PLESK 7.5 RELOADED > Performing Administrative Tasks

Managing Custom Buttons

You can add to the control panel any number of custom buttons that will be linked to a specific URL, and choose to either make them visible to the mail account users accessing the control panel (if access granted), or only to yourself. The buttons can be placed either in the Navigation pane, or the Domain Administration page (your Home page).

To manage custom buttons, click the Custom Buttons icon on your Home page.

To create a new custom button, follow these steps:

  1. When on the Custom buttons repository page, click Add New Button. The Custom button properties page opens.

  2. Type the button label in the Button label field.

  3. Choose the location for your button.

  4. Specify the priority of the button. It will be used for defining the button layout order in cases when there are several custom buttons on a page.

  5. You can use an image for a button background. To do this, type in the path to its location or click Browse to browse for a file. It is recommended to use a 16x16 pixels GIF or JPEG image for a button to be placed in the navigation pane, and 32x32 pixels GIF or JPEG image for buttons placed in the main frame.

  6. Type the URL link to be attached to the button into the URL field.

  7. Using the checkboxes, specify whether to include the data, such as domain id and domain name to be transferred within the URL. These data can be required for processing by external web applications.

  8. In the Context help tip contents input field, type in the help tip that will be displayed when users hover the mouse pointer over the button.

  9. Select the Open URL in the Control Panel checkbox if you wish the destination URL to be opened in the control panel's right frame, otherwise leave this checkbox unchecked to open the URL in a separate browser window.

  10. If you wish to make this button visible to the mail users, select the Visible to all sub-logins checkbox.

  11. Click OK to complete creation.

Once a new button is created it appears in the list of custom buttons.

To change the properties of a button, select its label in the list. Note, if you wish to make a button visible/invisible to other users (sub-logins), you can simply click an icon in the A column of the list.

To delete one or several buttons, select the corresponding checkboxes, and click Remove Selected.


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