Adding Header Components to an OMX Web App (Store, OMS, Inventory etc)

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Author:

Matt Salmon

Changed on:

24 July 2024

Key Points

A step-by-step guide on how to add a custom help menu to the header to serve as inspiration for other custom components that can be added

Steps

Customise your app manifest

This is an app-level setting. When adding a component to the STORE or OMS header bar, a customised manifest is required. The manifest name should follow the format

`fc.mystique.manifest.<web-app-name>`

. Here is an example of how to add a customised OMS manifest:

Reference Manifests

If you do not have a copy of the reference manifests to override or you are new to configuring the UI in general, the following guide will help you learn how to do so.

Build out the custom help menu component

First we will build out the new help menu to be included in the header. See below for some sample code to get you started.

1import { Box, IconButton, Link, Tooltip, Typography, useTheme } from '@material-ui/core';
2import { MdHelpOutline } from 'react-icons/md';
3
4export const HelpMenu = () => {
5  const { spacing } = useTheme();
6  return (
7    <Tooltip
8      arrow
9      interactive
10      title={
11        <Box css={{ padding: spacing(2) }}>
12          <Typography variant="body2">
13            For Store documentation click{' '}
14            <Link target="_blank" href="https://docs.fluentcommerce.com/essential-knowledge/stores">
15              here
16            </Link>
17          </Typography>
18        </Box>
19      }
20    >
21      <IconButton>
22        <MdHelpOutline color="white" />
23      </IconButton>
24    </Tooltip>
25  );
26};
27

Language: typescript

Name: Help Menu component code

Description:

[Warning: empty required content area]

Make sure to add the component to the registry! Your export should look something like:

`ComponentRegistry.register(['custom.helpMenu'], HelpMenu, { category: 'content' });`

Next we will add the header field into our root level manifest

To add components into the header bar you must first add the

`header`

field at the root level in the manifest. Multiple components can be added within the

`desktop`

and

`mobile`

fields. Here is an example of the

`header`

configuration:

1{
2    "manifestVersion": "2.0",
3    "name": "store",
4    "title": "Fluent Store",
5    "orchestrationAlias": "servicepoint",
6    "homePath": "waves",
7    "header": {
8        "desktop": [
9            {
10                "position": "right",
11                "component": "custom.helpMenu"
12            }
13        ],
14        "mobile": [
15            {
16                "position": "right",
17                "component": "custom.helpMenu"
18            }
19        ]
20    },
21    "plugins": [
22        {
23            "type": "url",
24            "src": "/_plugins/store"
25        },
26        {
27            "type": "url",
28            "src": "/_plugins/returns"
29        }
30    ],
31    "context": {
32        "level": "location",
33        "role": [
34            "STORE_ASSISTANT",
35            "STORE"
36        ]
37    },
38    "routes": [
39        {
40            "type": "reference",
41            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.waves"
42        },
43        {
44            "type": "reference",
45            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.orders.awaitingpick"
46        },
47        {
48            "type": "reference",
49            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.waves.inprogress"
50        },
51        {
52            "type": "reference",
53            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.waves.complete"
54        },
55        {
56            "type": "reference",
57            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.arrivals"
58        },
59        {
60            "type": "reference",
61            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.customer.collections"
62        },
63        {
64            "type": "reference",
65            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.carrier.collections"
66        },
67        {
68            "type": "reference",
69            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.uncollected"
70        },
71        {
72            "type": "reference",
73            "settingName": "fc.mystique.manifest.store.fragment.returns"
74        }
75    ]
76}

Language: json

Name: header code snippet

Description:

headerDescendants code snippet

There is no limit to the number of components that can be added, so screen size should be taken into account. Adding too many components may overrun onto adjacent components.

Now we will configure the position of the help menu

Component alignment can be specified using the

`position`

field. Alignment options include 'left', 'right', 'center', or 'centre'. The

`position`

field is not mandatory; if it is missing or contains an invalid option, the default alignment is 'left'.

1 "header": {
2        "desktop": [
3            {
4                "position": "right",
5                // other MystiqueComponentInstance properties
6            }
7        ],
8        "mobile": [
9            {
10                "position": "right",
11                // other MystiqueComponentInstance properties
12            }
13        ]
14    },

Language: json

Name: header code with align snippet

Description:

headerDescendants code with align snippet

Finally we will add the component configuration

Add our

`HelpMenu`

component from the previous steps to the configuration. Because we want the help menu to be available on both desktop and mobile we add the configuration to both.

1 "header": {
2        "desktop": [
3            {
4                "position": "right",
5                "component": "custom.helpMenu"
6            }
7        ],
8        "mobile": [
9            {
10                "position": "right",
11                "component": "custom.helpMenu"
12            }
13        ]
14    },

Language: json

Name: header code with HelpMenu configuration

Description:

headerDescendants code with descendant snippet

Results

The result of adding our help menu component will look like this on desktop:

And on mobile devices it will look like this:

Help menu animation:

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Adding Header Components to an OMX Web App (Store, OMS, Inventory etc)

Key Points

Steps

Customise your app manifest

Build out the custom help menu component

Next we will add the header field into our root level manifest

Now we will configure the position of the help menu

Finally we will add the component configuration

Results

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