Adding Custom Actions Adding Custom Actions

Adding Custom Actions

You can add as many custom actions as you need into Iconik

Roles

These are the roles that are needed:

  • Owner
  • can delete custom actions
  • can read custom actions
  • can write custom actions

To Add a Custom Action:

  1. Click on ADMIN in the top navigation.
  2. Choose Settings 95128218-1cde-4fe5-a776-672c7958f952.png  from the left navigation bar.
  3. Choose Custom Actions custom_action.png from the menu that appears from under the Settings icon.
  4. Click on + NEW CUSTOM ACTION at the top of the list
  5. A modal dialog will appear
  6. On the top of the list:
    • Select the title for the custom action.
    • Select what context the trigger can be called from.
      • Asset - lets you manually trigger an asset from the asset’s page or the search page.
      • Collection - lets you manually trigger a collection from the collection’s page or the search page.
      • Bulk - lets you manually trigger multiple marked entities from the search page.
      • Saved Search - lets you manually trigger multiple marked entities from saved searches.
      • Shared Asset - trigger from page a user gets when visiting an asset share.
      • Shared Collection - trigger from page a user gets when visiting a collection share.
      • None - Show the custom action on the search page when nothing is selected.
    • Select what call will be made, POST or Open. 
    • Add the URL which the custom action shall POST a message to.
    • If you have selected POST and want HTTP headers sent, you can define the header and the value. Click + ADD. Headers can only be added to custom actions of type POST.
    • You may choose to add a metadata view that can be filled in when the custom action is triggered.
    • Choose the App name from the list of Application Tokens
    • Choose whether the custom action should be enabled or not.
  7. Click + ADD to add the action.