Adding a Dashboard Shortcut

To add a shortcut to the WSO2 Developer Studio Kernel Dashboard, you need to extend the Developer Studio extension point as shown in the example below.

<extension
		point="org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.platform.core.intro.ui.dashboard">
		<wizardCategory category="org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.multiple.artifact.project.category"/>
    	<category id="dashboard.category.multiple.artifact.project" showTitle="true"
                  title="Multiple Artifact Project"
                  priority="8">
        </category>
        <wizardLink category="dashboard.category.multiple.artifact.project" id="dashboard.wizardLink.multiple.artifact.project.project"
                    wizard="org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.artifact.newMultipleArtifactProject">
        </wizardLink>
        <wizardLink category="dashboard.category.multiple.artifact.project" id="dashboard.wizardLink.multiple.artifact.project.xml.artifact"
                    wizard="org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.artifact.newxmlartifact">
        </wizardLink>
   </extension>

This will add a new category and wizard links in the Developer Studio dashboard as shown below:

You can see that one link includes an image and the other does not, according to how the extension point was defined above. When defining the class, define the wizard page which needs to be opened upon clicking the wizard link.