Add custom action dropdown beside Edit and preview buttons in aem page.

[yellar5366253]

Hi EveryOne,

 I want to add a custom action dropdown ViewAs  like edit   in aem page , when the author  clicked on ViewAs dropdown will open and that dropdown showing group names like groupone and grouptwo and groupthree upto groupfive, if author select the groupone in viewas dropdown   and browser url  is 

<hostname>:portnumber/content/myproject/test02.html?groupName=groupone

Ex : localhost:4502/content/myproject/test02.html?groupName=groupone

Please let us know  any pointers .Urgent requirement.

@arunpatidar  @smacdonald2008 @hashimkhan   @joel_triemstra @Joel_Triemstra1

[arunpatidar]

Hi,

That popover is created using javascript. 

Your idea is achievable but I am not able to guide you because of unclear requirement.

The group part is not clear, what do you mean by selecting groups from dropdown, where this groups comes from?

Anyways, there is a implementation I did to open page as preview, please check

https://aemlab.blogspot.com/2019/07/aem-add-view-button-to-view-pages.html

[BrianKasingli]

Instead of tinkering with the AEM platform, you can as a test, try tinkering with the basePage template. Within your basePage template, you can add HTML and CSS like so:

<sly data-sly-test="${wcmmode.edit}">
 <style text="text/css">
   .extra-author-buttons { position: absolute; top: 50px; left; 50px; background-color: red; }
 </script>
 <div class="extra-author-buttons">
   <a href="${currentPage.path + '?groupName=groupone'">View Group One</a>
   <a href="${currentPage.path + '?groupName=grouptwo'">View Group Two</a>
 </div>
</sly>

Hope this helps.