Menu Eventing
Menu with Menu Eventing
Z2UI5_CL_SMPC_APP_228
Controls
sap.ui.unified
UI5 1.84
The facts
- Repository
- abap2UI5/samples-controls
- Class
Z2UI5_CL_SMPC_APP_228- Source file
z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_228.clas.abap↗- Library
- sap.ui.unified
- UI5 entity
sap.ui.unified.Menu- Demo kit sample
sap.ui.unified.sample.MenuMenuEventing- SAP's own sample
- running at sdk.openui5.org ↗
- Minimum UI5
- 1.84
- In the playground
- runs in the browser, with no system and nothing installed
Keywords: menu, sap.ui.unified, menumenueventing, horizontallayout, button, menuitem, menutextfielditem
Controls it builds
- sap.m.Button
- sap.ui.core.mvc.View
- sap.ui.layout.HorizontalLayout
- sap.ui.unified.Menu
- sap.ui.unified.MenuItem
- sap.ui.unified.MenuTextFieldItem
Read out of the builder chain by the abap2UI5 linter, not from the category this sample is filed under — which is what makes “which samples build one of these” a question the catalogue can answer at all.
Libraries
Run it here
The sample running, in this page — the app on its own, with no editor over it.
Switch to Playground with this code
Nothing is installed and nothing is sent anywhere: the ABAP is compiled to JavaScript in this browser and runs against abap2UI5 itself.
The ABAP
z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_228.clas.abap — 136 lines
Click a number to link to a line — shift-click for a range.
Read it on GitHub ↗
" @keywords menu sap.ui.unified menumenueventing horizontallayout button menuitem menutextfielditem
" @summary Menu with Menu Eventing
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_228 DEFINITION PUBLIC.
PUBLIC SECTION.
INTERFACES z2ui5_if_app.
PROTECTED SECTION.
DATA client TYPE REF TO z2ui5_if_client.
METHODS view_display.
METHODS on_event.
PRIVATE SECTION.
ENDCLASS.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_228 IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD z2ui5_if_app~main.
me->client = client.
IF client->check_on_navigated( ).
view_display( ).
ELSEIF client->check_on_event( ).
on_event( ).
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD on_event.
" handleMenuItemPress: a parent that only opens its submenu is skipped
IF client->get_event( ) = `ITEM_SELECT` AND client->get_event_arg( ) <> `SUB`.
client->message_toast_display( client->get_event_arg( 2 ) ).
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD view_display.
" the item branch of handleMenuItemPress. The message itself composes on the
" client (a MenuTextFieldItem reports its VALUE, everything else its text),
" but the SKIP cannot: the original returns before MessageToast.show for a
" parent that only opens its submenu, and a client action that composes an
" empty string still pops an empty toast - MessageToast.show('') has no
" early return. So the decision travels: the flag and the message are two
" event args and on_event toasts only when there is no submenu
DATA(item) = `${$parameters>/item}`.
DATA(has_submenu) = |{ item }.getSubmenu() ? 'SUB' : 'ITEM'|.
DATA(item_message) = |{ item }.getMetadata().getName() === 'sap.ui.unified.MenuTextFieldItem'| &&
| ? "'" + { item }.getValue() + "' entered"| &&
| : "'" + { item }.getText() + "' pressed"|.
DATA(view) = z2ui5_cl_ui5_view_builder=>factory( ).
view->ele( n = `View` ns = `mvc`
)->a( n = `xmlns` v = `sap.m`
)->a( n = `xmlns:mvc` v = `sap.ui.core.mvc`
)->a( n = `xmlns:l` v = `sap.ui.layout`
)->a( n = `xmlns:u` v = `sap.ui.unified`
)->a( n = `class` v = `viewPadding`
)->ele( n = `HorizontalLayout` ns = `l`
)->ele( `Button`
)->a( n = `id` v = `openMenu`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Open Menu`
)->a( n = `ariaHasPopup` v = `Menu`
" the sample opens the Menu anchored to the button via oMenu.open( kbd, button, ... );
" sap.ui.unified.Menu has no openBy of its own; the frontend's openBy
" falls back to open( false, anchor, 'begin top', 'begin bottom', anchor )
" for exactly this control (pr/unified-menu-open-anchored, 2026-07-27) -
" the "no-op today" this comment claimed until 2026-08-23 is long gone
)->a( n = `press` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_by_id
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `theMenu` ) ( `openBy` ) ( `$event.oSource.sId` ) ) )
)->ele( `dependents`
)->ele( n = `Menu` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `id` v = `theMenu`
" menu-level eventing: one handler for every item, composed on the frontend
" (1:1 with MessageToast.show("'" + item.getText() + "' pressed"))
" handleMenuItemPress branches on the runtime item: a parent that
" only opens its submenu is skipped, a MenuTextFieldItem reports its
" VALUE + ' entered', everything else its text + ' pressed'. All three
" fit in ONE expression arg - measured with
" scripts/probes/event-arg-expression-probe.mjs, a class-name ternary
" resolves - so the toast text is composed on the client 1:1
)->a( n = `itemSelect` v = client->_event( val = `ITEM_SELECT`
t_arg = VALUE #( ( has_submenu ) ( item_message ) ) )
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 1st Item`
)->a( n = `icon` v = `sap-icon://save`
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 2nd Item`
)->ele( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 3rd Item`
)->ele( n = `Menu` ns = `u`
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `1st Sub Item`
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `2nd Sub Item`
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `3rd Sub Item but inactive`
)->a( n = `enabled` v = `false`
)->end(
)->end(
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 4th Item`
)->a( n = `startsSection` v = `true`
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 5th Item`
)->tag( n = `MenuTextFieldItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `label` v = `Find`
)->a( n = `enabled` v = `true`
)->a( n = `startsSection` v = `true`
)->a( n = `icon` v = `sap-icon://filter`
)->end(
)->end(
)->end(
)->end( ).
client->view_display( view->stringify( ) ).
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.
More in sap.ui.unified
- calendar type — islamic Calendar with secondary gregorian type
- Currency in Table — Display Currencies in Table
- simple example — CalendarDateInterval with 14 days and single day selection
- Currency — Display Currencies with proper Alignment
- calendar - min., max., disabled and show/hide week numbers — Calendar with minimum date 2000-01-01 and maximum date 2050-12-31, some disabled days (in…
- Item Eventing — Menu with Item Eventing
- Calendar with navigatable legend — An example of adding navigatable legend to the calendar.
- Complex — File Uploader Example with Parameters
- Color Picker Popover — Example of ColorPicker in a popover using the thin wrapper control sap.ui.unified.ColorPi…
- multiple months — Calendar with more than one month
- Date deselection with shortcut for today — An example of recommended implementation of deselection logic when the calendar is in sin…
- Single Interval Selection — Calendar where the user can select an interval or entire week (either by selecting its we…
On this page