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Overview

Things to try

About

Licensing Information

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Overview

Dynamic Menu Subsyste was developed as an effort to simplify  administration and maintenance of multi-user corporation-wide applications. Authors faced the problem of maintaining large numbers of multi-level menus within a single application. Different users  had access to different options of menu . High security requirements  required intensive testing of the menu subsystem. Additional requirements included an ability to connect new elements ( reports, etc.) during the business day without creation of a new release of software.

Dynamic Menu Subsystem is database equivalent of PowerBuilder menu resources. It  greatly simplifies maintenance of complex applications. It also can be used as a base for menu customization system.

With the CTI Dynamic Menu System product, you will receive a PowerBuilder library file and bitmap files which are used to build and manage the Dynamic Menu  Administrator.


Licensing Information

The Dynamic Menu Administration System is licensed per developer at an introductory price of $99.00.  This offer is good through November 31, 1994.

To order the Dynamic Menu Administration System, please call CTI at (718) 793-9074 or fax your order to (718) 793-7121.  The software and documentation can be sent to you via CompuServe or through direct mail.  You can also direct inquiries to CompuServe userid

74250,1550.

Fax order form is available in  order.wri  file.


About

Dynamic Menu Administration System

© Copyright 1994

Development Team of the Dynamic Menu project:

Coding and testing	-	Michael Polyak (CPD)

User interface design	-	Victor Rasputnis(CPD)

Concept  prototype	-	Anatole Tartakovsky(CPD)

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Copyright © 1994 Computer Technology, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Printed in the United States of America. PowerBuilder is the trademark of Powersoft Corporation.

Unless otherwise noted, all names of companies, products, street addresses, and persons contained herein or in any software or databases are part of a completely fictitious scenario or scenarios and are designed to solely document the use of a CTI product.


Quick Start with Dynamic Menu Administration Demo

Database Setup

This demo builds three new  tables in the current database. These tables are  needed to keep menu and user profile data. For the purposes of  this demo current PowerBuilder connection has to be Watcom  SQL and user has to have resource or DBA permissions in it.

Tip	In order to switch current connection to Watcom please go to the PowerBuilder database painter and connect to any Watcom database. Then run this demo again.

Create New Menu

This option provides your with capability to create prototype for a new menu. This menu has File, Window and Help trees with all prompts, bitmaps and attributes common for the most Windows applications. Please note that new menu does not have authorized users. Therefore you have to grant access to some menuitems for some users. User option in Menu Administrator Menu allows to grant( [image]) or revoke ( [image]) permissions individually for each menuitem. If privileges to access the whole menu has to be granted or revoked, please use Create/Delete Super User options of User menu.  In addition, you can drag them in from list of users or move them into the basket.

Select Menu

Select Option from Menu gets you in Menu Administrator Painter. You will be presented with the list of menus in the current Database Library. Select menu you want to edit and go into Administrator Painter.

Import Menu

Select Import from Menu. You will be presented with the list of menus in the current PowerBuilder Library. This option provides simple conversion from PowerBuilder Resource file to Dynamic Menu Database structure

Pick User

System provides means to test menu for particular user. In Pick User menu option you specify permanent testing profile being used in subsequent Runs.

Run Test

Quick way to check the changes you have  made.