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Creating Applet Menus

You can configure the applet menus that come with Siebel applications and also create custom applet menus of your own using the Applet Method Menu Wizard.

The Applet Menu Wizard will allow you to modify an applet's method menu (applet level menus). Applet method menus are constructed by inheriting method menu items from the class to which the applet belongs and its super classes, and also by explicitly creating method menu items for the applet. Using the wizard, you can do the following:

• Suppress inherited method menu items
• Resurrect inherited method menu items
• Create new method menu items for an applet
• Delete existing method menu items of an applet

To use the Applet Method Menu Wizard

1. Choose File > New Object.

   The New Object dialog box appears.

2. Select the Applet Method Menu object.

   The Applet Method Menu dialog box appears.

3. In the Applet Method Menu dialog box, do the following:
   • Specify the applet whose method menu you wish to modify and also the project for the applet.

     Only projects locked by the user will appear in the drop-down list.

   • Click Next.
4. In the second Applet Method Menu dialog box, do one of the following:
   • Make a menu item visible in an applet by moving the item to the Selected Menu Items window.
   • Suppress a menu item by moving it out of the Selected Menu Items Window.
   • Click Finish or select Create New Menu Item. If you click Finish, all the changes that you have made are committed to the repository, and you are taken to the applet's object definition in the Object List Editor. If you select Create New Menu Item, the Finish button becomes the Next button.
5. If you are creating a new menu item, and you have checked the box labeled Create New Menu Item on the Applet Method Menu dialog box, then click Next.
6. Create a new method menu item definition by selecting an entry from the Select the Command to be executed by this Menu field.
7. From the Enter the text to be displayed for this Menu Item field, specify the text to display for this method menu item, and then click Next.

   The Applet Method Menu Item dialog box appears.

   You can examine the properties that you specified earlier. If any changes have to be made, you can click Back and return to the appropriate dialog box on which the correction is to be made.

8. If the properties are correct, you can click Create Menu Item to generate the method menu item object. After the item is generated, the Back button is deactivated and the Next button becomes enabled.
9. Click Next.

   The second Applet Method Menu dialog box appears and the method menu item you just created is displayed in the Selected Items list box.

10. Click Finish.

    The Applet Layout screen appears.