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Creating Menus with the Navigation Pane Designer

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

There are two ways to create a new menu:

In addition, you can edit the menus that you receive from your solution provider.

Note

When you receive an upgraded menu suite from your solution provider, a menu that you create (including a menu based on a copy of an original menu) will not be upgraded automatically at all, while the original menus will be upgraded to some extent, even if you have modified them. See: How Upgrades Affect Your Menus.

To Create a Menu with the Navigation Pane Designer:

  1. ShowCopy an existing menu

  2. To copy an existing menu:

    1. Right-click the menu button of the menu that you want to copy and then click Copy.

    2. Right-click again and then click Paste. A new menu button will appear, with the same name as the original, and the new menu is displayed.

or

ShowCreate an empty menu

To create an empty menu:

  1. Right-click any menu button and then click Create Menu.

  2. The cursor appears in an edit box. Type the name that you want to give the new menu and then click OK.

The new menu button is inserted below all of the other buttons, and the blank new menu is displayed.

  1. Edit the menu

Now you can assign the menu to users.

Related Topics

Assigning Menus to Users

About Designing Menus for Users

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Navigation Pane



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