Manage menus

Menus are the basic building blocks of creating custom menu navigation. Custom navigation menus are drop-down menus that group and organize daily tasks together. You can use custom menus in place of, or in addition to, standard menus and record detail tabs. Civic Platform organizes the menu items to display in the order that is most applicable to a specific module or user group. Custom navigation menus display from the Go To menu tab on the upper left side in the detail form portlets where scroll tabs usually display.

When users select a custom navigation menu item from the menu, if the detail tab includes that menu item, the menu item becomes the current tab in the detail tabs. If the detail tabs do not include the menu item, the menu item appears to the right of the detail tabs and becomes the current tab.

To create menus Civic Platform requires a minimum of one menu item and a maximum of 16 menu items. After you add menu items to a menu, you can add the menu to the template menu. After you add the menu to a template menu you can copy/paste it to template menus in other modules or user groups, and then make minor modifications to fit specific user needs.