Calculations in Custom Menus

[Jim Lah]

Hi - I am new to Custom Menus and am trying to make mine context sensitive but having trouble with getting the required calculations for the menu item names to be up to date.

I have a simple global field (g_context) which defines the context I want shown in the menu. I have defined a menu item which uses that global field for the override title.

It works on first use - but does not seem to keep up to date as the field g_context changes.

I have tried to ensure records are correctly committed and that the window is refreshed and joins updated - but nothing seems to reliably change the menu item correctly.

Can anyone shed light on what I am missing.

Thanks in advance.

[Vaughan]

Custom menus only update when the mode is changed, the layout is changed, a menu set is installed; but not when fields and records are changed or when the window is refreshed

To make the menus update when records are changed, a script needs to be run that does one of the above things. This might be done with a script triggering plug-in, or through careful control of the user interface.

Careful design of the menus might be able to avoid the problem.

[Jim Lah]

That explains it. Thanks much.