How to keep "Show in content area" when form is open by menuitem from code?

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On few places in our application we open ListPage in content area. On the address line there is something like "Company/Module/Folder". On that listpages are menuitems which calls class which create menuitem and open the new ListPage form like:

Args args = new Args();
str param = 'Something';
MenuFunction openProjects = new MenuFunction('ListPageName',MenuItemType::Display);

args.parm(param);
openProjects.run(args);

When it called like that the address degenerate to "Company/"

How to keep the location (at least when the same ListPage is just reopen with different parameters)?

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Normally the display of that path depends on parameter "IsDisplayedInContentArea=Yes" on menu but I do not know how to set this in code.

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I need to create MenuItem instead of MenuFunction and set MenuItem.isDisplayedInContentArea msdn.microsoft.com/.../menuitem.isdisplayedincontentarea.aspx Or get the menuitem object from menufunction but do not know how.

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If i understood correctly you want to have the active navigation. whenever you open a list page it should show the full navigation of the particular list page. I think it relates to showparentmodule property on the menu.

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I found it. The Form, Menuitem Action, Menuitem Display, and Class I use must have same name.

May be I should write small blog post about this.

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Your conclusion is wrong, as far as I can say. I can show you a counterexample, where every single name is unique.

But I managed to reproduce the problem and the explanation is simple. It happens if the menu item doesn't exist anywhere in the menu or it's not set up to be used in the content area. How could AX show the menu path if none exists?

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I also see this behavior when the callers args are used instead of creating new Args() like:

public static void main (Args _args) {

MenuFunction openProjects = new MenuFunction('ListPageName',MenuItemType::Display);

_args.param('Something');

openProjects.run(_args);

}

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