Setting Menu Properties

The menu is the area of the screen in the Operation Mode where the user can select actions to be performed, such as starting a process, running a query, creating or modifying an instance of a business object etc.

Some frames in a visual perspective (Top Bar, Left and Right) may contain a menu rather than tabs (you define this by specifying the “Displays” property of the frame). When you expand such a frame in the tree structure of the visual perepectives editor you see the entry for the menu. The following properties of the menu can be specified in the Selection Propertes window when you select the menu entry:

Specify the type of the widget that will implement the menu. The following options are available:

This menu supports unlimited levels of hierarchy and can be vertical (if placed in the left or right frames) or horizontal (if placed in the Top Bar frame):

However you cannot add arbitrary HTML or input controls to this menu type.

This menu type supports only two levels of hierarchy, but it can include HTML items and input controls. It also supports right alignment of items:

This menu type can only be used in the Top Bar frame.

This menu type also supports only two levels of hierarchy and can be used only in the left or right frames. Items of the second level pop down. You cannot use HTML or input controls for this menu:

This menu type supports unlimited levels of hierarchy and can be used only in the left or right frames

This menu type supports one level of hierarchy only. Can be useful for mobile phones menus.

You can display a header above the menu (vertical menus only). Provide HTML of the header here

You can display a footer underneath the menu (vertical menus only). Provide HTML of the footer here

Customise the appearance of the menu further by assigning a CSS style or class to the menu. See the “How to use CSS” section in the How To Guide for more details.