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Menu
Last modified: August 20, 2024
Introduction
A menu document defines a navigation menu that can be used by a menu widget. Typically the main menus for your application are defined in device types, while you use menu documents for auxiliary menus, for example, a side bar.
A menu consists of a list of menu items, which optionally contain sub-items. Depending on the widget a number of levels are allowed.
If security is enabled, the menu will only show items that the user has access to.
Menu Item
Menus are composed of menu items. Menu items can contain a number of sub-items. Menu bars can go two levels deep, the navigation tree – three levels, and the simple menu bar cannot have any sub-items.
Menu Item Properties
A menu item or a sub-item has the following general properties:
- Caption – The caption is the text that will appear in the menu widget. Caption is a translatable text. (For more information, see Language Menu.)
- Icon – You can select a glyphicon (a character in a special font that stays sharp while scaling) or an image that will appear next to or above the caption in the menu widget.
- Alternative text - You can specify alternative text if a caption is not provided. This will allow screen readers to announce a description for an icon.
- On click – Action to be performed when the item is clicked. A menu item that has sub-items cannot have an on click event.
To open a page with a data view on it from a menu item, set a microflow that first retrieves an object for the data view and then opens the page as a target.