Hi Guys (oeps, don't forget the women)

One simple question, but i am in the dark about this;

How can i modify a standard BaaN menu so i can put straight tekstlines in this.
I have a menu with 20 sessions and i want to create 3 chapters (printing, display, maintenance) without making submenus.
So it should look something like this.

Printing
1. Printing salesorders
2. Printing salesorders by deliverydate
Display
3. Display salesorders
4. Display something else

and so on.

I can put the tekst "Printing" in the menu but it just doesn't show.

Much thanks in advance.

Hey, I don't know about Baan4, but in Baan 5 it works very easily. Simply in the 'menu-fields' (ttadv3561m000) for each 'label-only' field, leave empty the fields 'menu field type' and 'sess/men/PR/Qr' fields, unclick the field 'descr. linked', and enter your label (print, display etc).

Compile, open a new Baan-shell and it works perfectly.

Let me know if this works for you.


Regards,

En.

Hi En.

To bad, but it doesn't work this way in BaanIV.
I can't leave the field 'sess/men/PR/Qr' empty. I can make it a Shell-program but i have to fill "selectcode' so it is handled as an normal program in the menu.

thanks for your efford!

Greetings, eddy

I'm not sure if this is your problem but you mentioned that your menu already has 20 sessions attached to it? From past experience, the maximum # of lines a menu can have is something like 20 or 21. This is lines, not sessions, so if there are any blank lines in your menu, they would also be counted.

You also have to do a convert to runtime, exit Baan and log back in.

Hope this helps.

croezen

You can select Session as the Menu Field Type and can tab through the ''sess/men/PR/Qr". Un-check the Link Descr. and enter your description in the Label field.

You need to enter a sequence no. though....

thanks Suresh,
It works fine, thanks.
But i see it as a work-a-round because the disadvantace of this solution is that it looks like a menu item a not like a header of a group as i intended.
But thanks anyway for your input!

It is indeed a pretty confusing work around.... It thought submenus is a better way to go about

A good compromise would be to open a menu and have the Print / Maintain / Display sub menus auto expand for you.

But.. I can not figure out how to do that. There should be a way, that's what the main menu tccom00000000 does right? But I can find no option that does that. It may only do that if it is your start menu, in that case.. is it a process variable being sent to the menu to do that?

Sorry, more questions, but if anyone knows how to auto expand that may help.