Custom App in Frappe Desk

[kennethsequeira]

@stelden

Installed Frappe, using Easy Install with --production --without-erpnext (pulls version 12)

Check your Frappe version. If it is version 12, desk page is not applicable. Desk page is used to build the pages and shortcuts for version 13 onwards.

For version 12, you can refer to the following:

Add module Engineering Management (module visibility issue)

I have fiddled with the desktop and module layouts and found out it’s all a bit trickier. You actually have to have both files: desktop.py – for the whole module to be visible on the main Desk screen. app_name.py – for the layout of the module links inside the module menu, which you can access from the main Desk screen. desktop.py is structured more or less the same as it was in v11. I think the devs added some v12-specific options, but I’m afraid you’ll have to look at some of the existing…