I have created a custom module and want to add a Button that calls a backend function. So far I have only found guides on how to add buttons to detailviewdefs like this one but none of them show on how to add a button in the Listview in v8.
I circled the position in the screenshot where I want the button (it should generate PDFs). Is this even called Listview?
Any help or further links would be appreciated 
Yes, I think that’s a List view.
I don’t know the answer, but…
Can you find any example in core modules where such an extra button exists?
I am reworking an old module where such a button exists so there is definitely a way havent looked that deep into the core modules, but I am also not able to find where the New Buttons is defined (I could just change that one).
On Contacts module, I see a button on the list view saying "Import Contact from vCard".
Searching the code for that string, I see it’s label LNK_IMPORT_VCARD.
Searching the code for that, I see it’s used in public/legacy/modules/Contacts/Menu.php, and the option is created my adding an entry to a $module_menu array.
That seems to be loaded in public/legacy/include/MVC/View/SugarView.php, function getMenu.
I’m pretty sure that changing this will solve your problem in legacy modules, I am not so sure if that same scheme is used in v8 modules, but I think it is. Didn’t try it, though.
Tell me how it goes 
There’s actually documentation for this!
Thx for sharing as I noticed they are also using the LegacyHandler Function to access Beans. So now there is documentation on that yay
Hi sorry i know this is a slightly old thread now but wondering if someone could help me with this? I have managed to get the button into the menu dropdown as per the documentation but i still cannot figure out how to get the button as per the original post screenshot?
I can find all sorts of screenshots and videos with seaid buttons in but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it
any help would be much appreciated
I think that screenshot was from v7, just saying “this is where I would want it”.
There’s an option in Admin / System settings to show all the buttons on the top, instead of inside a dropdown. I always set that for everyone in the organization, saves a ton of clicks. Maybe that will make your button visible enough.
that is a v8 screenshot the NEW button should be there by default it is used to create a new record. If you followed the guide linked in this thread the button should work and call your processhandler
