Customizing the Left Menu

Prior to customizing your left menu, we advise you to read the section Publishing Business Objects describing how to configure Business Objects and adding them as individual nodes in the left navigation frame.

Adding a Left Menu Item from the Left Menu Page

To add a Left Menu item, you have two choices. You can either configure the entire menu item first within Business Foundation or you can add an empty container by clicking the Add button and then go back to Business Foundation to fill in the page contents (objects).

A new window will pop up for publication settings.

1. Select a Display Region from the navigation three on the left. Click on the nodeA node is a grouping of purchasable products. Same as "category". you want Contract to be placed under. For example, Contract will be placed on the rootIn a file system divided into folders; the root is the parent of all the folders. Despite being called the root, it is generally found at the top of the structure. level of Customer Management.
2. The Display Text defaults to the system name of the Business Object. You can choose to keep the name or change it.
3. Enter in an Item Link, an URLUniform Resource Locator. Also known as a web address, for example http://world.episerver.com. to a page. When the object is clicked, a new window will appear on the right based on the given link.
4. The Display Order defaults to 10000. You can keep it at that number or change the value to determine the position of the node.
5. Access Permissions is auto-populated only when a menu is created through the Business Foundation. When creating a new left menu from scratch, you may leave this field blank or otherwise copy in permissions from other existing menus. If you want to change Access Permissions, refer to the Permissions section.
6. An Item Icon can be uploaded to represent the node. Click Browse to upload an icon.
7. Once all relevant information is entered, click on Publish.

To verify if the object was published, go to the Display Region where you specified the object to be published to. Click on the Refresh icon on the left navigation frame if at first you do not see the new node.

Editing, Ordering, or Deleting a Left Menu Item

To Edit a user1. The number of unique IP adresses that visited this page/URL during a specified period. 2. A person using a product, or someone visiting a community website either anonymously or as a registered member.-generated node in the left menu, click on the Notepad icon.

If the left menu item was created via the Left Menu page, this popup window will appear.

If the left menu item node was created using Business Foundation, this popup appears.

To change the sort order of the left menu item, adjust the numerical value in Display Order. The lower the value, the higher the position of the item within the navigation tree relative to items with a higher Display Order value.

To save changes, click OK.

To delete a left menu item, click on X icon.

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