Re: UIM Help needed

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/10/2006, at 1:33 PM, as400@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Is anyone here using UIM's to create menus?

Lots of people do so quite successfully.

> I have searched through
> the IBM infocenter and have been unable to find any significant
> documents on the subject.  I recently changed shops and we are
> required to use UIM's to create menus, etc.

All the UIM information is in the Application Display Programming 
manual. It describes the syntax of the tag language in Appendix 1. 
Chapter 16 has a worked example of creating a UIM menu.

> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> One thing that I am specifically trying to do is restrict access to
> certain objects and have been told that with UIM's it will remove the
> menu item from displaying if the user does not authority to use that
> object.

You need to do two things:

1) Define a suitable condition:

:cond     name=Bdspmsg
          expr='CHKOBJ("DSPMSG","*CMD","*USE")'.  

2) Reference the condition when defining the menu item:

:menui    option=20
          cond=Bdspmsg
          help='admin/dspmsg'
          action='CMD ?DSPMSG'.&msg(TXT1140). 


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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