Builder- display customized folder

Hiep_Tran

I have a requirement to create a custom display that in most respects is the same as a livelink folder but with some custom columns and some other features.

The custom display would be activated from the function menu of the original folder and would call up the new display.

I'm not sure how to go about that in Builder and would appreciate some help.  It seems that I need to subclass from Folder somehow, register it in the function menu, and then have the code to display it in the fashion I neeed.

 

Appu_Nair

 

The custom display would be activated from the function menu of the original folder and would call up the new display.

 

Appu -Are you saying that you do not know how to use the wennodecmd and wennodeaction objects pair to show  in an object's function menu.What kind of builder experience do you have.Would it help posting steps or would you like to see a shrinkwrapped module?If you had taken any builder class it would have been taught and it is one of the easiest things you can do.I assume you know how to create your own module.

I'm not sure how to go about that in Builder and would appreciate some help.  It seems that I need to subclass from Folder somehow, register it in the function menu, and then have the code to display it in the fashion I neeed.

Appu-It looks to me that you want to create a new look and feel to the view that currently livelink produces.Orphanning or subclassing the folder object is done in business cases where you want all folders in that particualar livelink to behave differently.If there is really no functionality change all you would need is a mapping utility like customizations_RT which basically maps the weblingo that livelink is defaulted with to use a different file in your ospace.This technique allows you to safely function when patches are applied.While I say this I have no idea how one would do this.

Also your idea of getting to it sounds a little construed to me.You ask a person to click on a new command on the folder obejcet to show the same folder in a different look and feel.I would have thought some way like the three different views livelink offers on entry like the detail,large & small icon views that livelink ships with,you could probably figure out the code on that and say a ne 'VDR View'.