Position in menu and submenus for apps

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Hi,

I am developing an app and I want to have it in a certain position within the ShoGrid menu within the host application. It seems like the menu entry position is only defined alphabetically and not where it is specified in tk-[hostapplication].yml in the config.
Also I want to create a submenu with further entries but can’t find any documentation on this, is it possible?

Thanks

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Yes you can create submenu’s I believe as long as the host app supports it.
have a look at one of the engines which should have some functions for creating menus.

As for the location, I believe it does adhere to the order specified in the environent files.

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Hi Ricardo,
Thanks for your reply. These were the places that I was already looking into but couldn’t find an answer. It would help me a lot if you could point me to something a bit more specific if you can.
Thanks

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Hi @Chris.Falkenhagen

For Alias we are currently sorting the menu alphabetically as shown here:

I will also confirm that it is not straight-forward to add a menu / sub-menu and control the order of them.

I will be looking into this further, thanks for flagging this here!

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@Chris.Falkenhagen for Alias, submenus will automatically be created for applications that register more than one menu command (e.g. ShotGrid Workfiles > File Open and File Save). There is currently no support for creating a submenu otherwise. Please create a support request if this is still needed.

Customization for ShotGrid menu item ordering should be fixed in the next tk-alias release.