Intranet Start Menu Autor: jcmacph

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR FIRST-TIME USERS

Please note that this add-on comes in a "blank" state. You must provide it with the URL to a JSON config file to import in order to run. It does not work out-of-the-box.

Features

• an intuitive 3 column pop-up Windows 10 Metro Tile Start-like menu
  • 1st column: categories list; quickly filter your view of stores sites by category
  • 2nd column: search box and alphabetized sites list
  • 3rd column: alphabetized Metro tiles sites list
• a search box to quickly filter stored sites or perform an external search against Intranet resources
• tag sites as favourites to have them listed at the top of the Intranet Start Menu.

For end-users: an admin must provide you with the URL to a JSON config file that you can import from the add-on's Options menu.

For admins: you must create and host a JSON config file for your end-users. A sample file is provided from the Options page.

Please note the following when building your JSON config file:

• In the SEARCHMENU section, the "searchURL" must have %s somewhere in the URL. This will be replaced by the user's search text when the add-on is in use.
• In the CATEGORYMENU section, each category must match a category item from a site in the ALLSITES section.
• In the ALLSITES section, please not that the site key field must all be the same case; either all upper case or all lower case. Do not mix case in the key field as this is the field used to sort the sites in the add-on.
• The "icon" attribute can use either a Metro Icon Font (MIF), or any URL accessible image file (.ico, .gif, .jpg, .png, etc...).
  Image files should be stored on the same web server as your JSON config file.MIF icons can include both bg and fg colour specifications. The default is white.
  • For a complete Metro UI icon list, please visit: https://www.metroui.org.ua/icons.html
  • For a complete Metro UI colour list, please visit: https://metroui.org.ua/colors.html
• Tile colours are denoted using bg-<colour>.
• Valid tile sizes are as follows: small, medium, wide, and large.

Note: this add-on utilizes both the jQuery and Metro UI Javascript frameworks.