I have searched several forums posts at the VTiger community just to find out how to add a menu tab entry on VTiger CRM.

It’s kind of insane the way things were posted and you just could not find a entry that actually showed all the steps to create a new menu tab.

For a start the version that I’m using is 5.02 and this is what you will need to do to create a new menu tab.

1st. Add a entry on the file tabdata.php for the new menu:

$tab_info_array=array(’Dashboard’=>1,’Potentials’=>2,’Home’=>3,’Contacts’=>4,’Accounts’=>6,
‘Leads’=>7,’Notes’=>8,’Calendar’=>9,’Emails’=>10,’HelpDesk’=>13,’Products’=>14,
‘Faq’=>15,’Events’=>16,’Vendors’=>18,’PriceBooks’=>19,’Quotes’=>20,’PurchaseOrder’=>21,
‘SalesOrder’=>22,’Invoice’=>23,’Rss’=>24,’Reports’=>25,’Campaigns’=>26,
‘Portal’=>27,’Webmails’=>28,’Users’=>29,’NewMenu‘=>30);

$tab_seq_array=array(’1′=>0,’2′=>0,’3′=>0,’4′=>0,’6′=>0,’7′=>0,’8′=>0,’9′=>0,
‘10′=>0,’13′=>0,’14′=>0,’15′=>0,’16′=>2,’18′=>0,’19′=>0,’20′=>0,’21′=>0,’22′=>0,
‘23′=>0,’24′=>0,’25′=>0,’26′=>0,’27′=>0,’28′=>0,’29′=>0,’30‘=>0);

2nd. Add a menu sequence tab on the parent_tabdata.php:

$parent_tab_info_array=array(1=>’My Home Page’,/*2=>’Marketing’,*/3=>’Sales’,/*4=>’Support’,*/5=>’Analytics’,6=>’Inventory’,
/*7=>’Tools’,*/8=>’Settings’,9=>’NewMenu‘);
$parent_child_tab_rel_array=array(1=>array(3,9,10,),/*2=>array(26,6,4,10,7,9,8,),
*/3=>array(6,7,4,2,20,22,23,14,19,8,9,),/*4=>array(13,15,6,4,14,8,10,9,),
*/5=>array(1,25,),6=>array(14,18,19,21,22,20,23,),/*7=>array(24,27,8,),
*/8=>array(),9=>array(30,));

*** Note: If you want to remove a tab entry, just comment it out (easier way, but will remove for all profiles).

2nd and 1/2. If you are creating a new module, edit the file en_us_lang.php inside includes/languages and add on the moduleList array a entry for your menu.

3rd. Add entries on the following tables for the new menu.

vtiger_tab
vtiger_parenttab <- This sequence must follow the sequence on the parent_tab_info_array
vtiger_parenttabrel <- You must enter a parent tab pointing to the menu entry here (9=>30)
vtiger_profile2tab
vtiger_profile2standardpermissions

After this the menu entry will be show as a new tab on the main menu.