Commands are actions to be taken when the user clicks on an option from the dashboard heading drop-down menu or when they click on a “record” in a panel. A record may be a row in a table, a point on a map or any item that corresponds to a row in the panel's data.

There are three places in the designer where commands are added and managed:

• Dashboard Commands (main heading drop-down)
• Panel Content Commands (record click)
• Panel User Commands (panel heading drop-down)

Each may have as many commands associated as necessary.

Click on a command in the list, or click the “New” button to start a new command.

Select the type of command. Except for Content Commands you can also add text and icon to be displayed in the drop-down menu item for the command. Click “Add Command”; this will take you back to the commands list where you can click on the new command to complete its settings.

The command types available are:

• Panels to Front - move one or more panels to the front of their box
• fPanels Dashboard - open a separate dashboard
• fDocs Document - generate a document from an fDocs template
• fSheets Spreadsheet - generate a spreadsheet from an fSheets template
• Spreadsheet from DSD - generate a spreadsheet based on an fData DSD
• Full Page Menu - open an fSeries menu as a full page
• Start Page - go to the fSeries default start page
• CSV from a Panel - download a CSV file containing the data from a selected panel
• JavaScript Function - execute an internal function (requires coding)
• Link to URL - link to an external web site

A command consists of two parts:

• action - all of the settings for the command
• condition - the conditions under which the command is made available to the user

Once the command is added you can set up its action and other values as appropriate to its type. You can switch between action and condition in the command edit pages.