Custom shortcut type in D2

D2-Smartview landing page configuration elements like <tile> requires a type attribute to be set. By default all "Widget type" found in D2-Config are accepted as valid values. However, while defining new shortcuts for the landing page tile one might need to use a value that is not a "Widget type" at all or in other words the value is not pre-defined. Additionally, while defining new application scope perspective one might need to declare a default widget name for the corresponding perspective to use when a direct URL based navigation is taking place in the UI.

To facilitate this, an SDK developer can create a properties file {Plugin}/resources/string/config/U4landing.properties. There are two properties that can be defined in the file -

default_widget_tags: This allows declaring new valid XML tag names to go under the <default-widgets> section in the D2SV landing page file. Multiple comma separated values could be specified.
shortcut_types: This allows declaring valid values for `type` attribute of <tile>. Multiple comma separated values could be specified.

Example

default_widget_tags=abcd,defg
shortcut_types=custom1,custom2

If this is the content of the U4Landing.properties file, then the following hypothetical landing page structure is accepted as valid configuration

<root>
    <space>
        <flow-layout-container>
            <content>
                <tile-container size="full">
                    <tile name="one" type="custom1">
                        <theme color="shade1" type="stone1"/>
                    </tile>
                    <tile name="two" type="custom2">
                        <theme color="shade1" type="indigo1"/>
                    </tile>
                </tile-container>
            </content>
        </flow-layout-container>
    </space>
    <default-widgets>
        <abcd>SOME_NAME</abcd>
        <defg>ANOTHER</defg>
    </default-widgets>
</root>

Custom shortcut type in D2

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