Programmatically Forms and Menus

[SBarnes]

How can you programmatically check for the presence of a menu item and for a form and added them if they are not present?

What i am trying to do is simplify/automate the deployment of a plugin.

[Mike.Sheen]

How can you programmatically check for the presence of a menu item and for a form and added them if they are not present?

What i am trying to do is simplify/automate the deployment of a plugin.

For a form, you can use the Manager.Forms collection - which is a list maintenance of the Form type - so you can look for the form in there, if not present add what you want and then Save it - and then invoke the Read method so the Manager has it's collection refreshed.

For menus - use the menu business logic - that's a normal maintenance business logic - so you will need to read one for a given RecID and then you can look for the menu item you want and add it if not present and save it.