Overview:

Defines which pages are viewable and when they are viewable. Also dictates the hiarcy of the pages on the left side of your Provider website. You can create new pages here, but normally the better approach is to first create the page and it will then be added to this section. If a site has not had a custom menu created, it is using the default menu from the site.  To create a custom menu, a default one must be loaded.

 

Open Site Menu

 

When Manage Site Menu is started, it will attempt to locate a custom menu.  If no menu information is found, it will prompt to create a default menu:

 

 

Clicking yes to the prompts, will create a default custom menu that the site will now use.

After the menu is created a default menu will be shown:

 

 

This tree is a hierarchical representation of the menu shown on the site.  With an icon showing the type of visibility of the button to the site. As it is indicated on the page visibility is as follows:

The icon indicates that the menu button is visible to all users (guest and logged-in) of the site.

The icon indicates that the menu button is only visible to logged-in users of the site.

The icon indicates that the menu button is not visible on the site.

 

Additionally the text color will indicate the type of menu mutton.  Green indicates that the menu item is a permanent required button. Blue indicates this is a published page, created and published using the pages editor.

 

Right clicking on a menu item will open the context menu for that menu item.

From this menu you can add a new menu item, edit this menu item, or delete this menu item.

New - Root

A new menu item placed at the root (farthest left in the editor) can be created here.  Clicking this item will open the menu item editor:

A title for the menu item should be added.  A url can be added if the button is to start a specific page, or navigate to a specific location.  Visibility should also be set from the combo box:

 

New - Sibling

A new menu item will be placed below the item selected.  If the item is selected is a root item, the new item will be below the item selected at the root level.  

This is shown on the site as:

Clicking this context menu item,  will start the menu item editor as above.

Clicking Update will save the changes, Cancel will abandon the changes made.

New - Child

A new menu item will be placed to the right of the item selected as a child item:

Which is shown on the site as:

Clicking this context menu item,  will start the menu item editor as above.

Clicking Update will save the changes, Cancel will abandon the changes made.

Edit

Edit will allow the user to edit the menu item.  Clicking this context menu item, will start the menu item editor as above.

Clicking Update will save the changes, Cancel will abandon the changes made.

Delete

Delete will delete the menu item selected.  Some items cannot be deleted.

Menu items in green are required items and cannot be deleted.  

Menu items in Blue are site pages.  They cannot be deleted with Menu Editor and must be deleted from the Manage Site pages area.

Menu items with child menu items cannot be deleted.  Child items must be relocated (or removed) before the menu item can be deleted.

The Delete selection will be disabled (greyed out) for items that cannot be deleted.   

 

Changing Order of Menu Items

The order of appearance of menu items can be changed by dragging and dropping menu items.

An icon will appear over the menu item to indicate how the item is placed when dragging it.  A right arrow indicates item will be placed as a child to the item it is over.

 

A down arrow will indicate that the dragged menu item will be placed as a sibling below the item it is dragged over.