Expressions in Menu item Names

Sergej

It worked to me only when I put it in a checked - "Use this caption" field.

Sergej

Is not HTML tags are allowed in captions?
I just wanted to make this <<Order.State>> bold and bigger font size.

Sergej

I used rule in Order:

If Order IS NEW OR Order.State WAS CHANGED Then
SystemSettings.Orders_New=COUNT Order WHERE (Order.State='New')

In menu name I used <<SystemSettings.Orders_New>>. All works.

BUT in order to see new value in menu name you have to refresh browser's page or login again.
If you dont do that you will not see new changed values in menu names.

Is there a way to force menu to be refreshed dynamically or by the rule?

tford

Somehow you would have to trigger DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE or DISPLAY LAYOUT. You can not do that, however, with rules that are run with new or changed BO .. they can not change the UI.

You could place either one of those actions at the end of a process which creates or edits a BO.

Sergej

Thanks Tom! DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE solves it.
But didnt understand what you mean by

"rules that are run with new or changed BO .. they can not change the UI"

Do you mean I cant use DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE in rule:
If BO.attr WAS CHANGED then
RefreshMenuAdmin

where RefreshMenuAdmin DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE Administrator

Why not?

Sergej

I think the reason is that in some cases you would get error

The server may have started a process that requires interaction with the user. This is disallowed in the current context. Please check your configuration to make sure there are no rules attached to an object that start a process requiring user interaction.

So can DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE action run as background scheduled process every N seconds?

tford

So can DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE action run as background scheduled process every N seconds?

Yes you can although you would not want to have any UI operations on this Visual Perspective or a user could be in the middle of an Edit and have that wiped out by the background scheduled DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE.

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