Replacement needed for Functions menu

Philip Forshaw

HiI am currently stripping down LL971's front end to allow simple access for Blackberrys (e.g, file open, workflow step processing ).Judging by Blackberry's HTML and Javascript reference documents, version 4.6 supports html and javascript to a much higher degree than 4.5 and below. Unfortunately we have a significant number of blackberrys with 4.5 and below installed - I am finding out if they can go to 4.6 but dont hold out much hope based on googling it.Livelink terms the Functions menu is the biggest headache for me, it works in 4.6 but not 4.5.So, has anyone advice on getting hold of / developing replacement function menus? I've already successfully replaced the Global menus but the Functions menu is much messier.Thanks in advance,Phil Forshaw

Lee_Butler

Hi Phil,This is something we have solved recently ? like you the driver was the Blackberries inability to support JavaScript consistently across different versions.In short we have provided a way to return the functions menu, add items menu, personal, enterprise and tools menus as structured data which can be used in 2 ways:1) Conversion to JSON to allow you to build completely custom menus ? style, position, new commands, colors, ordering ? you can do the lot as you?re just iterate though a JSON representation of the standard commands and change them to whatever you want. What?s cool is you can have different options in different hierarchies of the same instance.2) As a data source to WebReports/ActiveView. This allows you to access each nodes function menu through it?s own URL. This is really cool on the Blackberry/iPhone as it means you can just browse to the function menu as a page in itself ? which solves the JavaScript problem.Feel free to email me if you want to talk about it in more detail.Thanks,Lee.