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Maintain Menus

Overview

This is the reference documentation for the administration menu item: Site Structure→Menu Elements

The use of menus are described here,

Grid Page

The grid shows all menus currently defined for the site. Each record will contain information about the name the menu will have in the site structure tree, the name of the presentation used, and a field stating whether the menu has any menu items defined.

Update

This will start a wizard that is used to update the information about the menu and/or the presentation used by the menu. You can read more about wizards here.

Start page

On the first page you can update the basic information about the menu (name and comment).

Select presentation

On the next page you can change the presentation used by the menu. If you just press Next you will keep the currently selected presentation and go to the next page.

In order to change the presentation press the button "Change presentation". You will then be able to search for presentations by entering your search criteria in the "Search for" field and press the "Find" button.

To select a new presentation press the "Select" button for the presentation you want to use for the menu. This will also take you to the next page.

Confirmation

The last page is a confirmation page. Press Finish to apply your changes or Cancel to discard the changes.

You can also press Back to go back and change the selected/entered values.

Delete

You are not allowed to delete a menu if it is used in the site structure tree.

View

On the view page you will be shown information about the menu - and information about the presentation and the content loader used for loading the menu.

Roles

The Roles button loads the roles maintenance for the menu site element as a pop up window.

Fields

Name

Contains the name of the menu.

Presentation

The name of the presentation currently used.

Has structure

Explains if the menu has any menu items defined.