:

• Home - home dashboard used for quick access to the most often used system and custom services.
• Hosted Domains - domain management tool for managing domain names and domain zones.
• Users - user management tool for managing customer’s service users.
• Account - account management tool for customer-wide operations.

Usually, once a customer subscribes to a custom service, the respective APS application will plug its UI navigation tree into the CCP menu.

CCP can present up to 3 embedded navigation levels.

• Navigation trees
• Two levels of navigation items in the selected navigation tree

CCP highlights the selected navigation item and its parent.

Embedding to CCP

One of placeholders predefined in the APS Specification allows embedding a navigation tree into the CCP as a tab in the top level menu bar. In the following example, metadata declaration in APP-META.xml makes the tree with the “VPS Management” label embedded into the CCP, as required by element <plugs-to id=”http://www.aps-standard.org/ui/service”/>.

<navigation id="ccp" label="VPS Management">
    <var name="context" type-id="http://event-mgmt.demo.apsdemo.org/vpsclouds/contexts/1.0"/>
    <plugs-to id="http://www.aps-standard.org/ui/service"/>
    <item id="servers" label="Servers">
        <view id="servers" label="Servers">
        ...
        <view id="server.edit" label="Edit">
            <var name="vps" type-id="http://event-mgmt.demo.apsdemo.org/vpsclouds/vpses/1.0"/>
                <controls>
                    <cancel/>
                    <submit/>
                </controls>
            </view>
        </view>
    </item>
    <item id="counters" label="Resource Usage">
        <view id="counters" label="Resource Usage"/>
    </item>
    <item id="events" label="Event Notifications">
        <view id="events" label="Event Notification Log">
            <var name="events" type-id="http://event-mgmt.demo.apsdemo.org/vpsclouds/events/1.0"/>
        </view>
    </item>
</navigation>

In CCP, it looks as presented below.

APS UI in this case allows the customer to create and manage purchased resources of the application, such as VPSes in our example. CCP supports breadcrumbs when navigating in the APS UI tree.

Auto-generated Widgets

Components

In CCP, every APS application that is provisioned in a subscription and has entry-points defined in APP-META.xml is represented by its auto-generated widget on the Home page, when this subscription is selected.

The widget contains the following components defined in the <presentation> section of the package:

• Summary - used as the widget title
• Description - text output
• Icon
• Available entry points

Entry-points of the application services are placed on the bottom of the widget. They are presented in the form of clickable direct links to various views of the custom UI navigation panel.

Note

If the package does not have any entry points defined, the widget will not be shown on the Home page.

Configuration

All three application presentation elements are mandatory for certified packages. In the APP-META.xml file, they look as in the following example:

<presentation>
   <summary>Simplest counter management multi-tenant application</summary>
   <description>Demo application to demonstrate how to develop APS application step by step.
   </description>
   <icon path="images/icon.png"/>
   ...
</presentation>

A service entry-point is configured in the service presentation section and consists of the following elements and attributes:

• The <entry> element contains the dst and class attributes.
  • The dst attribute refers to the custom view that must open when a user clicks the link. Its value consists of the application ID and the view ID separated by the “#” symbol.
  • The class attribute must be “aps2-view”.
• The <label> element defines the text of the link displayed by the widget.

For example, the following entry-point will be displayed as VPS Management link to the servers view of the application whose ID is http://counter-mgmt.demo.apsdemo.org/vpsclouds.

<service id="vpses">
   ...
   <presentation>
       ...
       <entry-points>
         <entry   dst="http://counter-mgmt.demo.apsdemo.org/vpsclouds#servers"
                  class="aps2-view">
            <label>VPS Management</label>
         </entry>
       </entry-points>
   </presentation>
</service>

Breadcrumbs

When navigating in custom UI, breadcrumbs on top of the screen show the navigation path to the selected view. Breadcrumbs include the following navigation elements:

• Navigation item declared in custom UI metadata
• All views that are parents of the current view

Let us consider the following navigation tree declared for CCP.

Navigation path to the selected Edit view contains:

• Navigation element labeled as VPS Management
• Parent view labeled as Servers
• Current view labeled as Edit

Note

The intermediate item element labeled as Servers is not visible in breadcrumbs.

In this case, Breadcrumbs in CCP will look as follows:

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