customizeContextMenu(customizeFunction: Function)
[starting from version: 2.6]
This API call allows customizing the context menu. For example, you can create a context menu for a flat table or remove all context menu items for the classic view. Learn more in this guide: Customizing the context menu.
customizeContextMenu
can be defined in two ways:
flexmonster.customizeContextMenu(customizeFunction: Function)
.new Flexmonster({customizeContextMenu: customizeFunction, ...})
.The customizeFunction
function. It has the following signature: customizeFunction(items: ContextMenuItemObject[], data: CellDataObject | CellDataObject[] | ChartDataObject, viewType: String): ContextMenuItemObject[]
.
Data passed to the customizeFunction
:
Parameter/Type | Description |
---|---|
items ContextMenuItemObject[] |
Context menu items created by Flexmonster. |
data CellDataObject | CellDataObject[] | ChartDataObject |
Contains information about the right-clicked element. If a grid cell is right-clicked, the data is a CellDataObject containing information about the cell.If multiple cells are selected and then right-clicked, the data is an array of CellDataObjects.If a chart element is right-clicked, the data is a ChartDataObject containing information about the chart segment. |
viewType String |
View type that was right-clicked. Can have one of the four possible values:
|
The customizeFunction
must return items
, the array of new or changed context menu items. If items
is null
, the default items
will be used. If items
is []
, the context menu will be hidden.
Property/Type | Description |
---|---|
id String |
The ID of the menu item. |
label String |
The name of the menu item. |
handler Function |
The function that handles clicks on this item. |
submenu ContextMenuItemObject[] |
optional Contains submenu items. |
isSelected Boolean |
optional Specifies whether the menu item is selected. |
class String |
optional Adds a custom CSS class to the specified item. |
1) Add a "Switch to charts" option to the flat table context menu:
flexmonster.customizeContextMenu(function(items, data, viewType) { if (viewType == "flat") items.push({ label: "Switch to charts", handler: function() { flexmonster.showCharts(); } }); return items; });
Open the example on JSFiddle.
2) Remove "Aggregation" item from all the context menus:
flexmonster.customizeContextMenu(function(items, data, viewType) { items = items.filter(function (item){ return item.label !== "Aggregation" }) return items; });
Open the example on JSFiddle.
Customizing the context menu
customizeCell()
customizeChartElement()