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Adobe Version Cue CS3 Client Programmer’s Guide 19

Adobe Version Cue CS3 Client Programmer’s Guide

Key Operations

Restrictions

Support for custom menus has some limitations:

z The Version Cue client receives the custom menu information from the Version Cue

Server when you enter the project for the first time; for instance, by double-clicking the

project in the File > Open dialog. Before entering the project, the custom menu informa-

tion is not available, which means that you are not able to contribute custom menu items to

the context-sensitive menu shown when a project icon is selected in Adobe Bridge CS3 or

the Adobe Common User Interface File > Open dialog, say.

z The menu information also is retrieved only once and cached at the Version Cue client. If

you change anything on the Version Cue Server related to custom menus, you must restart

the client to see the update.

z Custom menu information is not available for offline projects. This is as designed.

For More Information

See VersionCueSDK IDE Help > Version Cue SDK Help > Samples Guide > CustomMenu.

See Case Study: Connecting to an External System through Version Cue CS3, which is available

in PDF in the sdk.docs folder of the SDK and also accessible through VersionCueSDK IDE

Help > Version Cue SDK Help >

Customizing the Search Interface

You can customize the search user interface of the Version Cue client. The Version Cue client

can retrieve custom search criteria from Version Cue Server and send these custom criteria to

a Version Cue Server plug-in, which can then trigger execution of the search in an external

system, subject to the custom criteria. A search criterion contains the following key elements:

z A display name; for instance, “Processing Status.”

z An operator; for instance, “contains.”

z Optional predefined values, such as “approved.”

The user interface of the standard Version Cue client—that is, other than Bridge—shows only

criteria of type “string” and “enum.” For criteria of type “string,” the user interface of the client

displays a text field and silently uses the operator “contains” for the search operation. For crite-

ria of type “enum,” the text field in the user interface of the client changes to a drop-down list,

which shows different predefined values; in this case, the operator “equals” is implicitly used

by the search operation.

With Bridge, search criteria of all types (not just “string” and “enum”) are shown, and end

users can specify the operator to use for a particular search operation. The other feature of

Bridge that is unavailable in other Version Cue clients is that Bridge can display multiple

search criteria and allow you to make logical compositions of these criteria (such logical OR /

logical AND) to create more complex search expressions.

Figure 10 shows custom search criteria, provided by a sample plug-in for Version Cue Server

named sample.customproject. Note the custom search categories: “Processing Status” and

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