Customize Context Menu

Information

• PLANTA distinguishes hard-coded standard context menu commands like insert, display, edit, (un)mark and delete, the availability of which in the context menu is defined via customizing parameters and via individual context menu commands which can be created for individual data areas via customizing.

Standard Context Menu

Context Menu Command: Insert

Information

• Define the following parameters for the data area that you want to receive this function in the module data area assignment level:

  • Create = activated

  • Output = deactivated

    • As a result, the Insert context menu entry is created for the corresponding data area. If the parameters have other values, no entry will be generated.

• The context menu is composed of the Insert text constant and the data table name of the data area. Here, it is decisive which table the DDI stems from. You can modify this text by making an entry in the Context menu text data field.

Example

• The DDI of a data area stems from DT461 Project.

• The context menu for the corresponding area would be: Insert → Project.

Note

• If you do not only want to insert but also create in this data area, you have to activate Create in addition.

Context Menu Command: Display

Note

• The Display via right-click function is available for all data areas, unless the Never show parameter is activated.

Context Menu Command: Delete

• The Delete function is deactivated in the context menu by default.

• If the command is to be active in the context menu, activate the Delete checkbox for the corresponding data area. Here you have to make sure that the Delete module parameter under Other Module Parameters is activated as well (it is active by default when you create new modules).

Individual Context Menu

Information

• For each data area you can customize individual context menu commands with the help of which different actions like, e.g., opening modules, macros, etc. can be started.

Button for the context menu

Information

• If the ContextMenuButtonActive parameter in the Client Skin Parameters is activated, the context menu can also be opened via the

  

  icon instead of right-clicking.

• By default, the button is only displayed in modules with tabular view. Via customizing you can also have the button displayed in modules with alternative layout.

• By default, the icon is displayed on the first field of the record.

• If necessary, the icon can be configured via the data field configuration of a data field:

{
   "ContextMenuButton": {
      "Active": "true",
      "Symbol": "",
      "DefaultColor": "",
      "SpecialColor": "",
      "Width": "",
      "HorizontalAlignment": "",
      "VerticalAlignment": "" 
   }
}

Notes

• The client searches the data fields of a data area for settings for the context menu button: The first settings found are used and the remaining data fields are not checked.

• In the Client Skin Parameters, color and symbol of the button can also be adjusted globally.