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Thanks; this seems like a valid idea and we will add it to the backlog
This is the issue I encountered.
Description:
I am trying to hide Materials & Tools, Map, and Create Work Order menu items from the Manage navigator for technician users.
I attempted to control visibility using the sigoption, hidden, and disabled attributes on the <menu-item> component.
These attributes work as expected on the RBA navigator page, but do not hide the corresponding menu items in the Manage left navigation panel.
Steps / Configuration Tested:
1. Added sigoption, hidden, and disabled attributes to the following menu items in app.xml:
<menu-item label="Materials & Tools" icon="maximo:materialsandtools" page="materials" id="r9zjz"/>
<menu-item label="Map" icon="maximo:map" page="map" id="xb5jv"/>
2. Verified behavior:
- Works correctly in the RBA navigator page
- Does not hide menu items in the Manage left navigation panel
Additional Findings:
If the corresponding <menu-item> definitions are completely removed from app.xml:
The menu items are hidden correctly in both RBA and on the mobile device
However, the menu labels are rendered in uppercase, which appears to be a side effect and not the desired behavior.
This is the latest response from Support team:
I have reviewed the behavior you are seeing in MAS Mobile 9.1 vs Manage and discuss it internally, and your configuration is correct.
The RBA Navigator page fully respects sigoption, hidden and disabled methods, but Manage left navigation panel does not evaluate them on <menu-item>. This is solely driven by the presence of the <menu-item> in the app.xml and the page routing configuration. The results is that if the <menu-item> exists, it renders regardless of security attributes.
This is by design in 9.1 and is not a misconfiguration. We can call it a limitation.
On the other hand, when you complete remove the <menu-item> in app.xml, the Manage navigator falls back to a generated/default navigation model, putting labels in uppercase formatting and differently, hence you see the all-caps effect.
Since this is by design and limited to this functionality, from a support perspective you can raise on idea to have this tracked by the product owner, although they are preparing some changes with 9.2 and forward, however, I cannot confirm if the Manage navigator will be able to evaluate sigoptions, hidden and disabled methods similar to the RBA navigator.
Another workaround would be to create a tailored technician-specific mobile app and remove the unwanted menu items (Materials & Tools, Map, Create Work Order) from that app’s app.xml, but I'm not sure if that addressed your business need.
Under IBM review to see if this is simply a bug in the <menu-item> registry for sigoption