How to open a view at a specific position

[jdneo]

Apologize if this is not the right place to ask question.

I'm developing a plugin that has a customized view. And I hope when the view is opened, it can be located at the right of the IDE. (currently it appears at bottom).

I found something like this:

<extension
	point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
	<perspectiveExtension
		targetID="*">
		<view
			id="com.microsoft.copilot.eclipse.ui.chat.ChatView"
			minimized="false"
			relationship="right"
			relative="?"
		>
		</view>
	</perspectiveExtension>
</extension>

But have no idea what to fill in the relative field. Could you please advise?

Thank you for your assistance.

[mickaelistria]

relative would be the id of another view in the perspective. You won't be able to find a generic "relative" that applies too all perspectives.
For what you're trying to achieve, I think it could be simpler to let your plugin get the IPartService and add some IPartListener on startup to react to the view being opened.

[jdneo]

@mickaelistria Thank you for the quick response!

For what you're trying to achieve, I think it could be simpler to let your plugin get the IPartService and add some IPartListener on startup to react to the view being opened.

A little bit lost for this. Would you mind give more details?

[laeubi]

I think here are several ways. So you should maybe describe what means

it can be located at the right of the IDE. (currently it appears at bottom)

because "right" and "bottom" depend on the current perspective, in general you likely talk about part stacks (!) where you want to place your view ...