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Dynamic menu items
A sample demonstrating how to add menu items. 
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Alexis Mercier


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Hi Folks,

I see that "Support for dynamic menu items" was added in the release version. Do you have a code sample that could help me with adding menu items? Thank you in advance.
Posted 23 Jan, 2012 06:19:01 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hi Alexis,

Please check the code sample included in the manual, the section is "Creating Ribbon Controls Dynamically".


Andrei Smolin
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Posted 23 Jan, 2012 06:26:06 Top
Alexis Mercier


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Hi Andrei,

Thanks but your manual gives a client-side JavaScript code. Can I do the same in C#, on a server side? We have a list of 3-6 items that are managed by admin only, all the users should have the same list in a split button.
Posted 24 Jan, 2012 03:26:36 Top
Dmitry Kostochko


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Hi Alexis,

Of course, you can add your controls at run-time with server-side code. You need to handle the OnLoad event, create your 3-6 controls/buttons and add them to the ADXSPRibbonMenuSection.Controls collection. Please see the code below: 

private void EmptyListRibbon2_OnLoad(object sender, System.Web.UI.Page page)
{
    // clear the Controls collection
    adxspRibbonMenuSection2.Controls.Clear();

    // create a new button
    ADXSPRibbonButton btn1 = new ADXSPRibbonButton(this.components);
    // set properties
    btn1.Id = "my_id_1";
    btn1.JSVarName = "btn1";
    btn1.Caption = "Caption 1";
    btn1.Ribbons = adxspRibbonMenuSection2.Ribbons;
    // add the button to the Controls collection
    adxspRibbonMenuSection2.Controls.Add(btn1);

    ADXSPRibbonButton btn2 = new ADXSPRibbonButton(this.components);
    btn2.Id = "my_id_2";
    btn2.JSVarName = "btn2";
    btn2.Caption = "Caption 2";
    btn2.Ribbons = adxspRibbonMenuSection2.Ribbons;
    adxspRibbonMenuSection2.Controls.Add(btn2);

    ADXSPRibbonButton btn3 = new ADXSPRibbonButton(this.components);
    btn3.Id = "my_id_3";
    btn3.JSVarName = "btn3";
    btn3.Caption = "Caption 3";
    btn3.Ribbons = adxspRibbonMenuSection2.Ribbons;
    adxspRibbonMenuSection2.Controls.Add(btn3);
}


Please make sure the PopulateDynamically property of your split button is set to false. If it is true, you need to handle the OnMenuCreate client-side event and add your controls in this event handler as described in our documentation that Andrei referred to.
Posted 24 Jan, 2012 05:54:03 Top