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automation script: context menu

Solved1.34K views10th August 2023Automation ContextMenu
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Jeroen Geldhof [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]5.04K 20th July 2023 0 Comments

In a connector there's a right-click context menu item for adding entries to a table.
Once clicked it opens an popup to fill in 3 parameters.
Is that possible through an automation script?
Probably it is possible with slnet, but I wonder if this has been done before.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 10th August 2023

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Ive Herreman [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]13.52K Posted 20th July 2023 4 Comments

Hi Jeroen,

Please find an example below.

public static void CreateClassMap(Engine engine, Element ThisElement, string ClassMapName)
{
int ContextMenuParameterId = 14199;

SetDataMinerInfoMessage DmInfoMessage = new SetDataMinerInfoMessage
{
DataMinerID = ThisElement.DmaId,
ElementID = ThisElement.ElementId,
Sa2 = new SA
{
Sa = new string[] {
Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
"1",
ClassMapName,
"ipv4"
}
},
Uia1 = new UIA
{
Uia = new uint[] {
(uint)ThisElement.DmaId,
(uint)ThisElement.ElementId,
(uint)ContextMenuParameterId
}
},
What = 287
};

Engine.SLNet.SendSingleResponseMessage(DmInfoMessage);
}

Ive Herreman [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Posted new comment 30th July 2024
Jeroen Geldhof [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 9th August 2023

For completeness, I also had to fill in the DataMinerID in the SetDataMinerInfoMessage

Simon Vandamme [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] commented 28th November 2023

Hi all, would like to add that while the answer from Ive is the correct answer to the question here and while it might be the quick win for any situation where the contextMenu code already pre-exists, a more proper solution is to make use of InterAppCalls. More details can be found in my answer to following Q&A: https://community.dataminer.services/question/triggering-context-menu-parameter-from-automation-script/

Gerwin van der Kamp [DevOps Enabler] commented 30th July 2024

What does the What = 287 mean? is that an constant to call the context menu?

Ive Herreman [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 30th July 2024

Hi Gerwin,

That’s indeed a constant value, it shouldn’t be changed.

If you want to get the full details on the 287, please take a look at this page:

https://docs.dataminer.services/develop/api/NotifyTypes/NT_ALL_TRAP_INFO.html

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Matthias Declerck [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]2.75K Posted 20th July 2023 0 Comments

Hi Jeroen,

It is hard to know what your use case is. It would be nice to explain that as well in your question.

I assume 2 things:
- In C# block of an automation script, there is a context-menu, which consists of a list with predefined code snippets.
- in a running Interactive Automation script, it is not possible  to have context-menus directly involved in the UI.
HOWEVER, if you use the UI block type 'Parameter', it will resolve the given parameter data into a parameter control, like the one you see in Data Display.
So this is the same one that you would describe/configure via the protocol.

In your use case, it could be possible if you will pass the table parameter in your script as UI block. Please check the documentation for more information.

Hope this will help you further.

Matthias Declerck [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Answered question 20th July 2023
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