Defining Menu Options
This portal is used to define / change any menu in the system. You can access the portal from the
. 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.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.
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).