[Feature] Custom Object Tabs for Custom Objects

[stefanoparis-mgh]

'typed_models': ['netbox_custom_objects.*'] ignored. Is support planned?

Thanks

[Kani999]

Thank you for the report!

Could you clarify what you're expecting? My assumption is: you have Custom Object Type A with a field pointing to Custom Object Type B, and you'd like a tab to appear on Custom Object B's detail page showing all A instances that reference it — essentially CO→CO tabs.

Is that correct, or did you have a different use case in mind?

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After investigating the code, I can confirm this is a bug — is silently ignored because the wildcard resolver only finds statically-defined Django models (like CustomObjectType, CustomObjectTypeField), not the dynamically-generated per-type models that are created on-demand by CustomObjectType.get_model(). A fix is planned.

One important note: since tabs are registered at NetBox startup, a restart will be required whenever a new Custom Object Type is added — the same behavior that already applies to all typed tabs.

[stefanoparis-mgh]

Correct! CTO Type A pointing to CTO Type B but no additional tab.

Restart is not a problem

Thanks

[Kani999]

I believe I’ll manage at least a Beta release today.

[stefanoparis-mgh]

Thanks! If it helps, I am able to test it and give you a feedback!

[Kani999]

@stefanoparis-mgh could you try installing version 2.1.0b1 and let me know if it resolves your issue?

You can install it with:
pip install netbox-custom-objects-tab==2.1.0b1

Any feedback would be appreciated!

[stefanoparis-mgh]

It works perfectly! Thanks!

[Kani999]

Hi @stefanoparis-mgh,

Version v2.1.0 has been released and is available on PyPI, so you can now use the latest release. 🎉

Thank you for the report and for testing!