Menu
A nested Menu that reports the FULL path of the item that was chosen, not just its text.
Z2UI5_CL_SMP_APP_473
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UI5 1.71
The facts
- Repository
- abap2UI5/samples
- Class
Z2UI5_CL_SMP_APP_473- Source file
z2ui5_cl_smp_app_473.clas.abap↗- Category
- Menu
- Learning path
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- Minimum UI5
- 1.71 — the floor abap2UI5 holds its samples to
- In the playground
- runs in the browser, with no system and nothing installed
Keywords: menuitem, nested, submenu, textpath, controller, path
Controls it builds
- sap.m.HBox
- sap.m.Menu
- sap.m.MenuButton
- sap.m.MenuItem
- sap.m.MessageStrip
- sap.m.Page
- sap.m.Shell
- sap.ui.core.mvc.View
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The ABAP
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" @keywords menuitem nested submenu textpath controller path
" @summary A nested Menu that reports the FULL path of the item that was chosen, not just its text.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smp_app_473 DEFINITION PUBLIC.
PUBLIC SECTION.
INTERFACES z2ui5_if_app.
PROTECTED SECTION.
DATA client TYPE REF TO z2ui5_if_client.
METHODS view_display.
PRIVATE SECTION.
ENDCLASS.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smp_app_473 IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD z2ui5_if_app~main.
me->client = client.
IF client->check_on_navigated( ).
view_display( ).
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD view_display.
DATA(view) = z2ui5_cl_ui5_view_builder=>factory(
)->ele( n = `View` ns = `mvc`
)->a( n = `displayBlock` v = `true`
)->a( n = `height` v = `100%`
)->a( n = `xmlns` v = `sap.m`
)->a( n = `xmlns:mvc` v = `sap.ui.core.mvc`
)->a( n = `xmlns:core` v = `sap.ui.core` ).
DATA(page) = view->ele( `Shell`
)->ele( `Page`
)->a( n = `title` v = `abap2UI5 - Menu - Full Path of the Selected Item`
)->a( n = `showNavButton` b = client->check_app_prev_stack( )
)->a( n = `navButtonPress` v = client->_event_nav_app_leave( ) ).
page->tag( `MessageStrip`
)->a( n = `text` v = `The toast shows the full path of the selected menu item ` &&
`("Create New Site > Official Store"), not only its own text. ` &&
`$controller.textPath( ) walks the item's parent chain in the control tree ` &&
`and joins the texts - a walk no binding path can express. Everything happens ` &&
`on the client, the menu selection needs no roundtrip at all.`
)->a( n = `type` v = `Information`
)->a( n = `showIcon` b = abap_true
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiSmallMargin` ).
" the item's breadcrumb is resolved on the client and substituted into the
" toast template ({0}); an argument starting with $ is a client-side
" expression, everything else travels as a plain string
DATA(menu_selected) = client->follow_up_action(
val = z2ui5_if_client=>cs_event-control_global
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `MESSAGE_TOAST` )
( `show` )
( `Action triggered on item: {0}` )
( `$controller.textPath(${$parameters>/item})` ) ) ).
DATA(menu) = page->ele( `HBox`
)->a( n = `class` v = `sapUiSmallMargin`
)->ele( `MenuButton`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Actions`
)->ele( `Menu`
)->a( n = `itemSelected` v = menu_selected ).
menu->ele( `MenuItem`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Create New Site`
)->tag( `MenuItem`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Official Store`
)->tag( `MenuItem`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Franchise Store`
)->tag( `MenuItem`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Pop-up Store` ).
menu->ele( `MenuItem`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Manage Users`
)->tag( `MenuItem`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Add User`
)->tag( `MenuItem`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Remove User` ).
menu->tag( `MenuItem`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Log Out` ).
client->view_display( view->stringify( ) ).
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.
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- Menu — Menu Button with core:require
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