[Bug]: Dynamic menu items lose reference to currentItem in list.

[Kye-NG]

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Description

Dynamic menu buttons lose reference to currentItem inside of the onClick event when the widget is inside of a list.

Using currentItem.value within the onclick event of a dynamic menu item works as is, but when the menu is inside of a list currentItem.value is undefined.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a Menu Button widget.
   

2. Set the menu items source to "Dynamic".

3. Set the "Source data" to the following or something similar {{[{ label: 'test1', value: 'banana'}, { label: 'test2', value: 'orange'}] }}.

4. Configure the menu items as follows, and as seen on the example page.

5. Label: {{ currentItem.label}};

6. Onclick: {{showAlert(currentItem.value, 'success')}};
   

7. Click on one of the options and the showAlert will pop up with the value.
   

8. Drag and drop or copy the menu button widget into a list item, and it will return showAlert expected STRING for 'message' argument but received UNDEFINED.
   

Public Sample App

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Environment

Production

Severity

High (Blocker to building or releasing)

Issue video log

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Version

Self hosted: v1.14 and also v1.23

[Nikhil-Nandagopal]

@Kye-NG in this case you should use the List1.selectedItem or List1.triggeredItem

[Kye-NG]

That gives me the metadata of the list item itself, i want to access the data of the dynamic menu button that i clicked on.

both List1.selectedItem and List1.triggeredItem contain

But i'm expecting { label: 'test1', value: 'banana'} which is the clicked button's data.

[Nikhil-Nandagopal]

@Kye-NG use the selectedItemView then

[Kye-NG]

@Nikhil-Nandagopal that also doesn't contain the data of the button i clicked... to reiterate, i don't want the metadata of the list item, i want the metadata of the button that i clicked on.

Have you tried the reproducible steps? It's quite easy to understand that when the button is outside of the list, the onclick event can access the buttons values when clicked using currentItem, but if it's put inside of a list it no longer has those values attached to currentItem.

Since it's a dynamic menu (which will be based off of the data from the list), currently without having access to currentItem values for the button, I won't be able to know which button is being clicked.

[Nikhil-Nandagopal]

@Kye-NG ok I now see the problem. This is specifically for dynamic menus inside a list when you need to know which menu item inside the menu button inside the list is clicked