Admin Plugin Node without childs, use the GenerateUserControl() only

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Is it really not possible to render only the main plugin root node (MC) and use GenerateUserControl from the plugin definition to load a custom control for my needs?

I do have item managers, but I want to hide them and manage everything inside our own control. However, when I set the PlacementHint to hide them from the left tree, even the plugin node itself is no longer shown because it has no visible children.

That feels a bit crazy to me, because this seems like the perfect use case for WebUI-style plugins, where you just want to show your own UI instead of exposing individual item managers in the tree.

Is there really no solution for this? I would love to have one.

Big thanks!

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Hi Christoph
Might be me not getting entirely what you you want to achieve but isn’t the ServiceTest sample doing what you ask? MIP SDK Documentation
Br,
Peter

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Hi Peter,

Oh looks like its exactly what i wanted, strange, I will explore the diffrence, may its because I have an ItemManger added but hidden what force it then to hide the root node. Basically its exactly what i want just one custom control at rool level node click but underhood have serval mip items eg item manager with placement hint set to HiddenInLeftTree.

BR

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ok this works only when no item managers are definied, if I add one the plugin node is not visible and is gone.