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Context Menu Demo / Demo Component

Description

A Context Menu is triggered by a mouse right+click and can show a list of Commands (to execute an action) and/or Options (to change the value of a field). The lib comes with a default list of custom commands (copy cell, export & grouping commands). Also note that the Commands list is following the same structure used in the Cell Menu, Header Menu & Grid Menu.

Default Usage

Technically, the Context Menu is enabled by default (copy, export) and so you don't have anything to do to enjoy it (you could disable it at any time). However, if you want to customize the content of the Context Menu, then continue reading. You can customize the menu with 2 different lists, Commands and/or Options, they can be used separately or at the same time.

with Commands

this.gridOptions = {
  enableFiltering: true,
  enableContextMenu: true, // enabled by default 
  contextMenu: {
    hideCloseButton: false,
    commandTitle: 'Commands', // optional, add title
    commandItems: [
      'divider',
      { divider: true, command: '', positionOrder: 60 },
      { 
        command: 'command1', title: 'Command 1', positionOrder: 61,
        // you can use the "action" callback and/or use "onCommand" callback from the grid options, they both have the same arguments
        action: (e, args) => {
          console.log(args.dataContext, args.column); // action callback.. do something
        }
      },
      { command: 'help', title: 'HELP', iconCssClass: 'fa fa-question-circle', positionOrder: 62 }
    ],
  }
};

with Options

That is when you want to define a list of Options (only 1 list) that the user can choose from and once is selected we would do something (for example change the value of a cell in the grid).

this.gridOptions = {
  contextMenu: {
    hideCloseButton: false,
    optionTitle: 'Change Priority', // optional, add title
    optionItems: [       
      { option: true, title: 'True', iconCssClass: 'fa fa-check-square-o' },
      { option: false, title: 'False', iconCssClass: 'fa fa-square-o' },
      { divider: true, command: '', positionOrder: 60 },
    ],
    // subscribe to Context Menu onOptionSelected event (or use the "action" callback on each option)
    onOptionSelected: (e, args) => {
      // change Priority
      const dataContext = args && args.dataContext;
      if (dataContext && dataContext.hasOwnProperty('priority')) {
        dataContext.priority = args.item.option;
        this.aureliaGrid.gridService.updateItem(dataContext);
      }
    },
  }
};

Action Callback Methods

So there are 2 ways to execute an action after a Command is clicked (or an Option is selected), you could do it via the action callback or via the onCommand callback. You might be wondering why 2 and what's the difference? Well the action would have to be defined on every single Command/Option while the onCommand (or onOptionSelected) are more of a global subscriber which triggers every time any Command/Option is clicked/selected, so for that you would typically need to use if/else or a switch/case... hmm ok but I still don't understand when would I use the onCommand? Let say you combine the Context Menu with the (Action) Cell Menu and some of the commands are the same, well in that case it might be better to use the onCommand and centralize your commands in that callback, while in most cases if you do only 1 thing with a command, then using the action might be better. Also, note that they could also both be used if you wish.

So if you decide to use the action callback, then your code would look like this

with action callback
contextMenu: {
  commandItems: [
    { command: 'command1', title: 'Command 1', action: (e, args) => console.log(args) }
    { command: 'command2', title: 'Command 2', action: (e, args) => console.log(args) }
    // ...
  ]
}
with onCommand callback
contextMenu: {
  commandItems: [
    { command: 'command1', title: 'Command 1' }
    { command: 'command2', title: 'Command 2' }
    // ...
  ],
  onCommand(e, args) => {
    const columnDef = args.columnDef;
    const command = args.command;
    const dataContext = args.dataContext;

    switch (command) {
      case 'command1': alert('Command 1'); break;
      case 'command2': alert('Command 2'); break;
      default: break;
    }
  }
}

Override Callback Methods

What if you want to dynamically disable or hide a Command/Option or even disable the entire menu in certain circumstances? For theses cases, you would use the override callback methods, the method must return a boolean. The list of override available are the following

  • menuUsabilityOverride returning false would make the Context Menu unavailable to the user
  • itemVisibilityOverride returning false would hide the item (command/option) from the list
  • itemUsabilityOverride return false would disabled the item (command/option) from the list
    • note there is also a disabled property that you could use, however it is defined at the beginning while the override is meant to be used with certain logic dynamically.

For example, say we want the Context Menu to only be available on the first 20 rows of the grid, we could use the override this way

contextMenu: {
  menuUsabilityOverride: (args) => {
    const dataContext = args && args.dataContext;
    return (dataContext.id < 21); // say we want to display the menu only from Task 0 to 20
  },

To give another example, with Options this time, we could say that we enable the n/a option only when the row is Completed. So we could do it this way

contextMenu: {
  optionItems: [
  {
    option: 0, title: 'n/a', textCssClass: 'italic',
    // only enable this option when the task is Not Completed
    itemUsabilityOverride: (args) => {
      const dataContext = args && args.dataContext;
      return !dataContext.completed;
    },
    { option: 1, iconCssClass: 'fa fa-star-o yellow', title: 'Low' },
    { option: 2, iconCssClass: 'fa fa-star-half-o orange', title: 'Medium' },
    { option: 3, iconCssClass: 'fa fa-star red', title: 'High' },
  ]
}

How to add Translations?

It works exactly like the rest of the library, when enableTranslate is set, all we have to do is to provide translations with the Key suffix, so for example without translations, we would use title and that would become titleKey with translations, easy. So for example, a list of Options could be defined as follow:

contextMenu: {
  commandTitleKey: 'COMMANDS', // optionally pass a title to show over the Options
  optionItems: [
  {
    { option: 1, titleKey: 'LOW', iconCssClass: 'fa fa-star-o yellow' },
    { option: 2, titleKey: 'MEDIUM', iconCssClass: 'fa fa-star-half-o orange' },
    { option: 3, titleKey: 'HIGH', iconCssClass: 'fa fa-star red' },
  ]
}

Show Menu only over Certain Columns

Say you want to show the Context Menu only when the user is over certain columns of the grid. For that you could use the commandShownOverColumnIds array (or optionShownOverColumnIds), by default these arrays empty and when that is the case then the menu will show over all columns. So if we want to have the Context Menu available only over the first 2 columns, we would have an array of the 2 column ids. For example, the following would show the Context Menu everywhere except the last 2 columns (priority, action) since they are not part of the array

cellMenu: {
  commandShownOverColumnIds: ['title', 'percentComplete', 'start', 'finish', 'completed'. /* 'priority', 'action' */],
}

Default Internal Commands

By defaults, the Context Menu will come with a few different preset Commands (copy, export). The Copy is straightforward, it allows you to copy the cell value, on the other hand the export command(s) is dependent on the flags you have enabled in your Grid Options. For example if you have only enableExport then you will get the Export to CSV and you might get as well Export Tab-Delimited, again that depends on which Grid Options you have enabled.

Another set of possible Commands would be related to Grouping, so if you are using Grouping in your grid then you will get 3 extra Commands (clear grouping, collapse groups, expand groups).

All of these internal commands, you can choose to hide them and/or change their icons, the default global options are the following and you can change any of them.

contextMenu: {
    autoAdjustDrop: true,
    autoAlignSide: true,
    hideCloseButton: true,
    hideClearAllGrouping: false,
    hideCollapseAllGroups: false,
    hideCommandSection: false,
    hideCopyCellValueCommand: false,
    hideExpandAllGroups: false,
    hideExportCsvCommand: false,
    hideExportExcelCommand: false,
    hideExportTextDelimitedCommand: true,
    hideMenuOnScroll: true,
    hideOptionSection: false,
    iconCopyCellValueCommand: 'fa fa-clone',
    iconExportCsvCommand: 'fa fa-download',
    iconExportExcelCommand: 'fa fa-file-excel-o text-success',
    iconExportTextDelimitedCommand: 'fa fa-download',
    width: 200,
  },

How to Disable the Context Menu?

You can disable the Context Menu, by calling enableContextMenu: false from the Grid Options.

this.gridOptions = {
   enableContextMenu: false
};
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