Last Friday i installed the notes only Beta and was surprised to find the cool and very useful new right click menu was available.Today I uninstalled the client completely and installed the 3 client version. The nice menu gone in the Notes client, it has reverted to the 8.0.1 version with single spaces between each item.
Is there a preference to turn on the cool menu again?
Subject: what application are you using?
We redid the right-click menus in Mail, Calendar, To Do, and Contacts. As long as you are using the latest template, they should appear for you. Were you using a different application, perhaps?
Subject: The funny thing is
I’m using the OpenNTF 8.01 template. The strange thing is that I was using that template on Friday in the Notes only client and the nice menu was available then. In fact I switched several times back and forth between the official template and the OpenNTF one, and restarted my PC several times as well. As soon as I changed to the 3 clients the menu dissapeared.I’ve replaced my mail file’s template with the official mail85.ntf and all is OK now.
Is the new menu solely a part of the template?
Subject: menus - it depends
For Mail/etc. we disabled the “default right-click options” in favor of our own customized right-click options. I’m not sure about OpenNTF, however.
But yes, right-click menus depend on the individual application’s design.
Subject: Menu looks different in 8.0.1 client
I’m running the 8.0.1 client on a diffrent PC and the right click menu is different so the new menu look must be dependant on the template and the client version?
Subject: “different” menus ?
When you say the menus are different, do you mean that the list of actions you see on right-click is different when looking at OpenNTF application on different releases?
Or that there is more vertical spacing in 8.5?
If it is the latter, then this is intentional. We are adding a transparent image to make all the menu items uniform height, and accommodate the images that we use on the right-click menus in the Notes Mail template.
Subject: Different menus
Using the mail85.ntf template.If you look at the menu on the 8.5 client it’s the expected look complete with icons (see 85.gif).
However if you use the same mail file using the same 8.5 template and look at the menu on the 8.0.1 client (Standard) not only are there no icons but the menu content is different (see 801.gif).
The point I’m making is that it must be a combination of template and client code that makes up the menu look.
Subject: yes, diferent
Thanks for supplying the pictures and description.
The three items at the bottom of the 8.5 context menu are new system actions in 8.5. They will not display in 8.01. The icons on the context menu do not display in 8.01 either.
Subject: as far as I know, the list itself is a template dependency
For the list of right-click actions, the only difference between 8.02 and 8.5 is that 8.02 has ‘Document Properties’ and 8.5 has a Sametime pull-right.