Creating an Admin Menu Item On Launch Pad

If you are building a Sitecore admin application, you are going to need to link to them from the Sitecore start screen/launch pad.

To create a menu item on the Sitecore start screen:

• Log into Sitecore and switch to the core DB.
• Open content editor and navigate to /Sitecore/client/Applications/LaunchPad/PageSettings/Buttons
• You will see groupings for each of the sections that appear on the start screen/Launchpad.
• Add a new LaunchPad Group using  "/sitecore/client/Applications/Launchpad/PageSettings/Templates/LaunchPad-Group" Template and given Title is "Admin Section" as see the below screenshot.
  
  
• Add a new Launch Pad-Button item to the "Admin Section" section you want it to appear in.
• Give it a name, icon and link.
  

  

  

  
  
• Your button now appears on the start screen
  
  
  
• Now you can click on "Show Config" button and show the config file.