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Defining Screen Menu Items


Screen Menu Items are child objects of the Application Object Type. Screen Menu Items appear as hyperlinks on the Site Map. They allow users to click the hyperlink to go to the screen. Figure 70 shows Screen Menu Item definitions displayed on the Site Map.

Figure 70.  Site Map
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Views that filter data based on visibility rules, such as My Accounts, My Team's Accounts, and so on, do not appear on Site Map. Screen Menu Items appear on the Site Map in alphabetical order.

NOTE:  The site map is available from the application-level menu, by choosing View > Site Map.

This task is part of the process Process of Exposing Screens in the UI.

To associate screens with screen menu items

  1. From the Object Explorer, expand the Application object type.
  2. Select Screen Menu Item.
  3. Choose Edit > New Record and use the information in the following table to define the object properties:
Property
Description

Screen

The screen that will be accessed with the menu item.

Text

Text string that appears in the site map in the user interface. You can add HTML tags in this property to modify the text style that is rendered in the user interface. For screen menu items, this works when running applications in standard interactivity mode or high interactivity mode.

For an example of using HTML tags to modify text strings, see Changing Styles of Label Text.

NOTE:  Translatable text string values are entered using symbolic string references or by entering values in a string override field. To add HTML tags to modify text strings, you must either create a new symbolic string that includes the HTML tags or enter the values in the string-override field. To be able to create symbolic strings or string override fields, you must have the EnableToolsConstrain parameter of the tools.cfg file set to FALSE. For more information about working with symbolic strings, see Using Siebel Tools.

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