This transaction is used to define / change any menu in the system.
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Description of Page
Enter a meaningful, unique Menu Name.
Owner indicates if this menu line is owned
by the base product or by your implementation (Customer Modification). The system
sets the owner to Customer Modification when you add a menu line. This information is display-only.
The Flush Menu button is used to flush
the cached menu items so you can see any modified or newly created
menus. Refer to Caching Overview for more information.
Menu Type defines how the menu is used.
You have the following options:
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Admin is one of
the menus that appears in the Application Toolbar. It is a special
type of menu because admin menu items
can be grouped alphabetically or by functional group. Refer to the
description of Admin Menu Order on Installation Options - Framework for more information about
admin menu options.
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Context refers to
a context
menu.
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Main is another
menu that appears in the Application Toolbar that is simply titled
Menu
.
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Page Action Menu defines buttons that appear in the Page Title Area.
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Submenu defines
a menu group that appears when an Application Toolbar menu is selected.
for the Admin menu, this is only visible when it's organized functionally.
- Enter User Menu refers to the menu items that appear on the user menu; for
example, User Preferences.
Description provides a description of the
menu. Note that this is not the text used when displaying a menu option.
Sequence is only enabled for the Main and Admin menu types.
The grid contains a summary of the menu's lines. Besides the standard
add and delete icons available in a grid, the following information
is displayed:
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Menu Line ID is the unique identifier of
the line on the menu. This information is display-only. Before the
menu line id is a Go To icon that allows a user to drill into the
Menu Items for the displayed menu line.
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Sequence is the relative position of the
line on the menu. Note, if two lines have the same Sequence, the system organizes the lines alphabetically (based on the Long Label, which is defined on the next tab).
Note: An
implementation may override the sequence of a base product owned menu
line. Also note that the sequence is defined on the menu line language
table, allowing for different orders to be used for different languages
(or to let the menu be sorted alphabetically in one language and in
a specified order in a different one).
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Navigation Option / Submenu contains information
about the line's items. If the line's item invokes a submenu, the
submenu's unique identifier is displayed. If the line's item(s) invoke
a transaction, the description of the first item's navigation option is displayed.
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Long Label is the verbiage that appears
on the menu line.
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Item Count is the number of menu items
on the line.
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Owner indicates if this menu line is owned
by the base product or by your implementation (Customer Modification). The system
sets the owner to Customer Modification when you add a menu line. This information is display-only.
Note:
Adding menu lines to base owned menus. An implementation
may choose to add custom menu lines along with its menu item (or items)
to a base owned menu.
Refer to the description of Menu Items for how to add items to a menu line.
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