Navigation Pane

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You use the Navigation Pane SYSPRO Desktop function to navigate the SYSPRO interface using customized menus. These menus can include links to SYSPRO programs, SYSPRO customized reports, Net Express programs, SRS reports and other applications.

This program also includes functions to view a calendar and a list of recently accessed programs.

If you are allowed to design menus, then you can create your own personal menus using this program. If, however, you do not have access to the toolbar, you can still use menus that were created by the system administrator using the Design Menus SYSPRO Desktop function.

  • This program is accessible from the Ribbon bar:

    SYSPRO Ribbon bar > Home

Overview topic

SYSPRO Desktop

General topics

Customize and control application

Starting

You can restrict operator access to activities within a program (configured using the Operator Maintenance program).

Controls whether an operator can create or modify menus on the SYSPRO Desktop (including access to the Navigation Pane toolbar functions).

  • Any program that an operator cannot run from the main Program List is also restricted in the Navigation Pane.

    Similarly, any field that an operator is prevented from seeing in a program when run from the normal SYSPRO menu is also restricted here.

  • You cannot email the export file if you have not enabled the Fax/mail integration required operator option.

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Referencing

Field Description

This lets you create a new personal menu in the Navigation Pane.

Caption

Enter the title of your new menu here.

Menu style

Task panel

This menu style launches applications as well as navigates to other menus or opens flow graphs from within your menu.

List view

This menu style launches applications from within your menu. You can add categories to mimic folders that help you group your programs.
Icon id Indicates the id of the icon currently assigned to the menu (0 indicates no icon). Select the Change Icon function to assign an icon to the menu.

This loads the Export Menus window so that you can export menus for deployment to other operators in your organization. This is useful when deploying the same or similar menus to a number of operators in the organization.

This loads the Import Menus window so that you can retrieve menus that have been exported.

This pane retains a list of the last 20 programs you have used, with the most recent program listed first.

You can configure the number of items you want to list in the pane using the System-wide Personalization program (SYSPRO Ribbon bar > Administration). The last program run appears as the first entry in the list.

You can clear the list by right-clicking in the pane and selecting the Clear List option from the context menu displayed.

You can drag-and-drop programs from this pane onto the Favorites pane.

This displays as many months as will fit in the available space, starting with the current month.

You can personalize the calendar using the System-wide Personalization program (SYSPRO Ribbon bar > Administration).

Field Description

Properties

Program Details

This lets you view and maintain the details of the program this tile should launch.

If no program is linked to the tile (e.g. it is a menu tile, or you created a blank tile) then the Add New Shortcut Wizard program is launched.

Title

Indicate the title that should appear on this tile.

Tooltip

This lets you define a tooltip for the tile that will appear when an operator hovers the mouse pointer over the tile.

The tooltip can be text, or an image and can be added programmatically with VBScript (using the Tooltip variable).

Attach Picture

This lets you assign an image to the tile.

Remove Picture

This removes the image currently defined against the tile.

Action

(Navigation Pane only).

This lets you set each tile to open another menu (or category) within the Navigation Pane, or to open a flow graph.

If you define an action for a program tile (i.e. a tile already set to launch a program) then the tile performs both actions when clicked (i.e. the relevant menu, category or flow graph is displayed and the specified program launches).

Item Height

This lets you use a slider to set the height of this tile.

Auto Fit

This lets you automatically resize the tile to display all appearance settings correctly.

Macro

This opens the VBScript Editor program.

You cannot launch the program if you are in Design Mode for a role.

Appearance

Icon

This lets you assign an icon to be displayed alongside the tile.

Style

This lets you assign a preset style to the icon.

Color

This lets you define a color for the tile.

This option is not enabled if the No XAML theme is selected from the Style option.

Duplicate Appearance

This lets you apply the tile's appearance settings to all other tiles in the same category.

Duplicate Height

This lets you set all other tiles in the same category to the height of this tile.

Delete

This lets you delete the selected tile or category.

Undo Delete

This restores the deleted tile or category.

Refresh

 

Export/Import

Export Tile in an Email

This lets you send the tile as an attachment to your email client.

Save Tile As

This lets you save the file to a specific file location.

Export Menus

This lets you indicate the menus you want to export.

Import Tile

This lets you deploy a tile from a saved file.

Import Menus

This lets you deploy a menu from a saved file.
New

Program Tile

This lets you create a new tile within the current category and launches the Add New Shortcut Wizard program.

Menu Tile

(Navigation Pane only).

You will be prompted to define an action for this tile. It can navigate to another menu in the Navigation Pane (and a category within that menu) or open a flow graph.

Blank Tile

This lets you create a tile as a placeholder for future definition.

Category

This lets you create unlimited categories to help organize your tiles.
Layout

Appearance

This lets you apply a preset style to the entire Navigation Pane or Favorites.

Item Width

This lets you adjust the width of all the tiles in the Navigation Pane or Favorites.

Item Margins

This lets you set the distance between tiles.

Auto Fit for all Items

This lets you automatically resize all tiles to display all appearance settings correctly.

Reset Layout

This lets you reset tiles to their default size.

Large Icons

This sets the icons displayed on each tile to a larger size.

Expand only Selected Category

This only allows one category to be expanded at a time.

Suspend Refresh Events

This lets you stop the refresh events from firing until it is unselected, or until you exit SYSPRO.

The next time that you load SYSPRO, this option will have been unselected, and events will fire again.

Show Program Names in Tooltips

This lets you display the program name in tooltips, even if tooltips are not defined.