Training:Action names

When declaring Actions in MDriven  you have the option of giving a name (required) and a Presentation (defaults to <Name>).

The reason for the two different properties are that the ActionName must be globally unique for all actions – it is used for presentation of the action and as reference name of the action. The presentation is however the text we use when presenting the action in a contextmenu or in the MDriven Prototype leftside action column.

Since the Presentation often resembles the Name we have introduced the following shorthand/activecontent:

ActionName	Presentation value	Presentation result
Somename	<Name>	Somename
SomeName	<Name>	Some Name
SomeName	Extra1 <Name> Extra2	Extra1 Some Name Extra 2
SomeName	<AsString>	“DefaultStringRep of context object”
SomeName	<Name> <AsString>	Some Name “DefaultStringRep of context object”
SomeName	<AsString:Attribute1>	“Value of attribute1 of context object”
SomeName	Extra1 <Name> Extra2 <AsString:Attribute1> Extra3	Extra1 Some Name Extra 2 “Value of attribute1 of context object” Extra 3

The context object is of course the object that the actions is acting on. So it is intended to be used with “Class actions”.