Last update: January 21, 2025

Blade Toolbar

Blade toolbar represents a dedicated area inside a blade, where one can add controls, which we will call, for convenience, toolbar items.

Toolbar items can be added to a blade instance directly or using Virto Commerce platform toolbar extensibility service.

Add toolbar items directly to blade instance

Toolbar items are usually defined and added in the Angular.js controller, which is bound to a specific blade in the UI. Adding an item to the toolbar is pretty straightforward: you just need to define the $scope.blade.toolbarCommands array with the items in question:

$scope.blade.toolbarCommands = [
  {
    name: "Save",
    icon: 'fa fa-save',
    title: 'Save action tooltip text', // or you can use keys for translation "platform.commands.titles.save"
    executeMethod: function () {
      $scope.saveChanges();
    },
    canExecuteMethod: function () {
      return isDirty();
    },
    permission: 'platform:security:manage'
  },
  {
    name: "Reset",
    icon: 'fa fa-undo',
    title: 'Reset action tooltip text',
    executeMethod: function () {
      angular.copy($scope.blade.origEntity, $scope.blade.currentEntity);
      userStateCommand.updateName();
    },
    canExecuteMethod: function () {
      return isDirty();
    },
    permission: 'platform:security:manage'
  },
  {
    name: "Change password",
    icon: 'fa fa-refresh',
    title: 'Change password action tooltip text',
    executeMethod: function () {
      var newBlade = {
        id: 'accountDetailChild',
        currentEntityId: $scope.blade.currentEntity.userName,
        title: $scope.blade.title,
        subtitle: "Change your password",
        controller: 'platformWebApp.accountChangePasswordController',
        template: 'Scripts/common/security/blades/account-changePassword.tpl.html'
      };
      bladeNavigationService.showBlade(newBlade, $scope.blade);
    },
    canExecuteMethod: function () {
      return true;
    },
    permission: 'platform:security:manage'
  }
];

Add toolbar items from external code

A dedicated service is used for adding toolbar items externally, without having any reference to the blade instance. The preferred place for registering a toolbar item is the module run block in Angular.js. What you need is reference platformWebApp.toolbarService as toolbarService, create item option, and call register against the service:

toolbarService.register({
  name: "ADDITIONAL COMMAND", icon: 'fa fa-cloud',
  title: 'Action command tooltip text',
  executeMethod: function (blade) {
    console.log('test: ' + this.name + this.icon + blade);
  },
  canExecuteMethod: function () { return true; },
  index: 2
}, 'virtoCommerce.marketingModule.itemsDynamicContentListController');

toolbarService.register parameters:

Parameter	Description
toolbarItem	Toolbar item definition.
toolbarController	Full toolbar controller name.

Toolbar item definition structure:

Member	Description
name	Display name for the item.
icon	Icon for toolbar item.
title	Tooltip message for the button.
executeMethod	Function to run when the item is activated.
canExecuteMethod	Function to determine whether the item could be executed. The item is disabled in the toolbar if the false value is returned.
index	The 0-based position to insert the item in the toolbar.