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Menu


This dialog is used by components creating menus. By filling selecting different ways of filling the menu, the component will contain various items.

Menu Filling Options Tab

Fill the menu with...:

This is where you select how to fill your menu. Possible selections are:

Children to a selected document

Creates the menu using the children to a specified document. The document is selected by clicking the Select Button which will open a dialog for selecting a document.

Children to current document

Creates the menu using the children of the current document. The current document will depend on which document is used. This allows for a dynamic way to use menus, since the same menu component will look different for each document.

Children to document at specified level in current document path

The menu will be filled with the document structure from the start level (specified in the edit field) and below in relation to the current document. The Root of the Content Tree is regarded as level 1.

 

This filling option is very useful when creating sub menus which can be used by all documents, but only displays something when there actually exists children to the current document.

Siblings to current document

Creates a menu containing all siblings (documents at the same level) to the current document, with the option of including the current one too.

Siblings to parent of current document

This works the same way as the previous one, but instead of using the current document, its parent is used.

Path to current document

This filling option creates a menu containing all parents to the current document up to, but not including the Content Root. An option of including the current document to the list is also available.

Related documents to current document

Creates a menu using the list of related documents associated with the current document. This is very useful when creating "see also"-menus.

Documents in a selected document group

Uses the documents in a document group to create the menu. The document group used is selected by picking one from the drop-down list. If no document groups have been created for this project, this method can not be used.

Text on main menu items

This field determines which text that will appear on the menu items. Any strings including fields can be used. The default value is {Document Title} which will result in each menu item having the title of itself as the text.

Text on sub menu items

This field determines which text that will appear on the menu items below the top level. Any strings including fields can be used. The default value is {Document Title} which will result in each menu item having the title of itself as the text.

 

Menu Rendering Settings Tab (GRE)

 

This tab allows you to specify which GRE Styles to use for the buttons when creating the menu. 

Normal:

This GRE Style will be used to create buttons for all menu items that are not referring to the current document.

Selected:

This GRE Style will be used to create buttons for the menu item referring to the current document.

Mouse Over:

This GRE Style will be used to create buttons for all menu items that are not referring to the current document when the mouse is over it. If the GRE Style specified here is the same as for Normal, the mouse over function will not be active.

 

Menu Rendering Settings Tab (Text)

 

This tab allows you to specify which Styles to use when creating the menu. 

Normal:

This Style will be used for all menu items that are not referring to the current document.

Selected:

This Style will be used for the menu item referring to the current document.

Mouse Over:

This Style will be used for all menu items that are not referring to the current document when the mouse is over it. If the Style specified here is the same as for Normal, the mouse over function will not be active.

 


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