It seems that when you have a reasonable number of promoted functions the ribbon bar of the expression builder gets a little screwed up. See image. v9.0.3.3
That is quite a few new categories that you have! This is a known issue with ribbon bar's resizing for when there are more items than space allows.
Did you know that you can create sub-menus by naming multiple functions to the same category with the same Alias? For example:
[Promote(PromotionTargets.ExpressionBuilder)]
[Category("Test Category")]
[Alias("Test a")]
[Description("Returns hello")]
public static string Testa()
{
return "hello";
}
[Description("Returns hello plus the value entered.")]
public static string Testa(string a)
return "hello"+ a;
This should help. You can also promote items into existing categories. To promote to existing categories, you must use the catagory name as appropriate:
Thanks Rob,
I have five categories from scripted objects with around 30 or so methods between them plus 4 web services, and of course by default these take a category each. I have tried changing the captions on the web services to 'group' them together but by doing so I seem to loose some of the published functions from the resulting drop-down :smileysad:
This is not a great problem for me as I make little use of the expression builder in practice but it may affect others and of course it doesn't look great.
