Execute Saved Query in Business One

Question

Hi,
    We have the following functionality in one of our addons :
User can associate saved queries in B1 with any window in B1 and execute via a right click menu.
this is how we have written code to do this:
1. user clicks menu to exeute query from any window (e.g. BP window)
2. addon "programatically" scans the menu name under Tools >> Queries >> User Queries >> User defined Categories till it gets to the menu name specified
3. Gets the menu id of the query and fires a menu click event.
As you may know already the menu id's "User Defined Categories" in B1  change dynamically every time a user logs in. Majority of the time the menu id for user categories is a 6-9 digit positive number.
However sometimes one of the user categories is a 10 digit -ve number. In this case the logic that we I have laid out above breaks when it gets to the user category with the -ve menu id. When this happens,  the final result is that the query is not executed and the user cannot see the results.
This has been a recent development that I have seen only on 2007 environments. On some machines this never happens and on some it happens very rarely (1 in 25-30 times the user logs on). But recently we came across a machine (one of our test machines where this happens 1 in 3 times when the user logs on).
We have tried to recreate this -ve 10 digit menu id by prorgamtically adding it to the menu structure via the xml file but the menu id does not show up in the SAP menus.
So I m hoping you can help me with 2 things:
1. Ideas on how get a query's menu id differently than the logic I laid out above.
2. This looks like an SAP issue since it doesnt let me add the menus via the UI API. any thoughts on that?
I really appreciate if anyone can help me out with this.
Thanks,
Gopal

Answer 1

Gopal>
We use the following code to get to a specific query based on is id in the database (The code use a few wrapped UI and DI-methods but I think you will understand)
B1Recordset rsUserQueryData = new B1Recordset("SELECT T0.QName, T1.CatName FROM OUQR T0 JOIN OQCN T1 ON T0.QCategory = T1.CategoryId WHERE T0.IntrnalKey = '" + targetMenuUidOrParam + "'");
                            if (rsUserQueryData.RecordCount > 0)
                                string name = rsUserQueryData.GetValueAsString("QName");
                                string category = rsUserQueryData.GetValueAsString("CatName");
                                B1MenuItem miUserqueries = B1MenuItem.GetMenuItem(SBO.ID.Topmenu.Tools.Queries.UserQueries._UID);
                                for (int i = 0; i < miUserqueries.SubMenus.Count; i++)
                                    if (miUserqueries.SubMenus.Item(i).String == category)
                                        B1MenuItem categoryHeader = new B1MenuItem(miUserqueries.SubMenus.Item(i));
                                        for (int j = 0; j < categoryHeader.SubMenus.Count; j++)
                                            if (categoryHeader.SubMenus.Item(j).String == name)
                                                B1MenuItem.ActivateMenuItem(categoryHeader.SubMenus.Item(j).UID);
                                                return;
                                Notification.StatusbarError(Language.GetString("MI_ERROR"));
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