Define action menus for a touch-enhanced form

Define action menus on a touch-enhanced Phone or Tablet form to display a list of options.

For example, for a row-selected event on a data table, select an action menu that displays a list of options such as Edit, Delete, or Cancel.

Selecting Edit redirects you to a page with all the row details. You can make changes if needed.
Selecting Delete removes the selected row and closes the action menu.
Selecting Cancel closes the action menu.

Open a touch-enhanced Phone or Tablet form.
In the properties panel of the form, select the Initialization and events tab.
Select for Action menus.

The New action menu dialog box is displayed.
Enter a Name for the menu.
To allow the menu to close when you tap outside of the menu, select Hide on tap. (Default: Clear)
Specify the Menu item height. (Default: 25 pixels; Maximum: 100 pixels)

To configure the menu items, select  for Menu items and do the following:

Use the following table as a guide to select a Style from the list:

To associate a confirmation message with the menu item, select Confirmation message, and select the form control or form/global variable to associate or select  to enter the text.

At runtime, a confirmation text appears when the button is clicked. You can choose to perform the action associated with the button or decline.
To select the actions to add to the menu items group, select Add for Actions.

The Add form action dialog box is displayed.
Select the actions to add.

To add all actions, select Add all. To remove a selected action, select  for the action. To remove all selected actions, select Remove all.
Select Done.

The selected actions appear in the Actions box under Menu items.

Use  to change the order of actions.
Select Add.

The item is listed under Menu items in the New action menu dialog box.