Expressions in Menu item Names

gust · Post by **gust** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:56 pm

Is it possible to use expressions in Menu item Names or next to them?

Ex, Menu Item "Waiting For Approval - 7"
7 is the number of items in that query <<COUNT BO..>>

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:20 pm

Not at the moment.

gust · Post by **gust** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:08 pm

Is that in your nearest plans?
It seems that it is not difficult to implement that but it would be very useful feature. In applications that uses such queries as received emails (read,unread), issues (closed,unclosed), orders states (we have 9) it is very useful to see in menu by a end user what amount of items there is in different queries to imagine whole picture of current work.

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:06 pm

Yes, it's easy. We'll try to squeeze it in one of the next releases.

Sergej · Post by **Sergej** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:47 pm

Has it been squized in last version?

tford · Post by **tford** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 6:56 pm

You can always review the changes in each build here:

http://www.awareim.com/changelog

Sergej · Post by **Sergej** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:38 pm

Will be very happy to see it in the next version.

nlarson · Post by **nlarson** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:26 pm

would this apply to captions too? Purely nice to have, but I did fine a nice use case for it that other nice.

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:50 pm

What captions? For many captions this is already supported, such as in captions of forms and queries

nlarson · Post by **nlarson** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:31 am

hum, let me try again - perhaps I fat fingered the input.

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:16 pm

Expressions in menu items names have been implemented in build 1451

Sergej · Post by **Sergej** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:01 pm

Thank you very much for this feature.
Could you give some instructions?
I wrote <<COUNT ALL BO>> in menu type Tree in Item properties in Name field. Also I tried ELEMENT_COUNT tag. But no numbers are displayed in menu item name.

aware_support · Post by **aware_support** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:14 pm

There are limitations to what can be placed in menu item names, form captions, query captions etc. The expressions used there can only use the context of the current object (for forms), context used in queries (for queries) plus LoggedInSystemUser and SystemSettings

For menu item names the only available context is LoggedInSystemUser and SystemSettings.

Any aggregate operations are not allowed. So if you want to use them you need to create an attribute in your user object or SystemSettings (depending on what the aggregate expression involbes) and add a rule to the object to calculate it and then use it in the menu

Sergej · Post by **Sergej** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:46 am

Thanks for clarifying.

So if I want to see number of items of query in menu name(that leads to that query), where better to create attribute in RegularUser BO or SystemSettings BO?

It must look like <<<SystemSettings.OrdersCompleted>> ?

tford · Post by **tford** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:38 pm

where better to create attribute in RegularUser BO or SystemSettings BO?

I put most calculations this in RegularUser (or whatever the User BO is) because SystemSettings are shared by all users.

It must look like <<<SystemSettings.OrdersCompleted>> ?

Yes