Open in Fly-out

This is configurable on both the Side Bar and Command Bar menu types.

Till now we have seen several menu buttons that trigger actions on click. However, another important benefit of Menus is to navigate to specific pages upon click. In other words, the ability to configure both sidebar menus and table menus with items that open a specified page.

Using Open in Fly-out you can navigate to a specific page. There are two ways to configure a menu button to Open in Fly-out. These are creating a Link to Table menu button and create a Blank menu button and manually configuring the Open in Fly-out option.

The first way is by far the most common way of configuring this on-click action as it is the easiest. In most cases the side bar menus are used to navigate between tables. As such if you want to create link to a specific table follow the steps below:

From within Designer navigate to the menu you wish to edit
Click New Menu Item
Click Link to Table
Select the Table
Drag and drop the menu button to the desired position in the hierarchy
Save

You will notice that this new table will be added to the menu hierarchy and that the configuration is set to Open in Fly-out and the Page ID has already been filled. This menu button now works and if pressed will navigate to the desired table.

Sometimes you may want to manually enter the Open in Fly-out configuration. For example if you want to reference a Page ID that is not the default of a table, where it was created through the Designer Pages section. To do so follow the steps below:

From within Designer navigate to the menu you wish to edit
Click New Blank Item
Drag and drop the menu button to the desired position in the hierarchy
Select Open in Fly-out from the On-Click Action
Enter the Page ID (The Page ID is simply the Page title. See the Pages Manager section of - All About Pages in Designer to find out how to access a list of all page titles)
Save