Click actions

Right-click menus (contextMenu)

Add contextMenu when a single click isn't enough: you want a menu of several actions on one element, like drilling into one row while linking out or exporting from another.

What you can do

contextMenu.actions is an array of at least one action mixing six kinds: filter, drill, link, copy, export, and openOverlay.
Every action requires type and label; link additionally requires a url starting with https://, mailto:, or tel:, with {token} values URI-encoded.
link takes target: tab or self; copy takes copy: value (default), row, or a field name, and runs client-only.
export takes format: csv or json and scope: row or result; openOverlay requires targetPage and takes present, size, and side.
A when: {field} clause shows an action only for datums that carry that field.
A table column can carry its own contextMenu whose actions merge below the panel's; contextMenu works on every panel type.

contextMenu is available on every panel type, including filter, filter-bar, container, and layout panels that onClick cannot use.

Spec

View spec

{
  "id": "top-customers",
  "type": "chart:bar:horizontal",
  "title": "Top customers",
  "data": {
    "query": "SELECT customer, SUM(amount) AS revenue FROM orders GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC LIMIT 10"
  },
  "spec": {
    "categoryField": "customer",
    "valueField": "revenue"
  },
  "contextMenu": {
    "actions": [
      {
        "type": "drill",
        "label": "Drill into {category}",
        "targetPage": "customer-detail",
        "param": "customer",
        "valueFrom": "category",
        "valueType": "string"
      },
      {
        "type": "link",
        "label": "Open in CRM",
        "url": "https://crm.example.com/accounts/{category}",
        "target": "tab"
      },
      {
        "type": "copy",
        "label": "Copy row",
        "copy": "row"
      },
      {
        "type": "export",
        "label": "Export result (CSV)",
        "format": "csv",
        "scope": "result"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The four contextMenu.actions mix a drill, an external link, a client-side copy, and a CSV export in one menu.

Try it live

Open the pipeline-control-room template in the Builder

Open pipeline-control-room and right-click a row of the deals table, cr-table, to see a six-action context menu: two openOverlay actions, filter, link, copy, and export.

Build it in dvt

Every interaction on this site is a few lines of the same declarative JSON spec. Read the full spec format, or connect an AI agent to your warehouse and build one live in the quickstart.

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