Toolbar and Context Menu

The FileManager component provides the following UI customization properties:

The toolbar property specifies the toolbar's visibility and available commands.
The contextMenu property specifies the context menu's availability and its commands.

The toolbar and context menu support context-invariant and context-sensitive items that can be visible or hidden depending on user action.

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Backend API

<template> <DxFileManager ref="fileManager" :file-system-provider="fileItems" @context-menu-item-click="onItemClick" :height="450" > <DxPermissions :create="true" :copy="true" :move="true" :delete="true" :rename="true" /> <DxItemView :show-parent-folder="false" > <DxDetails> <DxColumn data-field="thumbnail"/> <DxColumn data-field="name"/> <DxColumn data-field="category" caption="Category" :width="95" /> <DxColumn data-field="dateModified"/> <DxColumn data-field="size"/> </DxDetails> </DxItemView> <DxToolbar> <DxItem name="showNavPane" :visible="true" /> <DxItem name="separator"/> <DxItem name="create"/> <DxItem widget="dxMenu" location="before" :options="newFileMenuOptions" /> <DxItem name="refresh"/> <DxItem name="separator" location="after" /> <DxItem name="switchView"/> <DxFileSelectionItem name="rename"/> <DxFileSelectionItem name="separator"/> <DxFileSelectionItem name="delete"/> <DxFileSelectionItem name="separator"/> <DxFileSelectionItem widget="dxMenu" location="before" :options="changeCategoryMenuOptions" /> <DxFileSelectionItem name="refresh"/> <DxFileSelectionItem name="clearSelection"/> </DxToolbar> <DxContextMenu> <DxItem name="create"/> <DxItem text="Create new file" icon="plus" > <DxItem text="Text Document" :options="{ extension: '.txt' }" /> <DxItem text="RTF Document" :options="{ extension: '.rtf' }" /> <DxItem text="Spreadsheet" :options="{ extension: '.xls' }" /> </DxItem> <DxItem name="rename" :begin-group="true" /> <DxItem name="delete"/> <DxItem text="Category" icon="tags" :begin-group="true" > <DxItem text="Work" :options="{ category: 'Work' }" /> <DxItem text="Important" :options="{ category: 'Important' }" /> <DxItem text="Home" :options="{ category: 'Home' }" /> <DxItem text="None" :options="{ category: '' }" /> </DxItem> </DxContextMenu> </DxFileManager> </template> <script> import { DxFileManager, DxPermissions, DxToolbar, DxContextMenu, DxItem, DxFileSelectionItem, DxItemView, DxDetails, DxColumn, } from 'devextreme-vue/file-manager'; import { fileItems } from './data.js'; export default { components: { DxFileManager, DxPermissions, DxToolbar, DxContextMenu, DxItem, DxFileSelectionItem, DxItemView, DxDetails, DxColumn, }, data() { return { fileItems, newFileMenuOptions: this.getNewFileMenuOptions(), changeCategoryMenuOptions: this.getChangeCategoryMenuOptions(), }; }, methods: { onItemClick({ itemData, viewArea, fileSystemItem }) { let updated = false; const extension = itemData.options ? itemData.options.extension : undefined; const category = itemData.options ? itemData.options.category : undefined; if (extension) { updated = this.createFile(extension, fileSystemItem); } else if (category !== undefined) { updated = this.updateCategory(category, fileSystemItem, viewArea); } if (updated) { this.$refs.fileManager.instance.refresh(); } }, createFile(fileExtension, directory = this.$refs.fileManager.instance.getCurrentDirectory()) { const newItem = { __KEY__: Date.now(), name: `New file${fileExtension}`, isDirectory: false, size: 0, }; if (!directory.isDirectory) { return false; } let array = null; if (!directory.dataItem) { array = this.fileItems; } else { array = directory.dataItem.items; if (!array) { array = []; directory.dataItem.items = array; } } array.push(newItem); return true; }, updateCategory(newCategory, directory, viewArea) { let items = null; if (viewArea === 'navPane') { items = [directory]; } else { items = this.$refs.fileManager.instance.getSelectedItems(); } items.forEach((item) => { if (item.dataItem) { item.dataItem.category = newCategory; } }); return items.length > 0; }, getNewFileMenuOptions() { return { items: [ { text: 'Create new file', icon: 'plus', items: [ { text: 'Text Document', options: { extension: '.txt', }, }, { text: 'RTF Document', options: { extension: '.rtf', }, }, { text: 'Spreadsheet', options: { extension: '.xls', }, }, ], }, ], onItemClick: this.onItemClick, }; }, getChangeCategoryMenuOptions() { return { items: [ { text: 'Category', icon: 'tags', items: [ { text: 'Work', options: { category: 'Work', }, }, { text: 'Important', options: { category: 'Important', }, }, { text: 'Home', options: { category: 'Home', }, }, { text: 'None', options: { category: '', }, }, ], }, ], onItemClick: this.onItemClick, }; }, }, }; </script>

import { createApp } from 'vue'; import App from './App.vue'; createApp(App).mount('#app');

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export const fileItems = [{ name: 'Documents', isDirectory: true, category: 'Work', items: [{ name: 'Projects', isDirectory: true, category: 'Work', items: [{ name: 'About.rtf', isDirectory: false, size: 1024, }, { name: 'Passwords.rtf', isDirectory: false, category: 'Important', size: 2048, }], }, { name: 'About.xml', isDirectory: false, size: 1024, }, { name: 'Managers.rtf', isDirectory: false, size: 2048, }, { name: 'ToDo.txt', isDirectory: false, size: 3072, }], }, { name: 'Images', isDirectory: true, category: 'Home', items: [{ name: 'logo.png', isDirectory: false, size: 20480, }, { name: 'banner.gif', isDirectory: false, size: 10240, }], }, { name: 'System', isDirectory: true, category: 'Important', items: [{ name: 'Employees.txt', isDirectory: false, category: 'Important', size: 3072, }, { name: 'PasswordList.txt', isDirectory: false, category: 'Important', size: 5120, }], }, { name: 'Description.rtf', isDirectory: false, size: 1024, }, { name: 'Description.txt', isDirectory: false, size: 2048, }];