Expressions in Menu item Names

gust

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

Not at the moment.

gust

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

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

Sergej

Has it been squized in last version?

tford

You can always review the changes in each build here:

http://www.awareim.com/changelog

Sergej

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

nlarson

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

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

nlarson

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

aware_support

Expressions in menu items names have been implemented in build 1451

Sergej

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

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

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

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

nlarson

minor wishlist items related to this topic Have separate captions for the Tab Name and Title Bar. I tired to use the expression below: It looked great n the form title, but my tab was 400px wide, lol :oops:

<<Metrics.Metric>> - <<Metrics.Owner>> - <<Metrics.Department>>

Sergej

Do you mean expressions work in form titles also? If so it is great! 🙂 Will try it.

nlarson

yep they sure do!

Sergej

In Order form caption field I wrote <<Order.State>> but it doesnt work. What am I doing wrong?

nlarson

Hum, that's what I'm doing an it's working for me. Did you put it in the section or main? Each have their own caption. Also, it might only work when the item is opened in a new tab but I am not sure on that.