ShowNavigationItemController Class

Represents a WindowController descendant that contains the ShowNavigationItem Action.

Namespace: DevExpress.ExpressApp.SystemModule

Assembly: DevExpress.ExpressApp.v24.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.ExpressApp

Declaration

C#
VB.NET

public class ShowNavigationItemController :
    WindowController,
    IModelExtender,
    IShowViewParametersCustomizer

Public Class ShowNavigationItemController
    Inherits WindowController
    Implements IModelExtender,
               IShowViewParametersCustomizer

Remarks

The ShowNavigationItemController is a part of the Navigation System. This Controller is intended for presenting the ShowNavigationItem Action.

In a Windows Forms Application:

ShowNavigationITemAction_Win

In an ASP.NET Web Forms application:

ShowNavigationITemAction_Web

For details on the ShowNavigationItem Action, refer to the description of the ShowNavigationItemController.ShowNavigationItemAction property that provides access to this Action.

To customize the default behavior of the ShowNavigationItem Action, you can inherit from this Controller, or subscribe to its events. In addition, you can access the Action to modify its behavior.

If you need to inherit from the ShowNavigationItemController, the following protected virtual methods are available for overriding:

Method	When is it called?	Description
HasRights	Invoked as a result of calling the InitializeItems method when populating the Navigation‘s Items collection.	Determines whether the application’s Security System grants permission to read the object(s) of the passed item’s View. If a Views \| View node describing the item’s View cannot be found, this method returns true. The items for which this method returns false, are disabled by the ShowNavigationItemController.SynchronizeItemsWithSecurity method.
InitializeItems	Called after the ShowNavigationItemController is activated.	Raises the ShowNavigationItemController.CustomInitializeItems event. Creates ChoiceActionItem objects and initializes them using information from the Application Model‘s IModelRootNavigationItems node. Marks the ChoiceActionItem as a start-up item if the corresponding NavigationItem node is set for the NavigationItems node’s IModelRootNavigationItems.StartupNavigationItem property. Invokes the OnItemsInitialized method to raise the ShowNavigationItemController.ItemsInitialized event. Calls the ShowNavigationItemController.GetStartupNavigationItem method to mark one of the ShowNavigationItem Action’s items as a start-up item, if none of the items are marked as yet. Sets the ShowNavigationItem Action’s SingleChoiceAction.SelectedItem property to the item that is marked as a start-up item. This item will be selected when the navigation control is shown for the first time.
OnItemsInitialized	Called after the ShowNavigationItem Action’s Items collection is populated via the InitializeItems method.	Raises the ShowNavigationItemController.ItemsInitialized event.
ShowNavigationItem	Called by the ShowNavigationItem Action’s SingleChoiceAction.Execute event handler.	Raises the ShowNavigationItemController.CustomShowNavigationItem event. If the Handled parameter of the CustomShowNavigationItem event handler is not set to false, creates a View using information of the passed Item’s ChoiceActionItem.Data property cast as ViewShortcut.

Public members are described individually in the documentation.

Note

This Controller does not have UI-specific descendants. If you require, you can inherit from this Controller to implement a UI-specific functionality.

To ascertain whether the Controller is active, use the Controller.Active property (see How to: Detect a Lookup List View in Code). If you need to know the reason for its deactivation or activation at runtime, use the DiagnosticInfo Action.

Information on the ShowNavigationItemController and its ShowNavigationItem Action is available in the Application Model‘s ActionDesign node. To access it, use the Model Editor.