Adding additional custom tabs to non-detail views

[aa659]

NetBox version

v4.2.4

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

With #18029 adding support for registering non-detail custom views via register_model_view(detail=False), would it be possible to also add support for adding tabs for these views (via the ViewTab class)?

Currently, only ObjectView uses the tab field, so I presume this would have to be moved up one level to the BaseObjectView/BaseMultiObjectView classes, and the templates updated to dynamically insert the tabs similar to how generic/object.html does:

{# Include tabs for registered model views #}
{% model_view_tabs object %}

(Since a non-detail view can either be a list, edit or delete view, it would probably be necessary to specify or identify what type of view we want to add the tab to?)

Use case

My plugin adds a "Quick Create" view with a custom form to make it easier to bulk create prefixes, IPs and interfaces for a specified device. I have registered my custom view as such:

@register_model_view(model=Prefix, name='quick_add', detail=False)
class PrefixQuickCreateView(View):
# ...

which makes it available under /ipam/prefixes/quick-add/, however I'd also like to add a corresponding "Quick Create" custom tab which would show up when navigating to /ipam/prefixes/add/ (i.e PrefixEditView)

Database changes

No response

External dependencies

No response

[jeremystretch]

however I'd also like to add a corresponding "Quick Create" custom tab which would show up when navigating to /ipam/prefixes/add/

To clarify, do you mean to have an alternative tab render next to the "Create" tab, like what NetBox currently does on the creation page for IP addresses?

[aa659]

however I'd also like to add a corresponding "Quick Create" custom tab which would show up when navigating to /ipam/prefixes/add/

To clarify, do you mean to have an alternative tab render next to the "Create" tab, like what NetBox currently does on the creation page for IP addresses?

Yes exactly. Like this:

[jeremystretch]

I'm not sure how we'd go about that to be honest; the tab registration system currently supports only the detail view for an object. We would need to introduce the concept of view action (detail, list, add, etc.) as part of the tab registration mechanism.

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