Activities Example

The following plug-in contains an example of two different activity techniques. The first technique demonstrates how activities can be used to filter a specific contribution, in this case, the Problems view. The second technique is to filter an entire plugin.

Note: For the end user, Activities are referred to as Capabilities in the UI.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?eclipse version="3.0"?>
<plugin
   id="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple"
   name="Simple Activities Plug-in"
   version="1.0.0"
   provider-name="IBM">
   <requires>
      <import plugin="org.eclipse.ui"/>
   </requires>
   
   <!-- Define the Examples category -->
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">
      <category
            description="Contains bindings declared in the org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple plugin."
            name="Examples"
            id="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Category"/>
   </extension>
   
   <!-- The following extension will filter out the Problems View-->
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">
      <activity
            description="Allows usage of the Problems View"
            name="Problems View Filter"
            id="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Problems"/>
      <activityPatternBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Problems"
            pattern="org\.eclipse\.ui\.ide/org\.eclipse\.ui\.views\.ProblemView"/>
      <categoryActivityBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Problems"
            categoryId="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Category"/>
      <defaultEnablement id="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Problems"/>
   </extension>
   
   <!-- The following extension will filter all contributions from the org.eclipse.team* plugins -->
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">
      <activity
            id="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Team"
            description="Filters all &quot;Team&quot; contributions."
            name="Team Views Filter"/>
      <activityPatternBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Team"
            pattern="org\.eclipse\.team.*/.*"/>
      <categoryActivityBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Team"
            categoryId="org.eclipse.ui.examples.activities.simple.Category"/>
   </extension>
</plugin>

Activities

Capabilities