Teamsite Delete Drop Down Menu Items by Branch

JimVanguard

Does anyone know how to delete drop down menu items for a particular branch?
I'm already planning on using (ui_remove_menu_items) deletedcr="editor, author"" but how do I narrow this to a single branch if I put this in the iw.cfg file?

tvaughan

You can't do that (as of TS 5.5.2). If you have a custom menu item, it becomes available to all branches. iw.cfg only lets you hide it on a role basis.

One solution is to make a copy of available_templates.cfg, .ipl and .dtd. With a minimum amount of re-work you can come up with a pretty sweet ACL that either enables or disables certain behaviours of your custom menu items.

For example, I have a custom "File-->OpenDeploy" cgi that needs to display different deployment options based on the (username, role, branch) tuple. When my custom cgi runs, it uses those $ENV variables to query a copy of available_templates.ipl (I renamed it to "access.ipl") and return a list of available deployments.

You could use this to allow your custom menu item to behave one way in the branch you want and to display something like "sorry, that isn't a valid option" from all other branches. This isn't the ideal solution from a usability perspective, but it scales pretty well when you want to add-on functionality to other branches.

Tom