Elvis 6 action plug-ins setting - menuAssignments – Home

The menuAssignments setting is one of the settings of an Action plug-in that can be configured in its configuration file. For more information, see Elvis 6 Action plug-ins - configuration settings.

Required Yes

Description

Controls from which menu(s) the plug-in is available, this can be a combination of the following:

The main button toolbar
The context menu of a file

Menu assignments are required in the action configuration, you will need to define at least one to make the plug-in available in the user interface.

Basic setting

<action>
    <menuAssignments>
                <menuAssignment>...</menuAssignment> 
        </menuAssignments>
</action>

Menu assignment - <menuAssignment/>

One or more menuAssignment tags can be defined, where each menuAssignment "id" can only be defined once, so it's not allowed to assign menu items to the application menu multiple times.

Parameters

Menu id, defines to which menu the plug-in will be added. Possible values:

assetContextMenu - adds a sub item to the plug-in menu in the asset context menu. Add this menu assignment when the plug-in requires an asset selection.
toolBar - adds a button in the application's main button toolbar.

Required.

order

The menu order, used to define the order of plug-in items (1, 2, 3, etc) as they appear in the menu. The actual order is a a result of all active plug-in order values combined.

Required.

Examples

Typical menu assignments for a plug-in that requires no selection

<menuAssignments>
    <menuAssignment id="toolBar" order="1"/>
<menuAssignments>

Typical menu assignments for a plug-in that requires an asset selection

<menuAssignments>
    <menuAssignment id="assetContextMenu" order="3"/>
    <menuAssignment id="toolBar" order="3"/>
<menuAssignments>

Document history

28 July 2020: Removed reference of the folderContextMenu option because it is not used by Elvis 6.

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