Andrew, In 8.1, you'll need to add the menu to the Floor field in the form AST:Attributes. After you add it there, open up the AST:ComputerSystem form. If you have already followed the steps you listed below for creating the Overlay on AST:ComputerSystem, you should see the menu attached to the Floor field. However, in the Attributes Properties, it'll still be grayed out as those Attributes can only be modified in the form supplying the field to the join (AST:Attributes).
If you haven't yet created an Overlay of AST:ComputerSystem and added the Floor field to the View Overlay, you won't notice any change at all before you do that. Hope this helps. Tom Worth -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Hicox Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why can't I add a menu to this field? On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:22:27 -0700, LJ LongWing <[email protected]> wrote: >Andrew, >In addition to adding an overlay on the Form, you also need to overlay >the field, and potentially the view as well. Indeed. I have done this ... as far as I can tell I have done it properly: 1) add overlay to form 2) create view overlay 3) add 'Page Holder' to view overlay 4) create overlay on 'Page Holder' 5) add 'Floor' field to view overlay 6) create overlay on 'Floor' field 7) save the form 8) close the form 9) re-open the form after performing the above, many of the display properties for the 'Floor' field are unlocked (I can for instance change the display mode, label, etc). However, I CANNOT add a menu ... the 'Menu Name' property remains greyed out. > >Regarding why you can't attach via workflow....you can only 'change' >the menu attached to a field via workflow, you can never add a >menu...so if the form doesn't have a menu attached in the first place, you >can't add one. UGH! I'm stuck :-/ thanks though, -Andy > > >On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Andrew Hicox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ** Hi everyone, >> >> I have what will probably turn out to be a stupid question, but I'll >> ask anyhow because frankly I'm stumped. >> >> Tried this on 7.6.04 sp3 and 8.1 sp2 ... So I suspect BMC must be >> doing this on purpose... But this SHOULD be a relatively benign >> customization (I think). >> >> I want to add a drop down menu to field 260000004 ('Floor') on >> AST:ComputerSystem. I have created an overlay on the view/field etc >> but the 'Menu Name' property remains greyed out. >> >> So I thought "ok, I'll just attach it with an active link" ... Well ... >> When I set up a change field action against that field dev-studio >> removes the menu option! >> >> What am I missing y'all? >> >> Andy >> >> >> _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ > >_______________________________________________________________________ >________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org >"Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
