Main Actions

If there is one action that you expect the user to click on in typical work scenarios, define it as a prominent main action, such as the Create New Request action in the below image.

To define a main action, add the mainAction property to the action element:

<action id="createRequest" mainAction="true">

Menus for Secondary Actions

Do not display rarely used actions in the panel. Instead, hide them in a drop-down menu.

Define a top-level panel action to hold the menu, and nest actions for menu items inside the top-level action. The id property is required for the menu:

Custom HTML content can be used to replace a field input control. The field can still display its title.

<panel type="tree" ...>
 <!-- The menu button. -->
   <action type="menu" id="addMenu">
      <title>Add New</title>

  <!-- First menu item. -->
      <action id="addDv">
        <title>Division</title>
      </action>
  <!-- Second menu item. -->
      <action id="addDp">
         <title>Department</title>
      </action>
   </action>

For panels that have common data export actions - export to XLS, export to DOCX, data transfer – define all actions in a menu, and use the Archibus Export icon instead of the menu title:

<action type="menu" imageName="/schema/ab-core/graphics/icons/view/export.png" >
<!-- Specify no title -->
<title></title>
<action id="exportXLS">
<title>Export to XLS</title>
</action>
<action id="exportDOCX">
<title>Export to DOCX</title>
</action>
</action>

For panels that have customization/options actions, such as Select Fields, define actions in a menu, and use the Archibus gear icon instead of the menu title:

<action type="menu" imageName="/schema/ab-core/graphics/icons/view/gear.png" >
<!-- Specify no title -->
<title></title>
<action id="selectFields">
<title>Select Fields</title>
</action>
</action>

If you defined a menu in the view, you can dynamically add actions to it from Java Script, or clear all actions from the menu:

var addMenu = this.tree.actions.get('addMenu');
// clean all menu actions
addMenu.clear();
// add a menu action
addMenu.addAction('addEmployee', getMessage('addEmployee'),
this.onAddEmployee.createDelegate(this));

You can use the imageName property to specify icons for menus as well as for individual drop-down menu items.

Example

http://localhost:8080/archibus/schema/ab-products/solutions/assemblies/work-wizard\ab-ex-work-wizard.axvw