# Are Nested Menu Items Available?
**URL:** https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349
**Category:** UXP Plugin API
**Created:** [July 22, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349 "2021-07-22T14:03:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@IanBarber](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/IanBarber)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/1 "2021-07-22T14:03:14Z")
On a previous post someone kindly showed a function to run a menu item.
Whay I have found is that this doesnt appear to work for Nested Menu items because the menu item is different on different computers which I find strange.
I am trying to open the Gaussian Blur Dialog which on my Mac has an id of -356 but on a different computer it shows a different id value.
Am I missing something
```auto
function menuCommand(id) {
require('photoshop').core.performMenuCommand({
commandID: id,
kcanDispatchWhileModal: true,
_isCommand: false
});
}
menuCommand( // put menu id here);
```
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### Author:  [@Pierre\_G](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/Pierre_G)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/3 "2021-07-22T14:18:25Z")
You might want to try this, without the use of nested menus, the Gaussian Blur dialog menu pops up. Hope this is what you want.
```auto
const batchPlay = require("photoshop").action.batchPlay;
await batchPlay(
[
{
"_obj": "gaussianBlur",
"radius": {
"_unit": "pixelsUnit",
"_value": 30
},
"_isCommand": true,
"_options": {
"dialogOptions": "display"
}
}
],{
"synchronousExecution": false,
"modalBehavior": "fail"
});
```
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### Author:  [@IanBarber](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/IanBarber)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/4 "2021-07-22T14:24:32Z")
@Pierre_G thats worked fine on my Mac, just going to load Windows and test it.
May I ask how you found this, ive been trying for hours
Ian
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### Author:  [@Pierre\_G](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/Pierre_G)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/5 "2021-07-22T14:28:28Z")
I just used Alchemist in Listening mode, and went to Ps menu for Gaussian Blur on a raster layer, that’s it.
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### Author:  [@IanBarber](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/IanBarber)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/6 "2021-07-22T14:42:32Z")
Well blow me down as we say here in the UK.
I was looking in the wrong place trying hunt down a menu id to use in the above code.
Thank you so much.
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### Author:  [@Pierre\_G](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/Pierre_G)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/7 "2021-07-22T14:44:19Z")
I hear you 🙂 Glad it helps!
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### Author:  [@assitburn](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/assitburn)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/8 "2021-07-22T15:19:06Z")
Strange…
It seems that the menu ids will change after a new version is installed.
In one version it opens the Liquify, in the next it will open Dry Brush…
That is not a good new.
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### Author:  [@Karmalakas](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/Karmalakas)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/9 "2021-07-22T15:43:27Z")
> [@assitburn](#):
>
> It seems that the menu ids will change after a new version is installed
I think I know what I’m doing today after work 😅
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### Author:  [@assitburn](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/assitburn)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/are-nested-menu-items-available/3349/10 "2021-07-23T05:21:07Z")
Yesterday I got the confirmation.
if you have a menu id that is using a “-” befor the number it is not a static one and will change on each release and may be different from a windows to a mac client.
The promise is that the programmer-team has this problem on the roadmap but when this might be no problem any more no one can say…