Adding a Custom Action

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

1. Click on ADMIN in the top navigation.
2. Choose Settings from the left navigation bar.
   
3. Choose Custom Actions 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:

   1. Select the title for the custom action.
   2. Select from what context the trigger can be called.
      • 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 an collection share.
      • None - Show the custom action on the search page when nothing is selected.
   3. Select what call will be made, POST or Open. (See Post and Open Custom Action for more detail)
   4. Add the URL which the custom action shall POST a message to.
   5. If you have selected POST and you 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.
   6. You may choose to add a metadata view that can be filled in when the custom action is triggered.
   7. Choose the App name from the list of Application Tokens
   8. Choose whether the custom action should be enabled or not.

7. Click + ADD to add the action.

Learn more

• Custom Action Overview
• Editing Custom Actions
• Deleting Custom Actions
• Using a Custom Action