Forum Discussion

Former_Member's avatar
Former_Member
Accelerator III
8 years ago

How to create a new Part TOC menu item that does a custom search?

Hi, On the ACE 2017 Europe conference, a technique that utilized Federated Data to add a TOC menu item that did a custom search was showcased. In my case, I want to add a new TOC menu item, besides t...
CUI
angela's avatar
angela
Catalyst II
8 years ago
I think we are getting closer. onAdd and onUpdate - of course! With these two lock and unlock of existing Parts work fine. Save As is still optimizable. After Save As a new copy of the Part is generated, but users have to refresh the grid and the new Item is not shown in a separate window automatically. Most users will high-likely create 5-6 Part copies until they realize that they have to refresh the grid. Maybe this can be solved with some extra javascript logic. After Save As the new Part-copy cannot be unlocked in the grid -> Aras.Server.Core.ItemNotFoundException Unfortunately there is no onLock Method option that could be used here.