Endevor menu panel is displayed and the number in front of an option is blanked out. Why?

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor Natural Integration
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin
• Endevor - Enterprise Workbench

Issue/Introduction

When an Endevor menu panel is displayed, the number in front of an option is blanked out. 

When the user attempts to select the blanked out option they get an 'invalid selection' message.

Cause

The ENHOPT FIXED_PANEL_OPT#S option in the Endevor ENCOPTBL table is turned on.

***********************************************************************
* FIXED_PANEL_OPT#S                                                    
* THE ENDEVOR PRIMARY OPTION AND FOREGROUND OPTION PANELS ARE          
* ARE TAILORED ACCORDING TO A USER'S AUTHORITY TO PERFORM AN ACTION OR 
* FUNCTION.                                                            
* - WITHOUT FIXED_PANEL_OPT#S, IF A USER IS NOT AUTHORIZED FOR A PANEL 
*   OPTION, THEN THAT OPTION IS OMITTED FROM THE PANEL AND THE SUB-    
*   SEQUENT OPTIONS ARE RENUMBERED TO MAINTAIN A CONTINUOUS SEQUENCE.  
* - WITH FIXED_PANEL_OPT#S TURNED ON, IF A USER IS NOT AUTHORIZED FOR  
*   A PANEL OPTION, THEN THAT OPTION NUMBER (LETTER) WILL BE BLANKED   
*   OUT TO INDICATE THAT THE ATTEMPTED OPTION IS UNAVAILABLE.          
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
         ENHOPT FIXED_PANEL_OPT#S=ON                                   

 

Resolution

If you do not need to retain the original numbering Endevor menu panel and want the entries the removed, then

1. Comment out the ENHOPT FIXED_PANEL_OPT#S  line in the ENCOPTBL table by placing an * in column 1

2. Reassemble and link the ENCOPTBL table