Creating a Submit Workflow Menu Item

A Submit Workflow menu item, allows the user to update, delete, or create data even when not connected to the network. When the user connects, data is automatically sent and received.

1. From the palette on the Screen Design page, click Menuitem, then click the Menu box.
2. From the Properties view, select the menu item for which to configure the properties.
3. In the Properties view, configure the properties for the submit menu item:

   Property	Description
   Name	Enter a valid name for the menu item. Note: To avoid wrapping of menu item names on Apple iOS devices, keep the name length to 10 or fewer characters.
   Key	Select the key with which to bind the submit menu item.
   Default	Select to display the menu item prominently on the screen.
   Type	Select Submit Workflow.

4. If the menu item is an operation associated with a mobile business object, you can configure these properties in Details:

   Property	Description
   Mobile business object	The MBO with which the menu item is associated. Click Search to locate the MBO.
   Invoke parent update	No changes are made to the parent MBO, but the appropriate operations (create, update, delete) are performed on its descendants.
   Invoke operation	Invoke the selected MBO operation with which the menu item is associated. Select the operation from the list, which is populated when you select the MBO.
   Invoke object query	Invoke the object query from the menu item.
   Submit confirmation message	(Optional) Enter text to show in a message box on the screen when the submit operation finishes successfully.
   Resubmit confirmation message	(Optional) Enter text to show in a message box on the screen when the submit was not successful and thus must be resubmitted.

5. Select File > Save.