Defining Menu Options

This portal is used to define / change any menu in the system. You can access the portal from theAdmin Menu > System > Menu. You are brought to a query portal with options for searching for a specific menu. Once a menu has been selected you are brought to the maintenance portal to view and maintain the selected record.

CAUTION: Updating menus requires technical knowledge of the system. This is an implementation and delivery issue and should not be attempted if you do not have previous experience with menus.
Note: Security and menus. Refer to Application Security for a discussion of how application security can prevent menu items (or an entire menu) from appearing.
Note: Module configuration and menus. Your module configuration can prevent menu items (or an entire menu) from appearing.

The following zones may appear as part of the portal's Main tab page:

  • Menu. This zone provides information about the selected menu.
  • Menu Lines. This zone lists the menu's lines and supports actions to add, edit and delete lines. You may also broadcast a line to review more information about its items configuration.
  • Menu Line Items. This zone lists item information for a selected menu line.

Application security information for the menu can be reviewed and managed from the Application Security tab. The following zones may appear as part of this tab page:

  • Menu Lines. This zone lists the menu's lines. Broadcast a line to review its application security information.
  • Menu Line Security. This zone lists application services related to the selected menu line. You may use this zone to review and configure security access for the selected menu line and a specific user group.
  • Menu Line Security Details. This zone lists the entities secured by a selected application service.

The following zone may appear as part of the portal's References tab page:

  • Menu References. This zone lists entities that reference the selected menu.

The following sections provides more information.

Menu Types

The following types of menus are supported:

  • 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.
  • Main is another menu that appears in the Application Toolbar that is simply titled Menu .
  • 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.
  • Context refers to a context menu.
  • Page Action Menu defines buttons that appear in the Page Title Area.
  • User Menu refers to the menu items that appear on the user menu; for example, User Preferences.

Extending Product Owned Menus

An implementation may choose to add custom menu lines along with its menu item (or items) to a base product owned menu.

Overriding Menu Lines Sequence

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).

Menu Information is Cached

Use theFlush Menu button to flush the cached menu items so you can see any modified or newly created menus. Refer to Caching Overview for more information.