Case study - Macro OnArgument and switch

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:16:18 +0000

Here is a small case study (on the demand on our R&D) :

One of our partners was wondering what was conditioning the display on the mass Update button :

macros/MacroGridtool.txt - line 49 (of build R6100)

<%OnArgument(ArgValue='$_context$', condition='case', D=' ', S=' ', else='%%Macro("CmdGridMenuItemMassUpdate")')%>

When OnArgument takes the value 'case', a switch is performed. So in our case, if the Argument '$_context$ takes the value 'D' or 'S', the value ' ' will be returned. Otherwise we return the macro CmdGridMenuItemMassUpdate.

we can see line 8 that $_context$ is declared as $_context$=$context$ :

GridCommandsBasic {[<%Macros('CmdGridNavigate;CmdGridMenu;CmdGridRemoveFilterGroup;CmdGridTextSearch;CmdGridScriptsTemp', $_context$=$context$)%>]}

we can perform a search in the Efficy folder with $context$='D' (Dialog) and $context$='S' (Search) to see in which places the Mass Update will not be displayed.And we can see that 4 dialog pages and the Search page are concerned.

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Efficy2014Juin\efficy\pages\dialog\InstantDoc.htm:
   42                       <ul id="cmd-grid-menu" class="button-group toolbar small grid" data-channel="entitylist/tools">
   43                           <%Macro('CmdFieldDetail')%>
   44:                          <%Delay(1)%>Macro('GridCommandsBasic', $context$='D')%>
   45                       </ul>
   46                   </div>

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Efficy2014Juin\efficy\pages\dialog\Query.htm:
   33                       <ul id="cmd-grid-menu" class="button-group toolbar small grid" data-channel="entitylist/tools">
   34                           <%Macro('CmdFieldDetail')%>
   35:                          <%Delay(1)%>Macro('GridCommandsBasic', $context$='D')%>
   36                       </ul>
   37                   </div>

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Efficy2014Juin\efficy\pages\dialog\QueryResult.htm:
   36                       <ul id="cmd-grid-menu" class="button-group toolbar small grid" data-channel="entitylist/tools">
   37                           <%Macro('CmdFieldDetail')%>
   38:                          <%Delay(1)%>Macro('GridCommandsBasic', $context$='D')%>
   39                       </ul>
   40                   </div>

 C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Efficy2014Juin\efficy\pages\dialog\Template.htm:
   31                       <ul id="cmd-grid-menu" class="button-group toolbar small grid" data-channel="entitylist/tools">
   32                           <%Macro('CmdFieldDetail')%>
   33:                          <%Delay(1)%>Macro('GridCommandsBasic', $context$='D')%>
   34                       </ul>
   35                   </div>

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Efficy2014Juin\efficy\pages\search\SearchResult.htm:
   13               <ul class="button-group toolbar small grid" data-channel="entitylist/tools">
   14                   <%OnArgument('METHOD', condition='case',
   15:                      SEARCHFILE=`<%OnDependency('DTSEARCH', then='<%Delay(1)%>Macro('GridCommandsBasic', $context$='S')%>', else=' ', nolicense=' ')%>`,
   16:                      SEARCHFILENAME=`<%Delay(1)%>Macro('GridCommandsBasic', $context$='S')%>`,
   17                       else=`<%Delay(1)%>Macro('GridCommandsFull')%>`
   18                   )%>

I hope that it will help.

Geoffrey

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