Hi Christian,

     Forgive me, I am having a problem to understand your scenario. Could you kindly be more specific on this? For example, does it related to WebGrid? Do you want to have a context menu that can show a specific column name?

     Perhaps, you wanted to have a context menu and sub context menu that the item is retrieved from particular column. You detail information would be appreciated and it can help me to support you with the right solution.

     Thank you and have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Andi Santoso

Hi Andi,

Thank you for answering my question. The component I am using is the WebTextEditor. This is not related to the WebGrid component.

What I am trying to achieve is basically a mail merge, but without using the build-in mail merge functionality. I need to create a letter template where I can insert labels to be replaced by data from the database. These labels must have the format view.columnName, for instance vInvoice.FirstName. When the end-user opens the letter, the system will replace the labels with data from the database so that the end-user sees the final letter in the editor.

I already have the code to replace the label with the data from the database, as I am currently using this functionality with another editor, I just need to know how to insert the labels into the letter template using the context menu.

Regards,

Christian

You coud use the OnEditorContextMenu client side event handler for such scenario as detailed in WebTextEditor documentation on the article "How-to: Add Item in Context Menu"

Here is the snippet for your scenario:

function WebTextEditor1_OnEditorContextMenu(controlId, menuObj)
{            
    var items = menuObj.RootMenu.Items;
    if (items.GetNamedItem("vCustom") == null)            
    {
        items.Add(new WebMenuSeparatorItem());
        var vCustomItem = new WebMenuItem("vCustom", "vCustomer", null, OnClickItemContext)

        vCustomItem.Items.Add(new WebMenuItem("vcFirstName", "FirstName", null, OnClickItemContext));
        vCustomItem.Items.Add(new WebMenuItem("vcLastName", "LastName", null, OnClickItemContext));
        vCustomItem.Items.Add(new WebMenuItem("vcAddress", "Address", null, OnClickItemContext));
        vCustomItem.Items.Add(new WebMenuItem("vcPhone", "Phone", null, OnClickItemContext));

        items.Add(vCustomItem);
    }
}

function OnClickItemContext(menuItem)
{
    var rte = ISGetObject("WebTextEditor1");

    var keyword = {
        vcFirstName: "vCustomer.FirstName",
        vcLastName: "vCustomer.LastName",
        vcAddress: "vCustomer.Address",
        vcPhone: "vCustomer.Phone"
    };

    setTimeout(function()
    {
        rte.SetValueToCurrentPosition(keyword[menuItem.Name]);
    }, 500);
}

Thank you for your solution, it works perfectly.

Best Regards,

Christian