Edit entity menu

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This element adds an entity menu to a screen. Entity menus contain items that allow you to edit an entity, create a new entity, merge the entity with others.

Configuration

Setting Description
label UI label
entity Entity
entityMenu Entity
width Width

Entities:

  • customer / person
  • company / contact
  • ticket

These must contain corresponding values for the default configuration of the menu to be added to a screen.

Example

entity = customer
entityMenu = customer

Functions

setFieldValue(String action, Map values)

You can add to the default configuration or create an entirely new menu by setting field values.

To create a new menu, exclude the simple values from the configuration.

Action Map keys Description
addMenu label
iconUrl
url
target
appendId (true/false)
addAnchor label
iconUrl
url
target
appendId (true/false)
addModificator label
field
width
options.length
options.n.name
options.n.value
Note

appendId (v.8.4R07) will append the ID of the current entity to the URL for the anchor or menu.

Example maps

Map m;
m.insert("label", "VG");
m.insert("iconUrl", "");
m.insert("url", "http://www.vg.no");
m.insert("target", "");

Map m3;
m3.insert("options.length", "2");
m3.insert("label", "Modificator");
m3.insert("field", "2");
m3.insert("options.0.name", "Option1");
m3.insert("options.0.value", "");
m3.insert("options.1.name", "Option2");
m3.insert("options.1.value", "");