New in GX2: Customizing Send To Menus

Please note:  Worldox GX3 brings additional changes made since this topic was written. So illustrations and references here  may not match what you see on GX3 screens and dialogs.

Worldox provides a Send To submenu (available via right-clicking on work list files) with short-cuts to various applications and functions. Until now, you could add, edit and delete Send To targets, but could not change how those choices were presented on menus. This GX2 enhancement allows you to do exactly that, and even gives you a way to place Send To targets on the top-of-screen Worldox pull-down menu bar.

Background

The Send To right-click submenu lists a variety of shortcuts. Here is a typical example:

Some of those menu listings (often called "targets") are there by default; other choices are there at your discretion. Clicking Add/Edit at the bottom of the list brings up the Send To > Add/Edit dialog.

In the Add/Edit Send-To Targets dialog, just select an existing target and click Edit, or click Add to create a new one. Target menu text, destination .exe and parameters for whatever operation you are linking to can then be specified

The GX2 enhancement lies in access - how and where Send To targets are presented. Previously, any such choices always appeared on the Send-To right click submenu shown above - in one list, and only on that menu.

Now you can configure targets (only custom targets, not default choices) to appear on the higher-level right-click file menu – even listing them on the top-of-screen pull-down menu bar for maximum visibility and convenience.

Access is configured via special instructions in the Label field in the Add/Edit Send-To Target dialog.

Option 1: place the Send-To target on the main (top-level) right-click menu

Type the phrase “menu>” before the target name in the Label field, with no extra spaces.

Example: Type this into the label field:

 menu>Notepad

That instructs Worldox to place a Notepad listing directly on the top-level right-click menu, rather than on the Send To submenu:

The target doesn’t act any different when configured this way, only now you won’t have to open that Send To submenu to reach it. Just right-click on the work list file; that target listing is now on the first right-click menu:

Option 2: place the Send-To target on the main right-click menu AND on the top-of-screen pull-down menu bar

Type the phrase “menu>”, then type a recognizable description before the target name in the Label field, with no extra spaces.

Example: Type this into the label field:

 menu>WP Apps>Notepad

That instructs Worldox to create a new WP Apps submenu available from the main right-click menu. Here you are creating a submenu of word processing application targets, of which Notepad will be the first:

Once again, the target is functionally the same, but now appears on its own right-click submenu, also on a submenu available from the pull-down menu bar the top of the screen:  

Note: Any additions to the Worldox pull-down menu bar always display to the right of the Help choice, as shown above.