# APEX 26.1 New Features: Declarative Menu Buttons and Template Component Actions

This is a great combination for something the used to take some effort on writing some functions to execute actions on specific rows of an IR, like using a hidden page item, assigning the PK value of the row to that item and then execute a Dynamic Action submitting that hidden item.

There is now a direct way. In the IR column properties Under Identification -> Type, we can select Actions

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One Action is automatically created

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I'm going to call it "Ticket Actions" and change the Template to "Menu", so I can include more actions.

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Now, we have the "Menus" under our new Action. I'm going to change the behavior to the new "Trigger Action" option, and rename the Menu entry as "Accept"

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A triggered Action is automatically created as "Execute Server-side Code" by default.

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I'm going to create 3 more actions by right clicking "Triggered Actions", to simulate a typical flow. Confirm, Execute and display the result.

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There are some new things here. The first one is under Execute Server-side Code, where we have the option now to show the processing spinner. I'm going to include a name to identify the action, and notice under "Items to Submit" that the TICKET\_ID column is there.

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then we have the Show Success Message Action! this is a great new feature to simplify the way display these kind of messages, like using APEX\_ERROR package.

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Under the Refresh action, we can see another new feature, the "Maintain Pagination" option is available now.

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Now, by right clicking the Accept action, using the Duplicate option I'm creating a new action as a copy of the existing one, and change the "Accept" values to "In Progress" So I can set either of those status.

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Finally, I'm including a server side condition so the current status of the ticket is not displayed as an action:

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So, let's see the result:

The menu and actions are available at row level:

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I we use the Accept action, We'll get the the confirmation:

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after clicking OK the Success message is displayed, and the report is updated.

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And now, the "Accept" action is no longer available in the ticket with Accepted status.

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Hope this is useful in your next projects and maybe upgrading some old ones to simplify them.