Adding a custom entry to web UI 'functions' menu that binds the objid of the parent as a parameter t

Without using the SDK to customize oscript I would like to insert an item to be displayed on every function menu that references an external URL, with the ID of the node that is presenting the that function menu. As a stretch goal I would like to limit the display to only certain object types, but that is entirely optional.

For example: I would like to insert an item titled 'Misclassified?' that links to http://someotherserver.com/misclassified?objid=12345 " where 12345 is the ID of the object upon whom the Function menu icon was clicked.

Is this possible using the available configuration options, or would I need to override a weblingo template? If a template must be overridden is it possible to divine the presence of the neccessary variable in memory in the parser without using the SDK, or would it be better to insert a placeholder and use on the fly rewriting at the load balancer to dynamically inject the neccessary additional code?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Out of the Box OT allows you to put custom columns,the custom columns can take a URL which will execute for each ObjID similar to how one would create a hyperlink in excel..Weblingo Overrides are typically done using some techniques like CustomizationsRT, htmlmap , otoverride are some of the tools OT consultants use and I have used as well. There is now talk at OT for a REST API implementation over livelink but I think it is still a little far off but even in 10 or 10.5 above certain versions you can make JSON calls to have livelink output sent.I don't do much with JQuery but it can work miracles as well.

What you are trying many times can be made part of the browser,at one point use simple javascript I was able to add a IE context menu to run a live report as I said it would not be left click on the function button but cerinly it can be made to understand a livelink link.

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Adding a custom entry to web UI 'functions' menu that binds the objid of the parent as a parameter to a URL target? Posted bykris.boutilier@scrd.ca (Boutilier, Kris)On 05/22/2015 03:31 PM

Without using the SDK to customize oscript I would like to insert an item to be displayed on every function menu that references an external URL, with the ID of the node that is presenting the that function menu. As a stretch goal I would like to limit the display to only certain object types, but that is entirely optional.For example: I would like to insert an item titled 'Misclassified?' that links to http://someotherserver.com/misclassified?objid=12345 " where 12345 is the ID of the object upon whom the Function menu icon was clicked.Is this possible using the available configuration options, or would I need to override a weblingo template? If a template must be overridden is it possible to divine the presence of the neccessary variable in memory in the parser without using the SDK, or would it be better to insert a placeholder and use on the fly rewriting at the load balancer to dynamically inject the neccessary additional code?Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Jordan_Gladstone

If you have the ActiveView module you can create a Function Menu Override. This uses XML schema to affect a nodes function menu, and can be applied globally or to specific containers with cascade options. You can limit the subtypes it affects in the XML itself. For example, the following would add a ‘Misclassified?’ option at the top of the function menu for Documents and Folders, and pass the ID of the object into the URL:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

</commands>

</override>

</overrides>

Result:

Cheers,

Jordan

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Adding a custom entry to web UI 'functions' menu that binds the objid of the parent as a parameter to a URL target?

Posted bykris.boutilier@scrd.ca (Boutilier, Kris) On 05/22/2015 03:31 PM

For example: I would like to insert an item titled 'Misclassified?' that links tohttp://someotherserver.com/misclassified?objid=12345 " where 12345 is the ID of the object upon whom the Function menu icon was clicked.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Kris Boutilier

Thank you both for your input.

This is a basic out-of-the-box installation, without ActiveView. Clearly that would be the cleanest approach to fully customizing the UI but, in this case, I'm just looking for a simple addition.

Adding a custom column and populating it with a URL value specific to each node would function too, but would require some maintenance overhead. I'm not clear how (or if) there is any message queuing or event callback mechanism available, which implies needing to periodically enumerate all the nodes for qualifying updates and injecting their values back into the column (easy enough to do with CWS). Covering DTreeCore with triggers would work too for detecting precipitating events, but is clearly an unsuportable option.

Answer Modules has come up as an option too and we may look in that direction once we have exhausted all the possible 'out of the box' avenues.

It's a relatively trivial override, intended to improve the quality of the user experience, so it seems a shame to have to justy throwing more money at the project when we've only just unboxed the core product.

Christopher_Meyer

Hi Kris: Your options are limited if you don't wish to use the SDK. I respect you have your reasons, but such requirements are what the SDK is for. I don't exaggerate when I say this feature would probably take no more than an hour to implement (including the requirement to limit to certain object types), and will give you a solution that integrates cleanly into the system without overriding any core functionality. That said, the AnswerModules solution looks like a nice alternative.

Good luck and I hope you find a solution that works for you.