Create pop up menus

I am updating my website and have the home page complete...I
think. The other pages have not been updated yet because I am
trying to figure out the best way to create an easy to update
pop-up menu similar to what is currently on all the pages except
the Home page. It is a drop down menu and every time I add a new
category of images like "Antarctica" I have to update the menu on
EVERY page. Here is a link to the Main Gallery and all the pages
except the Home page has the pop-up menu which you see when you
mouse over the word "Gallery".
http://www.westlight.net/gallerynew.html
I would like to create a separate html frame/page that only
has the "Menu Bar" across the top of the page as seen on the Home
page.
http://www.westlight.net/index.html
On all the other pages I would like to have the drop down menu
appear as it current does but in a way that is MUCH easier to
update. I thought I could insert this html frame into all the other
pages and then I would only have to make changes to the one menu
page. I really do not understand much about the ins and outs of web
design.
The new menu bar on the Home page is a series of
images/buttons. I tried to create a pop-up menu using Dreamweaver 8
but it does not appear. Something to do with trying to create a
pop-up menu from an image? I hope that there is an easy way to do
this without having to drop $80.00 on software to create menus as I
obviously do not do this for a living. If I have to buy something
any recommendations would be great.
All suggestions are MUCH appreciated.

Avoid frames, Server side includes are a good way to go.
Determine what platform your host supports i.e. php or asp,
and all you will need is a separate file for your menu bar,
and a bit of code to call it on each page.
"westlight" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I am updating my website and have the home page
complete...I think. The
>other
> pages have not been updated yet because I am trying to
figure out the best
> way
> to create an easy to update pop-up menu similar to what
is currently on
> all the
> pages except the Home page. It is a drop down menu and
every time I add a
> new
> category of images like "Antarctica" I have to update
the menu on EVERY
> page.
> Here is a link to the Main Gallery and all the pages
except the Home page
> has
> the pop-up menu which you see when you mouse over the
word "Gallery".
>
http://www.westlight.net/gallerynew.html
>
> I would like to create a separate html frame/page that
only has the "Menu
> Bar"
> across the top of the page as seen on the Home page.
>
http://www.westlight.net/index.html
On all the other pages I would like
> to
> have the drop down menu appear as it current does but in
a way that is
> MUCH
> easier to update. I thought I could insert this html
frame into all the
> other
> pages and then I would only have to make changes to the
one menu page. I
> really
> do not understand much about the ins and outs of web
design.
>
> The new menu bar on the Home page is a series of
images/buttons. I tried
> to
> create a pop-up menu using Dreamweaver 8 but it does not
appear. Something
> to
> do with trying to create a pop-up menu from an image? I
hope that there is
> an
> easy way to do this without having to drop $80.00 on
software to create
> menus
> as I obviously do not do this for a living. If I have to
buy something any
> recommendations would be great.
>
> All suggestions are MUCH appreciated.
>

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Hello,
Yes, I understand about Spry menu bar in CS5 and will use it in the future for creating new pop-up menus.
However, I have already created many pop-up menus using DW 8 for multiple web sites and standalone web pages - about 100 web pages total - for my employer.
Is it possible to edit these DW 8 pop-up menus from within DW CS5?
I did try the only instructions I found, which I thought were to choose ~ Deprecated from the Behaviors menu, and then choose the Pop-up menu. However, even when I have open a web page in CS5 containing an existing pop-up menu I created in DW 8, I do not see anything about Deprecated on the Behaviors menu.
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Hello, Thanks for the response. All of my web sites and standalone web pages are internal, behind the corporate firewall so I cannot provide you with links.
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Here are two coding samples from my web pages with the links changed so that confidential information is non-identifiable:
Example 1
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<a href="examples1/index.html" name="link1" id="site-home" style="text-decoration:none" onmouseover="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0112173011_0,152,-1,null,'link1')" onmouseout="MM_startTimeout();">Example link 1<img src="images/triangle-sm.gif" alt="pointer" width="5" height="6" style="margin-left:6px"/></a>
2. Associated coding in the <head> tag for this particular example:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="mm_menu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
3. Of course, we load the menus in the first line after the open <body> tag:
<script language="JavaScript1.2">mmLoadMenus();</script>
The "mm_menu.js" file itself is located in the self-same directory/folder as the web page, so it loads properly and the pop-up menus function as expected.
Example 2
1. Link coding associated with the pop-up menu behavior (identifiable link information changed for this example):
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2. Associated coding in the <head> tag for this particular example:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javaScript">

</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="mm_menu.js"></script>
3. Of course, we load the menus in the first line after the open <body> tag:
<script language="JavaScript1.2">mmLoadMenus();</script>
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-------End Code and examples-------
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view the website here:
http://www.kiwihouse.org.nz
I want to keep the pop up menu so am looking for a solution to eliminate the floating question mark
does it have anything to do with the multiple javascripts on each page?.. I have one for the menus, and one for the multiple fadeshow
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Not sure if this is the problem, don't have time to go through all your code - but putting the page through the validator bought up a lot of errors...
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kiwihouse.org.nz%2F
Look at the 3rd error message - it's to do with the way the script link has been written.
Lots of other errors that need fixing as well.
On another note, these pop up menus are not the best way to create menus these days, that's why the pop up menu feature was removed from the latest DW version.
Articles that may be of interest:
http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/
http://apptools.com/rants/jsmenu.php
http://apptools.com/rants/menus.php

Pop-Up Menus and active content errors - Help!

I'm attempting to add pop-up menus to my navigation bar, to
make my site more user-friendly, but to no avail:
I've tried designing pop-up menus in Fireworks, then
importing the html code in, but that gives me errors when I try to
insert the bar. Then, I tried putting my menus in different layers,
with a "show layer" behavior on the button, and a "hide layer"
behavior attached to the roll-off of the layer, but my version of
Dreamweaver won't attach a behavior to a layer.
Then, I noticed the tech-note on this site for the fix to use
pop-ups in a template, so I added pop-up menus directly to my
navigational buttons using the wizard. So here's where my problem
comes in. . .
When I preview my page, it throws up an active content error,
but will still run. I uploaded it to my remote server, but when I
went to the url, no action takes place when I put my cursor over
it. Anybody have any ideas on how to create a pop-up menu that
won't throw up an active content error? I've seen them on plenty of
websites before, but can't figure how to do them.
Any light you could shed would be greatly appreciated!

> I'm attempting to add pop-up menus to my navigation bar,
to make my site
> more
> user-friendly, but to no avail:
Sometimes, they make your site less user-friendly. So be
careful.
The DW/FW pop-up menus are usually something that should be
avoided. They
are very poorly thought out and implemented, and will likely
cause you
continuing problems. It's foolish to devote the time to them
that could be
more effectively be placed elsewhere, especially since there
are better
options that work right out of the box, so to speak. Please
check the free
and commercial options here -
http://www.projectseven.com/.
> Any light you could shed would be greatly appreciated!
Don't use DW/FW pop-up menus.
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"Ally86" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> I'm attempting to add pop-up menus to my navigation bar,
to make my site
> more
> user-friendly, but to no avail:
>
> I've tried designing pop-up menus in Fireworks, then
importing the html
> code
> in, but that gives me errors when I try to insert the
bar. Then, I tried
> putting my menus in different layers, with a "show
layer" behavior on the
> button, and a "hide layer" behavior attached to the
roll-off of the layer,
> but
> my version of Dreamweaver won't attach a behavior to a
layer.
>
> Then, I noticed the tech-note on this site for the fix
to use pop-ups in a
> template, so I added pop-up menus directly to my
navigational buttons
> using the
> wizard. So here's where my problem comes in. . .
>
> When I preview my page, it throws up an active content
error, but will
> still
> run. I uploaded it to my remote server, but when I went
to the url, no
> action
> takes place when I put my cursor over it. Anybody have
any ideas on how
> to
> create a pop-up menu that won't throw up an active
content error? I've
> seen
> them on plenty of websites before, but can't figure how
to do them.
>
> Any light you could shed would be greatly appreciated!
>

Beyond Pop-Up Menus

I recently generated a set of pulldown menus using
dreamweaver 8 behaviors. I am currently trying to modify them.
First I moved the onmouseover from the link to the table cell.
During onmousover I want the table cell to turn the same color as
the pulldown menu (similar to the pulldown menus on the adobe site
above).
Test Page
http://www.triodisplay.com/company/about2.php
I gave the cells ids and added some javascript. The first
link (catalog) works correctly while the others don't during
onMouseout.
Here is the javascript I created to change the color of the
cell.
quote:
function changeStyleById(id){
if (document.getElementById)
var nodeObj = document.getElementById(id)
nodeObj.style.background = '#333333';
function changeStyleBackById(id){
if (menuid != 0) {
var nodeObj = document.getElementById(id)
nodeObj.style.background = '#B2B2B2';
Here is the cell that calls the code.
quote:
<td align="left" id="1"
onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0425152551_0,-2,9,null,'image1',
'2')" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout('1');"> <a href="
http://www.triodisplay.com/ps/ps.php"
class="topnav"> <img src="testbutton/blank.gif" alt="design"
name="image1" width="1" height="1" border="0" id="image1">Retail
Design</a></td>
Here is a link to the javascript
http://www.triodisplay.com/company/mm_menu.js
The problem I am having is onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout('1') .
MM_startTimeout calls a function and I've inserted a variable for
it to pass which is equal to the id. The problem is the mm_menu.js
is a list of functions and I can't figure out how to get my
variable to my new function.
I am looking for either an easy way to pass the variable or
if someone has a suggestions to change the color of the cell with
the pulldown menus I'd appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.

> First I moved the onmouseover from the link to the table
cell
Bad choice. So was your selection of the DW pop-up menus.
Here's what the
person who adapted that code for Macromedia has to say about
the method you
are using -
http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/
Could you possibly consider one of the several other REALLY
GOOD ways to do
this? By the way, these good ways would allow you to do what
you want
easily....
Check the uberlink and MacFly tutorials at PVII -
http://www.projectseven.com/
and the Navbar tutorial/articles at Thierry's place
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/
Or this one (more recent article):
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp
Or to get it done fast, go here -
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
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"cczernia1" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I recently generated a set of pulldown menus using
dreamweaver 8 behaviors.
>I
> am currently trying to modify them. First I moved the
onmouseover from the
> link
> to the table cell. During onmousover I want the table
cell to turn the
> same
> color as the pulldown menu (similar to the pulldown
menus on the adobe
> site
> above).
>
> Test Page
>
http://www.triodisplay.com/company/about2.php
>
> I gave the cells ids and added some javascript. The
first link (catalog)
> works
> correctly while the others don't during onMouseout.
>
> Here is the javascript I created to change the color of
the cell.
>
>
quote:
function changeStyleById(id){
> if (document.getElementById)
> {
> var nodeObj = document.getElementById(id)
> nodeObj.style.background = '#333333';
> }
> }
>
> function changeStyleBackById(id){
> if (menuid != 0) {
> var nodeObj = document.getElementById(id)
> nodeObj.style.background = '#B2B2B2';
> }
>
> }
>
> Here is the cell that cell that calls the code.
>
>
quote:
<td align="left" id="1"
>
onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0425152551_0,-2,9,null,'image1',
> '2')"
> onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout('1');"> <a
> href="
http://www.triodisplay.com/ps/ps.php"
class="topnav"> <img
> src="testbutton/blank.gif" alt="design" name="image1"
width="1" height="1"
> border="0" id="image1">Retail
Design</a></td>
>
>
> Here is a link to the javascript
>
http://www.triodisplay.com/company/mm_menu.js
>
> The problem I am having is
onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout('1') .
> MM_startTimeout
> calls a function and I've inserted a variable for it to
pass which is
> equal to
> the id. The problem is the mm_menu.js is a list of
functions and I can't
> figure
> out how to get my variable to my new function.
>
> I am looking for either an easy way to pass the variable
or if someone has
> a
> suggestions to change the color of the cell with the
pulldown menus I'd
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Pop-Up Menus gone wrong.

As you can see here; its all messed up
I would like to know what maybe the problem here please.
How can i create pop menus using thumbnails from the video in the BD.
(related to this thread; http://forums.adobe.com/thread/691588?tstart=0 )

If you want to create a pop-up menu with static video thumbnail then try the following steps:
1. File->New-> Pop-up Menu
2. Window->Menu Viewer, (double click the menu in the project panel to open it in the menu viewer)
3. Select any video button (or "Atomic Video Button" from Technology) in the Library panel and drag n drop it on the menu viewer.
4. Use "Edit->Duplicate" option to duplicate the video button.

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How do I get navigation bars to stay highlighted while the
mouse is over the pop-up menu in Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks 8. I
found directions on the Adobe Website, but it only works for the MX
versions, as the codes are different. Navigation bars and pop-up
menus were created in Fireworks and exported to Dreamweaver.
Thanks

How do I get navigation bars to stay highlighted while the
mouse is over the pop-up menu in Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks 8. I
found directions on the Adobe Website, but it only works for the MX
versions, as the codes are different. Navigation bars and pop-up
menus were created in Fireworks and exported to Dreamweaver.
Thanks

Keeping Nav Bars highlighted with pop-up menus

How do I get navigation bars to stay highlighted while the
mouse is over the pop-up menu in Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks 8? I
found directions on the Adobe Website, but it only works for the MX
versions, as the codes are different. Navigation bars and pop-up
menus were created in Fireworks and exported tov Dreamweaver.
Thanks

I am having this problem as well. Does anyone have a
solution?

Problems with blu-ray pop-up menus

I made the mistake of tacking this question/problem onto another similar post, so here it is again for some:
I got this error message near the end of the disc build:
Blu-ray Error: "fatal error". Code: "6", Note: "Graphics buffer underflows. - Failed to multiplex with maximum IG PTS: 54900000 (in 90kHz).
The blu-ray project I am working on is an 87 min live concert with about 8 other much shorter timelines. The main menu has 6 buttons with a motion background. There are few submenus as well, but the problem came when I started making pop-up menus for the various timelines.
This is the first project where I really had to explore the possibliltes and limitations of Encore's pop-up menus. I burned a test disc with just a basic pop-up menu to see how the menu's opacity would look over the final video. All the video assets were set to to transcode "Automatically". All audio assets are blu-ray compliant Surround ac3's or 16-bit stereo WAV's so could be left as "Don't Transcode". This disc burned perfectly.
I then went through the pretty involved process of making a final version of the main pop-up menus. The main concert's pop-up menu has 5 pages (including page 0). There are specific pop-up menus for other timelines, but those have no more than 2 pages. None of the menus have more than 10 buttons.
I tried to burn the disc, and it came back with the error above. After reading some other posts, I thought it was worth a try to delete the AuthorScriptHDMVSessions folder before starting a new burn since it was already filled with files from my test burn. That didn't help.
Any insight or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

After countless tests and research, I finally have a successfully burned blu-ray with WORKING multi-page pop-up menus (that I am happy with). Thank you to all the people who gave theoretical guidance and suggestions in emails and other posts. There has been no shortage of oddities and obstacles to overcome when just trying to make a simple blu-ray. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to accurately pinpoint what was causing the original error message. The project just needed to get done.
The main pop-up menu has 4 pages, with 13 buttons on each page. Only about 5 - 9 of the "buttons" on each page are actual buttons that link anywhere. The other buttons on each page only serve as the remaining pieces of the menu's background and cannot be accessed on the final disc. Totally ridiculous way to make the backgrounds for pop-up menus, but it works.
Some of the other things I learned regarding pop-up menus + Encore misc:
1. If at all possible, totally create a menu .psd BEFORE bringing it into an Encore project. Make the button order in the .psd what you want it to end up being in the end (bottom layer is button 1). If you start editing and saving order after it has been brought in, Encore will almost always revert it back to some strange (possibly original) button order. You will spend all your time re-routing button navigation and changing their numbers, only to find out later that Encore has changed it all back without notice.
2. As many people state, it is best to have Encore do as little thinking as possible. All of my button groups originally had Text Layers within them with some fx applied. I merged each text layer down into that button's background layer to essentially rasterize the text with the fx applied. Each (+) button group therefore only had a higlight layer and a background layer. After doing this for all the buttons, the .psd file size was greatly reduced. Naturally I saved a copy before going through the merging process in case I ever had to go back and edit the text.
3. Originally the background for the pop-up menus were made from a rectangle cut-out of the background of the main menu. This was the width of the frame and around 1/5 of the height. I had changed the opacity to around 60%, and cut up the pieces to go with their respective buttons. For the final disc, I just made a shape with the Rounded Rectangle Tool, and filled it with a solid colour. It is probably only about half the size of the original pop-up menu's background. I changed its opacity as well, but then merged it with a blank layer so Encore didn't have to think about the opacity setting.
4. I encoded all the video elements BEFORE they were brought into the project. There are some issues with the way the file sizes are interpretted by Encore, but I won't trust it to encode anything again.
5. For some reason Encore wants to transcode 16-bit, 48.0 kHz .aiff files when making a blu-ray, but 16-bit, 48.0 kHz .wav files do NOT need trancoding (for both dvds and blu-rays).

Need help with connected / linked pop-up menus

I want to select a preset.
What I did is create 2 pop-up menus. The first with the preset folders and the second with the presets from that folder.
Each pop-up group has a pop-up and a static field with the current choise.
After selecting a different value from the first pop-up menu I want to have the second popup menu filled with the new, right presets of that folder.
The first time everything works correct.
However when selecting a different folder I see that the "preset table" is filled with the correct new preset of that folder. Also the static field below the second pop-up menu shows the first value of the correct new presets. But the second pop-up menu itself still contains the presets of the first folder and not the new folder.
Yet in the Observer I see that the preset table contains the right and new presets.
My code is below.
I based it on the sample in the SDK manual.
Question: How can I update the second pop-up menu so that the pop-up menu shows the right presets.
Code below
local LrApplication = import 'LrApplication'
local LrPathUtils = import 'LrPathUtils'
local LrFileUtils = import 'LrFileUtils'
local LrBinding = import "LrBinding"
local LrDialogs = import "LrDialogs"local LrFunctionContext = import "LrFunctionContext"
local LrView = import "LrView"
local bind = LrView.bind -- shortcut for bind() method
--     https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua
local inspect = require 'inspect'
local logFilename = 'PresetList'
local myLogger = import 'LrLogger'( logFilename )
myLogger:enable( "logfile" )
local logPath
Name          emptyLogFile
Purpose          Clears the existing log file.
From cookbook: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Clearing_your_logfile_automatically-19677.html
function emptyLogFile()
--local myLogger = import 'LrLogger'( 'Stash' )
myLogger:disable()
logPath = LrPathUtils.child(LrPathUtils.getStandardFilePath('documents'), logFilename .. ".log")
if LrFileUtils.exists( logPath ) then
local success, reason = LrFileUtils.delete( logPath )
if not success then
logger:error("Error deleting existing logfile!" .. reason)
end
end
myLogger:enable( "logfile" )
end
Name          getLocationLogFile.
Purpose          Returns the full path of the current log file.
function getLocationLogFile()
return logPath
end
local function getPresetFolders()
-- Get all folders with presets
    local lrPresetFolders = LrApplication.developPresetFolders()
    local presetFolderCache = {}
local record = {}
    for i, fo in ipairs( lrPresetFolders ) do
record = {title = fo:getName(), value = fo }
--record = {title = fo:getName(), value = fo:getName() }
--myLogger:info( "folder name = " .. fo:getName() )
table.insert ( presetFolderCache, record )
end
--     myLogger:info("Voor de listing")
--     myLogger:info("preset Folders : " .. inspect ( presetFolderCache ) )
return presetFolderCache
end
local function getPresets ( folderObject )
local presets = folderObject:getDevelopPresets()
local presetCache = {}
local record = {}
for j, p in ipairs( presets ) do
record = {title = p:getName(), value = p:getName() }
--record = {title = p:getName(), value = p:getName() }
myLogger:info( "getPresets = " .. p:getName() )
table.insert ( presetCache, record )
end
myLogger:info("presets : " .. inspect ( presetCache ) )
return presetCache
end
local function ChoosePreset()
emptyLogFile()
local presetFolders = getPresetFolders()
local currentPresetFolder = presetFolders[1]["value"]
local presets = getPresets ( currentPresetFolder )
myLogger:info(presets)
--     myLogger:info("preset Folders : " .. inspect ( presetFolders ) )
LrFunctionContext.callWithContext( 'Pop-up example', function( context )
local f = LrView.osFactory() -- obtain view factory
local properties = LrBinding.makePropertyTable( context ) -- make prop table
-- create some keys with initial values
properties.presetFolder = presetFolders[1]["value"] -- for radio buttons and pop-up menu
properties.preset = presets[1]["value"]
properties:addObserver( 'presetFolder', function( properties, key, newValue )
myLogger:info("Observer - get preset list" )
currentPresetFolder = properties.presetFolder
presets = getPresets ( currentPresetFolder )
myLogger:info(presets)
myLogger:info("Observer - Preset table: " .. inspect ( presets ) )
--     Set the new value
properties.preset = presets[1]["value"]
myLogger:info("Observer: " .. presets[1]["title"] )
end )
--     myLogger:info("presetFolder = " .. properties.presetFolder )
--     myLogger:info("preset = " .. properties.preset )
local contents = f:column { -- create view hierarchy
fill_horizontal = 1,
spacing = f:control_spacing(),
bind_to_object = properties, -- default bound table is the one we made
f:group_box {
title = "Preset folders",
fill_horizontal = 1,
spacing = f:control_spacing(),
f:popup_menu {
value = bind 'presetFolder', -- current value bound to same key as static text
items = presetFolders
f:static_text {
fill_horizontal = 1,
title = bind 'presetFolder', -- bound to same key as current selection
f:group_box {
title = "Presets",
fill_horizontal = 1,
spacing = f:control_spacing(),
f:popup_menu {
value = bind 'preset', -- current value bound to same key as static text
items = presets
--     items = getPresets ( currentPresetFolder )
f:static_text {
fill_horizontal = 1,
title = bind 'preset', -- bound to same key as current selection
local result = LrDialogs.presentModalDialog( -- invoke the dialog
title = "Select preset",
contents = contents,
end
end
-- Now display the dialogs
ChoosePreset()

That should work because you are likely to be creating a new table each time computeNewItems() executes..
Sometime the bind function doesn't recognise whether the contents of a table bound to a property changes. So if you use something like this:
local myItems = computeNewItems() -- compute array of tables with title and value members
properties['myPresetItems'] = myItems -- assign to bound member of property table.
it will work the first time. If you then do this:
myItems = computeNewItems() -- compute array of tables with title and value members but using existing variable
properties['myPresetItems'] = myItems -- assign to bound member of property table. Change might not be noticed by bind.
In this instance you would need to reassign the same value again. i.e.
properties['myPresetItems'] = myItems -- assign to bound member of property table again to force bind to check for table values.
Setting a property with the same value twice seems to trick bind into checking to see whether you have bound a table. I'm not sure whether this trick is only required on some versions of LR (e.g. LR 2) or only on one of the platforms, but even if it isn't required in LR 5 it will help improve your backwards compatibility and it shouldn't cause any harm to continue using it in LR 5.
Matt

Help using countifs with pop-up menus please

made a spreadsheet and am using pop-up menus as the cell format to list several shifts when making a schedule for my job, so far so good.
now i would like to total across the rows for each type of shift in 3 categories so for instance, i would like to create a formula that will tally the number of times i selected either the drop down for 9a-6p or 10a-7pm...i can get it to count one occurance by using =COUNTIF(B5:H5, "=9A-6P")...so i was trying something like =COUNTIFS(B5:H5,"=9A-6P",B5:H5,"=10A-7P") to get it to total the number of times i chose both of those text entires for the drop down, but that seems to be missing something...any help would be appreciated....

Hi Steph,
What you're missing is this (From the iWork Formulas and Functions User Guide):
COUNTIFS(test-values, condition, test-values..., condition...)
test-values: A collection containing values to be tested. test-values is a collection containing any type of value.
condition: An expression that results in a logical TRUE or FALSE. condition is an expression that can contain anything as long as the result from comparing condition to a value in test-values can be expressed as a Boolean value of TRUE or FALSE.
test-values...: Optionally include one or more additional collections containing values to be tested. Each test-values collection must be followed immediately with a condition expression. This pattern of test-values, condition can be repeated as many times as needed.
condition...: If an optional collection of test-values is included, an expression that results in a logical TRUE or FALSE. There must be one condition following each test-values collection; therefore, this function will always have an odd number of arguments.
Usage Notes
Each value in test-values is compared to the corresponding condition. If the
corresponding values in each collection meet the corresponding conditional tests,
the count is increased by 1.
The test-values, condition pairs may be thought of as a series of tests connected by AND(s)—the whole set is TRUE only if ALL parts are TRUE.
Your formula should be returning a zero count and you are testing the same set of values for two exclusive conditions—any pop-up set to "9A - 6P" cannot be also set to "10A - 7P"—at least one of the conditions will be false in every case.
For the results you want, you'll need a formula that counts each value/condition set separately, and adds the results:
=COUNTIF(B5:H5,"=9A-6P")+COUNTIF(B5:H5,"=10A-7P")
OR
=SUM(COUNTIF(B5:H5,"=9A-6P"),COUNTIF(B5:H5,"=10A-7P")
Regards,
Barry

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