Overview

This is an example snippet using the free Toolbox Pro Menu Item action to creat rich menu items from Data Jar entries.

Setup

In this example, I created a list of Team Members stored in Data Jar. Team Members is a dictionary and each team member is a dictionary with Keys for First_Name, Last_Name, etc. One of those Keys must be “Photo” with a value for “Photo” in which a file is attached. If there is no entry for Photo for one of the Team Members, there is a base64 encoded default image that will be used. You can use one of a variety of "Merge" shortcuts to insert this snippet into your Shortcut.

Using the Snippet

With this snippet, you can then use that selected item to pull out specific data from Data Jar. In this example, I run the shortcut and choose which Data Jar Key to use (Team Members). This brings up a rich menu with each Team Member and their photo. I then pull out their First Name using a Data Jar Team Members.Selected Team Member.First_Name_ action, but you can do anything you wanted using the selected item.

Updater Info

This snippet uses my TBP Updater snippet (https://routinehub.co/shortcut/5692) for version control. It uses free Toolbox Pro actions and is a lightweight updater from RouteineHub. The Updater ends at Nothing, so you can remote if you prefer another one or none at all.