Contribution points

This document covers the various contribution points that are defined in the package.json extension manifest. These are in addition to the ones inherited by VS Code.

dashboard

Contribute tab, container, insight widget to the dashboard.

dashboard.tabs

dashboard.tabs will create the tab sections inside the dashboard page. It expects an object or an array of objects.  

"dashboard.tabs": [
	{
		"id": "test-tab1",
		"title": "Test 1",
		"description": "The test 1 displays a list of widgets.",
		"when": "connectionProvider == 'MSSQL' && !mssql:iscloud",
		"alwaysShow": true,
		"container": {
			…
		}
	}
]

dashboard.containers

Instead of specifying dashboard container inline (inside the dashboard.tab). You can register containers using dashboard.containers. It accepts an object or an array of the object.

"dashboard.containers": [
	{
		"id": "innerTab1",
		"container": {
			…
		}
	},
	{
		"id": "innerTab2",
		"container": {
			…
		}
	}
]

To refer to registered container, you can simply specify the id of the container

"dashboard.tabs": [
	{
		...
		"container": {
			"innerTab1": {             
			}
		}
	}
]

dashboard.insights

You can register insights using dashboard.insights. This is similiar to Tutorial: Build a custom insight widget

"dashboard.insights": {
	"id": "my-widget"
	"type": {
		"count": {
			"dataDirection": "vertical",
			"dataType": "number",
			"legendPosition": "none",
            "labelFirstColumn": false,
			"columnsAsLabels": false
        }
    },
    "queryFile": "{your file folder}/activeSession.sql"
}

Dashboard container types

There are 4 different container types that we currently support:

1. widgets-container

   The list of widgets that will be displayed in the container. It’s a flow layout. It accepts the list of widgets.

   "container": {
   	"widgets-container": [
   		{
   			"widget": {
   				"query-data-store-db-insight": {
   				}
   			}
   		},
   		{
   			"widget": {
   				"explorer-widget": {
   				}
   			}
   		}
   	]
   }
   

2. webview-container

   The webview will be displayed in the entire container. It expects webview id to be the same is tab ID

   "container": {
   	"webview-container": null
   }
   

3. grid-container

   The list of widgets or webviews that will be displayed in the grid layout

   "container": {
   	"grid-container": [
   		{
   			"name": "widget 1",
   			"widget": {
   				"explorer-widget": {
   				}
   			},
   			"row":0,
   			"col":0
   		},
   		{
   			"name": "widget 2",
   			"widget": {
   				"tasks-widget": {
   					"backup", 
   					"restore",
   					"configureDashboard",
   					"newQuery"
   				}
   			},
   			"row":0,
   			"col":1
   		},
   		{
   			"name": "Webview 1",
   			"webview": {
   				"id": "google"
   			},
   			"row":1,
   			"col":0,
   			"colspan":2
   		},
   		{
   			"name": "widget 3",
   			"widget": {
   				"explorer-widget": {}
   			},
   			"row":0,
   			"col":3,
   			"rowspan":2
   		},
   	]
   

4. nav-section

   The navigation section will be displayed in the container

   "container": {
   	"nav-section": [
   		{
   			"id": "innerTab1",
   			"title": "inner-tab1",
   			"icon": {
   				"light": "./icons/tab1Icon.svg",
   				"dark": "./icons/tab1Icon_dark.svg"
   			}
   			"container": {
   				…
   			}
   		},
   		{
   			"id": "innerTab2",
   			"title": "inner-tab2",
   			"icon": {
   				"light": "./icons/tab2Icon.svg",
   				"dark": "./icons/tab2Icon_dark.svg"
   			}
   			"container": {
   				…
   			}
   		}
   	]
   }
   

dataExplorer

This is an array of dataExplorer contributions, each with the following properties. This is used to add views to the Connections view container in the panel - it currently doesn't support having views adding through the normal contributes.views extension point from VS Code.

dataExplorer.id

The ID of the view - used when registering the associated vscode.TreeDataProvider

dataExplorer.name

The human-readable name of the view shown in the title bar

dataExplorer.when

The when-clause condition for when the view will be shown

menus

These are custom menu contributions for Azure Data Studio, in addition to the built-in ones inherited from VS Code.

dataExplorer/context

Menu items for Data Explorer contributed views.

objectExplorer/item/context

Menu items for the Object Explorer (Server) tree view