SAIF.Business.Menu overview

Documentation context: Packaged Component (NuGet)

SAIF.Business.Menu is the shared business-layer component that models menu pages, menu items, favorites, security-group assignments, and user-to-group memberships for the legacy SAIF presentation stack. Its primary responsibility is to return the authorized navigation menu for a caller by combining menu structure, security-group membership, public items, and favorites into a single read model.

Purpose

• Provide the persisted menu definition used by presentation callers to render navigation.
• Compute each user's authorized menu from MENU_ITEM, MENU_SECURITY, MENU_SECURITY_USER, and MENU_FAVORITE.
• Support maintenance of lookup data, pages, items, favorites, and security-group assignments without owning any HTTP or UI concerns.

Responsibilities

• Persist application-code and category reference data.
• Persist page definitions and menu items, including per-page flags and tooltips.
• Persist menu-item security-group assignments and user-to-group memberships.
• Return authorized menu projections and filtered views such as favorites and secured items.

Key components

• clsMenuAuthorizedItemCollection: builds the authorized menu.
• clsMenuItem and clsMenuSecurityCollection: maintain items and their security groups.
• clsMenuFavorite: stores per-user favorites and order.
• clsMenuPage, clsApplicationCode, and clsMenuCategoryCode: supply lookup and page metadata.
• clsMenuSecurityUser: stores user-to-group memberships.

Related documentation

• Index
• Architecture
• Dependencies
• Operations and processes
• Business rules
• Security and authorization
• Database tables
• SQL catalog
• API reference

Sources

• SAIF.Business.Menu\clsMenuAuthorizedItemCollection.vb
• SAIF.Business.Menu\clsMenuItem.vb
• SAIF.Business.Menu\clsMenuFavorite.vb
• SAIF.Business.Menu\clsMenuPage.vb
• SAIF.Business.Menu\\SAIF.Business.Menu.vbproj
• SAIF.BOF.Presentation.Web.Infragistics103.nuspec