Customers can manage and view their activities from account dashboard. The customer dashboard consists of several sections like “My Accounts”, “Orders” and “addresses” etc. Sometimes a store owner may require to enhance the user experience or create a new feature by adding a particular tab to the customer dashboard.
So today we will find out how we can achieve it in a few steps.
Begin with creating a frontend layout customer_account.xml inside your module and add a block with required arguments:
Know/Module/view/frontend/layout/customer_account.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<body>
<referenceBlock name="customer_account_navigation">
<block class="Magento\Customer\Block\Account\SortLinkInterface" name="customer-account-navigation-my-calendar">
<arguments>
<argument name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">My Calendar</argument>
<argument name="path" xsi:type="string">module/calendar</argument>
<argument name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">15</argument>
</arguments>
</block>
</referenceBlock>
</body>
</page>
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| Name | Description |
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Magento\Customer\Block\Account\SortLinkInterface | A sortable interface used to sort the navigation links. The sort order is provided in arguments. |
| label | Specifies the tab label. |
| path | Path is used to specify the target path or url when customer clicks the tab link. |
| sortOrder | Sorts the tab link display position. |
Flush the cache and load the customer dashboard index page. The output should be similar to the screenshot below:
Let us go ahead and add a separator before our tab link. Open your customer_account.xml layout file. This is an optional step. We are using it because we want to categories our feature tab.
Edit the layout: Know/Module/view/frontend/layout/customer_account.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<body>
<referenceBlock name="customer_account_navigation">
<block class="Magento\Customer\Block\Account\SortLinkInterface" name="customer-account-navigation-my-calendar">
<arguments>
<argument name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">My Calendar</argument>
<argument name="path" xsi:type="string">module/calendar</argument>
<argument name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">15</argument>
</arguments>
</block>
<block class="Magento\Customer\Block\Account\Delimiter" name="customer-account-navigation-delimiter-3" template="Magento_Customer::account/navigation-delimiter.phtml">
<arguments>
<argument name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">20</argument>
</arguments>
</block>
</referenceBlock>
</body>
</page>
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Make sure the sort order for delimiter is greater than the tab link. The output should look like this now:
In next step we will create a custom page for our new tab link. The page should appear inside the customer dashboard. First define a route by creating the routes.xml file under etc/frontend directory.
Create file: Know/Module/etc/frontend/routes.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<router id="standard">
<route id="module" frontName="module">
<module name="Know_Module" />
</route>
</router>
</config>
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Now create Index controller under Controller/Calendar directories.
Create the controller: Know/Module/Controller/Calendar/Index.php
<?php
namespace Know\Module\Controller\Calendar;
use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context;
use Magento\Framework\View\Result\PageFactory;
class Index extends \Magento\Customer\Controller\AbstractAccount
{
protected $resultPageFactory;
public function __construct(
Context $context,
PageFactory $resultPageFactory
) {
$this->resultPageFactory = $resultPageFactory;
parent::__construct($context);
}
public function execute()
{
return $this->resultPageFactory->create();
}
}
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In next and last step create a layout and associated phtml template file.
Create layout first: Know/Module/view/frontend/layout/module_calendar_index.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<update handle="customer_account"/>
<head>
<title>My Calendar - Dashboard</title>
</head>
<body>
<referenceBlock name="page.main.title">
<action method="setPageTitle">
<argument translate="true" name="title" xsi:type="string">My Calendar</argument>
</action>
</referenceBlock>
<referenceContainer name="content">
<block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="tab.mycalendar" template="Know_Module::mycalendar.phtml" />
</referenceContainer>
</body>
</page>
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Now create the specified template: Know/Module/view/frontend/templates/mycalendar.phtml
<?php
?>
<div class="message info empty"><span><?= $escaper->escapeHtml(__('You have no schedule in your calendar. Click Add Schedule button to begin creating the schedules.')) ?></span></div>
<div class="actions-toolbar">
<div class="primary">
<button type="button" role="add-schedule" title="<?= $block->escapeHtmlAttr(__('Add New Schedule')) ?>" class="action primary add"><span><?= $block->escapeHtml(__('Add New Schedule')) ?></span></button>
</div>
<div class="secondary">
<a class="action back" href="<?= $escaper->escapeUrl($block->getUrl('customer/account/')) ?>">
<span><?= $escaper->escapeHtml(__('Back')) ?></span>
</a>
</div>
</div>
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The output for our new tab looks like below:
