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feat(devmanual): Document contacts menu basics #11222

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89 changes: 89 additions & 0 deletions developer_manual/digging_deeper/groupware/contacts_menu.rst
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=============
Contacts Menu
=============

Nextcloud shows a *Contacts menu* in the right corner of the header. This menu lists a user's contacts. These contact entries can be extended by apps.
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An image (as an example might be nice here).

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I'm not a fan of too many screenshots in the docs because they are getting outdated so fast and redoing all screenshots for a release is a lot of work

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It was just a suggestion. Feel free to resolve this comment.


Apps that extend the contacts menu implement an IProvider. The providers ``process`` method is called for every entry show in the contacts menu.

.. code-block:: php
:caption: lib/ContactsMenu/MyProvider.php
<?php
namespace OCA\MyApp\ContactsMenu;
use OCP\Contacts\ContactsMenu\IEntry;
use OCP\Contacts\ContactsMenu\IProvider;
class MyProvider implements IProvider {
public function process(IEntry $entry): void {
// todo: something useful
}
}
.. code-block:: xml
:caption: appinfo/info.xml
:emphasize-lines: 6-8
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<info xmlns:xsi= "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://apps.nextcloud.com/schema/apps/info.xsd">
<id>my_app</id>
<name>My App</name>
<contactsmenu>
<provider>OCA\MyApp\ContactsMenu\LinkActionProvider</provider>
</contactsmenu>
</info>
Accessing contact info
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The ``IEntry`` objects offer getters to contact infos:

* ``getFullName()``: Get full name. Falls back to an empty string if no full name is set.
* ``getEMailAddresses()``: Get all email addresses.
* ``getAvatar()``: Get the avatar URI.
* ``getProperty(string $name)``: Read a `vCard property <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6350#page-23>`_ of the contact. Return NULL if the property is not set.

Actions
^^^^^^^

Providers can add actions to contact entries. Right now email and link actions are supported. These are created with the help of the ``IActionFactory``.

.. code-block:: php
:caption: lib/ContactsMenu/LinkProvider.php
<?php
namespace OCA\MyApp\ContactsMenu;
use OCP\Contacts\ContactsMenu\IEntry;
use OCP\Contacts\ContactsMenu\IProvider;
class LinkProvider implements IProvider {
private IActionFactory $actionFactory;
public function __construct(IActionFactory $actionFactory) {
$this->actionFactory = $actionFactory
}
public function process(IEntry $entry): void {
$emailAction = $this->actionFactory->newEMailAction(
'/apps/myapp/img/link.png', // icon URL
'Click me', // name
'user@domain.tld', // email address
'my_app', // app ID (optional)
);
$linkAction = $this->actionFactory->newLinkAction(
'/apps/myapp/img/link.png', // icon URL
'Click me', // name
'https://.....', // href
'my_app', // app ID (optional)
);
$entry->addAction($emailAction);
$entry->addAction($linkAction);
}
}
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calendar
calendar_provider
contacts_menu