How to add a Axis Optimizer style plugin to the Rules and Events category

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We have a requirement to do something similar as the Axis Optimizer. We need a new tab under the Rules and Events section, the list of items should show a filtered list of camera or hardware.

  1. How to we add a new tab under Rules and Events?
  2. Do we need to re-add item nodes for each camera or is there an easier way to do this?
  3. (Edit) Assuming (2) can be done using the SDK, is it possible to get all the camera groups so that we can apply settings to several cameras instead of one-by-one?

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Thank you.

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You need to use PlacementHint when you overwrite the ItemNodes in your plugin definition.

https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=miphelp/namespace_video_o_s_1_1_platform_1_1_admin.html&tree=tree_search.html?search=rulesevents

https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=miphelp/class_video_o_s_1_1_platform_1_1_admin_1_1_item_node.html&tree=tree_search.html?search=itemnodes

A little example from Milestone internal code, this defines the ItemNodes for analytics events..

_analyticsEventsNode = new ItemNode(
	AnalyticsEventItemManager.ItemKind, Guid.Empty,
	StringResources.AnalyticsEvents, analyticsEventImage,
	StringResources.AnalyticsEvents, analyticsEventImage,
	Category.Text, false, ItemsAllowed.Many,
	new AnalyticsEventItemManager(), null, null);
_analyticsEventsNode.SortKey = 1000;
_analyticsEventsNode.PlacementHint = PlacementHint.RulesEvents;
_analyticsEventsNode.PropertyHeading = StringResources.PropertyHeading;
_itemNodes.Clear();
_itemNodes.Add(_analyticsEventsNode);