The easiest way to create a command bar commanding UI for a schedule view is to use the NScheduleViewWithCommandBars widget or if you are not creating a cross-platform application - drop an NScheduleViewWithCommandBarsControl to a form/window using the Visual Studio Designer. You can then use the following approaches to modify the command bars:

1. Hiding Menus and Toolbars

To hide a command bar or a command bar item use the corresponding Get... method of the NScheduleViewWithCommandBars or NScheduleViewWithCommandBarsControl class and set its Visibility property to Collapsed:

• GetMainMenu - gets the main menu bar.  When you get the menu bar, you can use it's FindMenuDropDownByText method to get a specific menu drop down. Then if you want to hide a specific menu item from the drop down menu, you can use the Items.FindByText method of the menu item, but if the menu item does not contain sub menu items, it's better to use the RemoveCommands method discussed in the next section.
• GetTooBar - gets a toolbar with a given name.
• GetStatusBar - gets the status bar.

The following code snippet hides the "View" menu and the "View" toolbar:

// Hide the "View" menu drop down
nScheduleViewWithCommandBarsControl1.GetMainMenuBar().FindMenuDropDownByText(NScheduleCommandBarBuilder.MenuViewName).Visibility = ENVisibility.Collapsed;

// Hide the "View" toolbar
nScheduleViewWithCommandBarsControl1.GetToolBar(NScheduleCommandBarBuilder.ToolbarViewName).Visibility = ENVisibility.Collapsed;

2. Removing Commands

To hide all widgets associated with specific commands from the commanding UI, use the RemoveCommands method of the schedule view with command bars. For example, the code snippet below removes the Open and Save commands and hides the widgets associated with them from the File menu:

NScheduleViewWithCommandBars scheduleWithCommandBars = new NScheduleViewWithCommandBars();
scheduleViewWithCommandBars.RemoveCommands(NScheduleView.OpenCommand, NScheduleView.SaveCommand, NScheduleView.SaveAsCommand);

You can also create schedule command bars using the NScheduleCommandBarBuilder. This gives you greater flexibility and more ways to customize the NOV Schedule command bars, including an option to add custom commands to the command bars:

NScheduleCommandBarBuilder commandBarBuilder = new NScheduleCommandBarBuilder();
NCommandUIHolder scheduleWithCommandBars = commandBarBuilder.CreateUI(scheduleView);

1. Modifying Builder Collections

If you want to remove a given toolbar or menu from the builders, you can easily do so by using the Remove method of the ToolBarBuilders and MenuDropDownBuilders collection of the schedule command bar builder respectively. You can get or remove builders by name.

The names of all schedule menu and toolbar builders are exposed as constants in the NScheduleCommandBarBuilder class. For example, to remove the "File" menu and the "Standard" toolbar of a command bars based schedule UI, you can use the following piece of code:

commandBarBuilder.MenuDropDownBuilders.Remove(NScheduleCommandBarBuilder.MenuFileName);
commandBarBuilder.ToolBarBuilders.Remove(NScheduleCommandBarBuilder.ToolbarStandardName);

In order to add or insert your own toolbar or menu drop down builder, you can use the Add or Insert methods of the corresponding builder collection respectively.

commandBarBuilder.MenuDropDownBuilders.Insert(1, new CustomMenuBuilder());
commandBarBuilder.ToolBarBuilders.Insert(0, new CustomToolBarBuilder());

2. Removing commands

To hide all widgets associated with specific commands from the commanding UI, use the RemoveCommands method of the command UI holder created by the command bar builder. For example, the code snippet below removes the Open and Save commands and hides the widgets associated with them from the File menu:

NScheduleCommandBarBuilder commandBarBuilder = new NScheduleCommandBarBuilder();
NCommandUIHolder scheduleViewWithCommandBars = commandBarBuilder.CreateUI(scheduleView);
scheduleViewWithCommandBars.RemoveCommands(NScheduleView.OpenCommand, NScheduleView.SaveCommand, NScheduleView.SaveAsCommand);

3. Custom Menu Builders

To create a custom menu builder, you should create a class, which inherits NMenuDropDownBuilder:

public class CustomMenuBuilder : NMenuDropDownBuilder
{
    public CustomMenuBuilder()
        : base("Custom Menu")
    {
    }

    protected override void AddItems(NMenuItemCollection items)
    {
        // Add the "Add Appointment" menu item
        items.Add(CreateMenuItem(Nevron.Nov.Schedule.NResources.Image_Edit_AddAppointment_png,
            NScheduleView.AddAppointmentCommand));

        // Add the custom command menu item
        items.Add(CreateMenuItem(NResources.Image_Ribbon_16x16_smiley_png, CustomCommand));
    }
}

4. Custom Toolbar Builders

To create a custom toolbar builder, you should create a class, which inherits the NToolBarBuilder:

public class CustomToolBarBuilder : NToolBarBuilder
{
    public CustomToolBarBuilder()
        : base("Custom Toolbar")
    {
    }

    protected override void AddItems(NCommandBarItemCollection items)
    {
        // Add the "Add Appointment" button
        items.Add(CreateButton(Nevron.Nov.Schedule.NResources.Image_Edit_AddAppointment_png, NScheduleView.AddAppointmentCommand));

        // Add the custom command button
        items.Add(CreateButton(NResources.Image_Ribbon_16x16_smiley_png, CustomCommand));
    }
}

To replace the original "Standard" toolbar builder with the custom one, use the following code:

NScheduleCommandBarBuilder commandBarBuilder = new NScheduleCommandBarBuilder();
int toolbarIndex = commandBarBuilder.ToolBarBuilders.IndexOf(NScheduleCommandBarBuilder.ToolbarStandardName);
commandBarBuilder.ToolBarBuilders[toolbarIndex] = new CustomStandardToolbar();

To see how to define a custom command and a custom command action, take a look at the Schedule Commanding Overview topic.

Commanding