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    #16
    Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

    Another update: In testing, I found that if I clicked a 2nd time on the top branch to close it manually, and THEN clicked the Collapse All button, its code found that the menuObj.state.state was 'open' and so made that expanding menu open. SO.. I changed the onclick for the top branch to the following and it seems to be taking care of that issue. David, let me know if there is anything wrong with this logic, please?

    Revised code for the OnClick event of the top branch in an expanding menu:
    Code:
    var menuObj = {dialog.object}.getControl('EXPANDINGMENU1');
    if (menuObj) {
    	if(menuObj.state.state == 'open'){
    		menuObj.state.state='closed';
    	} else {
       		menuObj.state.state='open';
       	}
    }
    Carol King
    Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
    http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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      #17
      Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

      Hi Pete,

      On one particular UX, there is an expanding menu, a viewbox, and 2 container windows with a few input controls which get populated when items in the viewbox are selected.

      The table (approx 6000 records) is indexed on all the 6 fields (out of 28) that are needed and then filtered into a view which has only records that meet the criteria (circa 2000 records) for the expanding menu. Running a select statement on the view completes in 0.052 seconds. The UX renders in 3-4 seconds, the expanding menu renders in around 28 seconds in this particular case. I would say the UX with the simplest expanding menu renders in about 15 seconds

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        #18
        Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

        How many sibling and and how many child items in the 2000
        Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
        Albert Einstein, (attributed)
        US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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          #19
          Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

          Originally posted by kingcarol View Post
          Another update: In testing, I found that if I clicked a 2nd time on the top branch to close it manually, and THEN clicked the Collapse All button, its code found that the menuObj.state.state was 'open' and so made that expanding menu open. SO.. I changed the onclick for the top branch to the following and it seems to be taking care of that issue. David, let me know if there is anything wrong with this logic, please?

          Revised code for the OnClick event of the top branch in an expanding menu:
          Code:
          var menuObj = {dialog.object}.getControl('EXPANDINGMENU1');
          if (menuObj) {
          	if(menuObj.state.state == 'open'){
          		menuObj.state.state='closed';
          	} else {
             		menuObj.state.state='open';
             	}
          }
          Yes... that works really nice now. Overall, we must fully control the state of the menu... whether by a button... or by a menu event.
          I've updated my code. Thanks.

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            #20
            Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

            Hi Pete,

            There are 3 siblings, the largest child has 4 branches, then the largest grand child has has 60 branches, in turn the largest great grand child has 17 branches, then at the next level there are anything between 4-10 branches, with the same type of quantity for the final choice

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              #21
              Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

              Looks like a lot of JSON being nested there in the browser for things that may never be accessed i'd say the browser is struggling, i'd look at a LIST control for the siblings, then ViewBox for the rest using an ajax callback or maybe all Viewboxes, would be a lot smaller and faster. - just my thought on the issue.
              Cheers, Pete
              Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
              Albert Einstein, (attributed)
              US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                #22
                Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

                Thanks Pete for the different perspective I will look into it

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                  #23
                  Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

                  there is a built-in method. for example
                  p.s. you could find this by using Chrome developer tools, getting the 'obj' pointer and then examining what's inside the obj pointer



                  var obj = {dialog.object}.getControl('ExpandingMenu')
                  obj.collapseAll();

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                    #24
                    Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

                    Just an FYI... I began having trouble with session timeouts after moving to using expanding menus BECAUSE expanding menus do not trigger a callback to the server which would reset the timer. My users were complaining that IF they had been idle for almost the time we give them before warning, and then started expanding and collapsing menus to look for something, they would get timeout warning. This, of course, feels odd to the user since they are performing some action. SO, on click of the top level of each of my expanding menus, I have added a javascript action that calls back to the server, but basically does nothing. That has taken care of the issue and really helps with keeping their session alive.
                    Carol King
                    Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                    http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                      #25
                      Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

                      the behavior that you are seeing is the correct and desirable behavior - expanding a menu is done entirely client-side - so it does not extend a session. however, as you point out, there is a javascript event that you can hook when a menu branch is expanded and a dummy ajax callback can be made when the user does this

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                        #26
                        Re: Collapse All Expanding Menus On A UX?

                        Yes, that makes perfect sense to me, Selwyn, that it is client side. What's nice about doing a dummy callback for me is that it helps me see what clients are active because they will go to my Main Menu and use the expanding menus a lot to navigate. I can see that because each of my client's have separate databases in separate folders on our server, and the date on the folder changes every time there is a callback to it. I am actually opening and closing the connection in my 'dummy' callback just so it will let me see who is active.
                        Carol King
                        Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                        http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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