Overview
The menu tool lets you place a drop down menu onto a model information view or an html page.
Information View
The fields are:
Options
A formula field that defines the optons that can be selected from the menu. If the result has only a single column, then the values in that column will be used for both the displayed options in the drop down and for the selected value.
If the result has two or more columns, then the first column is used for the menu display and the second column of the corresponding selected row will be the selected value. In the example above, the first column of customertable is client names, while the second are charge rates in dollar/h. Thus selecting Bill results in the corresponding charge rate of 100 dollar/h.
Selected Value
The value associated with the current selection. This is the value returned by referencing the menu without a parameter.
Formula Parameters
Parameters that can be accessed in the form a.b where a is the tool name and b is the parameter name.
- selected - the value associated with the selected menu item. Same as no parameter.
- label - the label shown in the menu for the selected item.
- html - a html code representation of the tool.
- notes - the notes for the tool
- myname - the name of the tool