You customize a menu suite in the Navigation Pane Designer. To
access the various design options, right-click menu buttons, menu
groups, menu items, or anywhere in the content pane area. In
addition to having access to the same design options as an
administrator, you can do the following:
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Create new menu items by specifying object type, object ID,
caption, and multilanguage caption.
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Set Object Type, Object ID, Caption, and CaptionML properties
for a menu item.
MenuSuite Object Levels
A generic MenuSuite object is provided at the MBS level. This
object is changed in various ways before end-users see its content.
These changes are applied at different levels, which have been
categorized as Country/Region, Add-on, Partner, and Company. For
example, the MenuSuite object is changed when the application
requires localization changes. This takes place at the
Country/Region level. As a developer working at a Microsoft
Certified Partner, you customize a MenuSuite object at the Partner
level. You can also configure a MenuSuite object at the Company
level, which is the level that administrators work on. When
designing a MenuSuite object, the header area of the Navigation
Pane Designer displays text to indicate the level that you are
working on.
Changes that are made to a MenuSuite object are stored as the
differences between the previous MenuSuite object level and the
current one. For example, when a company administrator configures a
MenuSuite object at the Company level, the modifications are stored
as the differences between the Company level and the Partner level,
which was the previous level. If you export a MenuSuite object in
text format and then open the text file, you will see information
about the changes that you have made in comparison with the
previous level. For more information about exporting a MenuSuite
object, see Exporting a MenuSuite
Object.
There can only be one MenuSuite object for each level, with the
exception of the Add-on MenuSuite object, for which there can be a
maximum of 10 instances.
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