How to create a contextmenu with mainmenu menuitems

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You can create a menu based on the already existing menu using clonemenu method of menuitem.

If your mainmenuitem is mainmenuitem1, and the contextmenu is contextmenu1, then you can get the menu items in mainmenu to contextmenu using the following code:

Contextmenu1.menuitems.add(mainmenuitem1.Clonemenu)

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