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The configuration needs to be done in the following places:
- On the specific menu item on a given page
- On the data send out from the backend
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<page id="Receive" type="OrderList" icon="mainmenureceive">
<title defaultValue="@{PageReceiveOrderListTitle}" />
<orderListConfiguration automaticOrderSelectionAfterFilter="true">
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<list listId="Orders">
<!-- The enabled attribute is disregarded when the dataMember is setup. -->
<open enabled="true" *dataMember="showOpenMenu"*/>
</list>
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</orderListConfiguration>
<actions>
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<open id="ItemCrossReference" dataMember="showCustomMenuItem"/>
<open id="CreateOrder" dataMember="showCreateOrder" *enabled="OnEmptyListUtilizingDataMember"*/> // Setting the enabled state of the menu item, will display it when no data is present.
< </actions>
<!-- IMPORTANT: If the dataMember property is set on any menu item, defining number of promoted items here will be ignored. -->
<menu numberOfPromotedItems="1"/>
</page> |
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An important note is that if a menu item references a specific data member, and that data member is not present in the data, then the menu item will not be visible.
So the way to control the visibility of a data member-controlled menu item is to have the reference data member included in the data or not.
From version 1.8.1, by setting *enabled="OnEmptyListUtilizingDataMember"* on the menu item it self will enable the data driven menu item when no data is loaded.
A data element could look as follows.
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