How to define mobile application menus

Usually for a mobile application running on a phone you would define two menus – the top toolbar and the slide-out menu (of course, both are optional). Defining the toolbar is simple – you just define a menu of the Toolbar type in the Top Bar frame of your visual perspective. Most likely you will place at least two buttons on this toolbar – the button that slides out the main menu and the button that implements the “Go back” functionality.

To define the “Back button” just define an operation of the “Go Back” type and add it to the toolbar. To define a button that slides out the main menu define this menu for the left or right frames first (the menu must be of the Plain List type). Then define the operation of the “Slide-In Left Frame or “Slide-In Right Frame” types and add this operation to your toolbar.

You will probably have some real estate left on the toolbar. You can use this real estate for context operations – for example, to display Previous/Next buttons to traverse a form or some other operations invoked from a form or a query. In order to do this you need to designate the “Top Application Menu” as location for your form or query operations (see the Adding/Editing Panel Operations section for more details). You can also use a dynamic toolbar at the bottom for such operations. The toolbar will only appear when the corresponding form or query is displayed.