Using ContextMenu component in Vaadin Spreadsheet

Flow
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Hi!

We’re using the Spreadsheet flow component and have implemented custom actions that can be executed via the built-in context menu and use cell coordinates to manipulate specific cells. Now we’d like to implement an action that requires a hierarchical context menu. As far as I know that is not directly supported by the context menu that comes built-in with the Spreadsheet component.

My idea is to use the ContextMenu component as a replacement since that one supports hierarchical options natively. I have not found a solution to properly trigger the opening of the ContextMenu in the right position and pass in the cell information though.

Does anybody have any experience with this?

Best regards,
Sebastian

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That can be very tricky. In theory you can fire fabricated contextmenu event with JavaScript, but obtaining the right coordinates can be the actual problem. I have here an example how I am doing this in Grid’s component column. In that case I can get coordinates from the rendered icon. But with Spreadsheet this will be substantially harder.