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Five's Menus

Last updated 14/03/2024

Five Menu Types​

The Menus view is for you to build and present a menu structure to help your users navigate your application and reach the required information or tasks. A menu item selected in your end-user application will make the referenced action available or open a set of nested menu items.

Five has three types of menus you can create. This a straight-forward menu item. All you need to do is create a menu item and the action that is referenced in the Action ID field will become available when the menu item is selected in the menu.


Menu Item
Figure 1 - Menu item

Parent-Menu​

A parent-menu will need to reference an action type of Form in the Action ID field and then it can become a parent for another menu item/s. A parent-menu will have a Down button placed in the form app bar of a selected record to drill down to the children menu items. When you drill down from a parent, you will only see the data relevent to the parent.


Parent-Menu
Figure 2 - Parent-menu
A sub-menu is nested under a menu item that makes no reference to an action. When the top-level menu item is selected in the menu, the menu will expand and display the nested sub-menu items beneath it.


Sub-Menu
Figure 3 - Sub-menu

What Can a Menu Item Reference?​

All actions in Five can be referenced in the Action ID field on the Menus form.


Action Field
Figure 4 - Action field

When the menu item is selected in your application this action will become available.


Selected Menu Item
Figure 5 - Selected menu item

Five's Actions​

The following is a list of Five's actions.
  • Forms
  • Data Views
  • Charts
  • Dashboards
  • Reports
  • Processes
  • Mail Merges

tip
Remember you do not have to reference an action if you are creating a sub-menu!