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Editing Menus with the Navigation Pane Designer

If you are a menu suite administrator, you can use the Navigation Pane Designer to edit menus in the Navigation Pane. If you do not have design permissions, you can personalize your Navigation Pane.

The following procedure describes how to edit an existing menu. It can either be one of the menus that you received from your solution provider, or it can be a menu you created.

To Edit Menus with the Navigation Pane Designer:

  1. Click Tools, Navigation Pane Designer.

  1. Click on the menu button for the menu that you want to edit.

  1. Use right-click menus to access the editing options:

ShowChanging the name of a menu button, menu group or menu item

  1. Right-click the menu button, group or item and then click Rename. The cursor appears in an edit box.

  2. Type the name as you want it to appear. Press Enter to apply the change.

ShowCreating a new menu group or inserting a menu item

To create a new menu group:

  1. Right-click an item in the menu group to which you want to add a new group and then click Create Group. The new group appears as the last item within the group.

  2. Type the name of the new menu group. Press Enter to apply the change.

To insert a new menu item:

  1. Right-click an item in the menu group to which you want to add a new item and then click Insert Items....

  2. In the Insert field, place a check mark next to the menu item(s) that you want to add and then click OK. The menu item(s) are added to the menu group.

ShowDeleting a menu group or menu item

To delete a menu item:

To delete a menu group:

ShowMoving a menu button, group or item up or down

To move a menu button, group or item, right-click the button, group or item and then click Move Up or Move Down.  

Note

You can only use this method to move an item within the group where it appears. To move it to another group, use cut and paste.

ShowCopying a menu group from one menu to another

To copy a menu group from one menu to another:

  1. Open the menu with the menu group that you want to copy.

  2. Right-click the menu group and then click Copy.

  3. Click the menu button for the menu where you want to add the menu group.

  4. Right-click in the menu group to which you want to copy the menu group and then click Paste.

The new group appears as the last item within the group.

  1. To leave design mode, click File, Close.

Your changes are saved and will be shown next time you open the Navigation Pane Designer. The changes will be visible to the users when they refresh the Navigation Pane.

(To refresh the Navigation Pane, right-click below the menu buttons and next to the scroll arrows, and then click Refresh)

Related Topics

About Designing Menus for Users

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Navigation Pane

Creating Menus with the Navigation Pane Designer

Assigning Menus to Users

 

 

 



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