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To add a new menu in organization administration console we need to edit the ‘BuySiteAdminConsole.xml’ which is present in the
the following locations.

Commerce Toolkit installation directory\xml\tools\buyerconsole\BuySiteAdminConsole.xml

or

WCS installation directory\CommerceServer\xml\tools\buyerconsole\BuySiteAdminConsole.xml

If we want to add a new menu, use the menuitem tag or else (ie for adding submenu) use the node tag.

For eg:

Here name of the menu will be the text displayed in the admin console against the menu. For The users tag contains the roles of all the users who can access this menu. The node tag represents a sub menu. the url will be the action associated with the submenu. Depending on our requirement we can have Wizard, Notebook, Dialog, DynamicList etc views. In the above example the ActionXMLFile points to an xml file present in the ‘mydir’ directory. Before using the xmlfile name here we need to define the xml file definition inside the resources.xml file present in the ‘mydir’ directory. cmd stands for the viewname associated with the submenu action.

The name of the xml file (which is defined inside the attribute ‘name’) is coming from the corresponding properties file. The default properties file for BuySiteAdminConsole.xml is BuyAdminConsoleNLS.properties. This file is present inside the following directory.

Commerce Toolkit Install Directory\properties\com\ibm\commerce\tools\buyerconsole\properties\BuyAdminConsoleNLS.properties

or

Appserver install directory\AppServer\installedApps\\\properties\com\ibm\commerce\tools\buyerconsole\properties\BuyAdminConsoleNLS.properties

Depending upon the locale you may need to edit one more properties file which is present in the same directory. For eg: if your locale is en_us you need to edit BuyAdminConsoleNLS_en_US.properties file also.