Plugins can be accessed by calling them from the GRT Shell. For more information on this topic see Section 9.3, “The Shell”. You can also add entries to the main_menu.xml file, found in the C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Workbench version\data directory.

To determine how to add entries to the main_menu.xml file, open it in a text editor and search for Plugins Menu. Performing this search takes you to the top level Plugins entry. Beneath this entry find a sample submenu entry that has been commented out. This entry should look something like the following:

  <value type="object" struct-name="app.MenuItem" id="com.mysql.wb.menu.plugins.plugin_name">
    <link type="object" key="owner" struct-name="app.MenuItem">com.mysql.wb.menu.plugins</link>
    <value type="string" key="name">menu_name</value>
    <value type="string" key="caption">menu_caption</value>
    <value type="string" key="itemType">cascade</value>
    <value type="list" key="subItems" content-type="object" content-struct-name="app.MenuItem">
  </value>

Use this entry as a guideline for creating submenus under the Plugins top level menu entry.