I am trying to extend the Tools menu to allow users to export to csv from the search results page. I have copied menubar_component.xml to my custom directory and added the following line, copied from dm_sysobject_actions.xml The option appears in the Tools menu in the search results screen, but it is greyed out. How do I make it active? Should I be scoping this somehow for the search results page, or do I also need to extend an actions component? - Jane

Adding "export to csv" to search results menu

I am trying to extend the Tools menu to allow users to export to csv from the search results page.

I have copied menubar_component.xml to my custom directory and added the following line, copied from dm_sysobject_actions.xml

<actionmenuitem dynamic="genericnoselect" name="tools_exportcsv" nlsid="MSG_EXPORT_TO_CSV" action="exporttocsv" showifinvalid="true" showifdisabled="true"/>

The option appears in the Tools menu in the search results screen, but it is greyed out. How do I make it active? Should I be scoping this somehow for the search results page, or do I also need to extend an actions component?

- Jane

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tejrajs

in your custom component (which extends from search60_componen), did you modified JSP only or behavior class also.

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tejrajs

OTB Webtop does allow Export to CSV from search result screen. Is there any customization done for export to csv action ?

jklawrence

Yes, I see that option in our Test OOB environment, but not in Development, which is where I'm working. I wonder if I have a bad install of Webtop.

We do have customizations - moving the export to csv option to the top, adding and removing a fewing options, and modifying the nlsprop file.

I will reinstall OOB and try just a couple of modifications and see if that works.

- Jane

jklawrence

The problem appears to be with search60_component.xml, which we have also customized to point to a custom searchresultslist.jsp file. If I take that file from webcomponent/config/library/search/searchex and put it in the custom directory, EVEN WITH NO CHANGES, the export function in the search menu disappears. If I customize the original file directly, it works fine. Of course, that's not the proper way to do it.

Not sure if this is a bug or not?

tejrajs

in your custom component (which extends from search60_componen), did you modified JSP only or behavior class also.

jklawrence

No, there are no modifications to the behavior class. Also, as I said, just copying the .xml file from the webcomponent directory to custom with NO changes in OOB Webtop causes the issue.

tejrajs

this should not happen. can you please post your custom component (also you should be extending search from webtop layer and not directly from webcomponent)

jklawrence

Tejraj -

Your response gave me the clue I needed. I tried copying the webtop layer search60_component.xml into the custom directory of webtop and the export function was active.

Then I checked the behavior class of the custom component and it was referring to com.documentum.webcomponent.library.search.Search60.

So I changed the behavior class to com.documentum.webtop.webcomponent.search.Search60 and that solved the problem.

This was custom code that was written before I joined my company, and we just upgraded from 6.5 SP1 to 6.7 SP1. The code worked in 6.5 SP1.

Thanks so much for your help!

- Jane

tejrajs

You are welcome.

-Tejraj