Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Getting Started

Creating a menu band

Next you must group the actions together into a band. A band is a set of related actions. You can visualize a band as a submenu (all the items that pop up when you select a top-level menu item) or a set of buttons that appear together in a toolbar. There are four types of bands:

MenuBar bands — Define top-level menus.
Submenu bands — Define the items under a top-level menu item.
Toolbar bands — Define groups of related buttons.
Menu & Toolbar bands — Have both visualizations.

Some bands can contain child bands in a hierarchical manner. Bands can also be reused in multiple OpenEdge SmartToolbars™.

To create a band:

Expand the Bands node to see the four band types.
Right-click on the Submenu Bands node, and choose Add Band from the pop-up menu. Note that two update pages are created: Band and Band Object, as shown:



Set the following values on the Band update page:

Field	Value
Band code	oeSubMenuBand
Description	Order Entry band
Band type	Submenu
Item reference used for label	oeSubMenuLabel
System owned	Unselected

Choose Save. The Toolbar and Menu Designer should now look something like the following: