Overview

Maintain Portal Menu's allows the administrator to create a menu tree for the organization. The menu can then be deployed to any page within the portal.

Each item in the tree, whether it be a Menu type (that contains sub menu's) or an Item type (that launches an application), is associated with a permission. This allows an individual user's menu to contain only those items related to their specific permission structure.

Operation

Maintain Portal Menu's operates slightly differently from the other Administrator applications. When it first loads it automatically contains all items in the menu's root and any menu item with a type of Menu has a hyperlink on it's caption. 

To maintain the table, click the edit button. The hyper links will disappear and you will be able to add, edit and delete items in the table. Click Ok to save the changes or Cancel to abandon them and the hyper links will reappear.

To edit the children of a Menu item, click it's hyper link. The form will reload and contain the selected item's children. Furthermore the Back button will appear in the toolbar, click the back button to redisplay the parent's menu level.

Column	Description
Menu & Menu ID	The Menu and Menu ID column's shows the menu description and ID, the ID is not editable.
Node & Node ID	These columns show the menu root and ID and these are not editable.
Menu Items Table
ID	The ID column is not editable. When you enter the caption for a new menu item, this ID is automatically set to the next ID in the sequence.
Caption	When the user logs on, this caption appears in the menu outline.
Seq	This determines the sequence of the items as they appear in the user's menu.
Type	A menu item can have the following types: Type Description Menu Menu types can contain sub menu's and therefore have a hyperlink to allow you to display it's children. Item Item types are used to load applications and cannot have children.  WebTools App WebTools App types are used to load applications and cannot have children, when clicked the menu will navigate the frame to display the form defined in the url. EXE When a menu of the type EXE is clicked, the menu will execute the application defined in the URL field.
URL	When a user clicks a menu item, the URL defined in this field is loaded into the application frame. Note that Menu types may also contain URL's. Clicking a Menu type will both hide or display its children and load the URL.
R/Tab	Check this box to display both the Form and Report tab when the URL is loaded. Leave it unchecked to hide both tabs and display only the application frame. This option is only applicable when the Type is WebTools App. It causes the Form and Report tabs to show. Check this option if this links to an Arena report.
Permission	A menu item must be associated with a permission before it can appear in a user's menu. Refer Maintain Permission Names for more details.
Target	This column determines where the application defined in the URL should appear.

 Once the menu has been created it will be available in the Select Menu list of the Arena Menu web part.