This screen displays the properties of this Menu Item.
Menu Item Name |
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Menu Item Name: | The name of the menu item that will appear as the label on the Menu that your website Visitors will either hover over or click into. |
Link Menu Item To |
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Page: | The Page on your website that the Menu item will link too. TIP: Be sure this is a Page in a Folder with the appropriate access for all Visitors that view the Menu. |
Enable Security: |
Check this if you only want this Menu Item to appear if the Visitor has access to view the Page you have selected above. For example, if you want to add a staff link to the main Menu for your site, but you only want the link to appear for staff members, then check this feature. Even though you may generally want to hide Menu Items from Visitors who do not have access to them, there are some situations where you might want the Visitor to see the Menu Item. For example, you might have a members link that allows Visitors to access the members area or register as a Member. A members link might also allow you to show off your membership features to all Visitors in order to encourage them to become Members. Please be aware that even if you leave security disabled for the Menu Item, the access control on the Page still remains intact. In other words, once the Visitor clicks to the Page, the normal access control checks will be done at that time (e.g. Visitor must login/register to become a Member). You should only enable this feature if you are sure you need it, because it requires extra processing during each page view. For example, don't enable this feature for Pages with public, registration, or guest access control. For those types of access control, the Menu Item will be displayed regardless of this setting, because the Visitor has the ability to gain access to them. If you enable this feature and the Menu Item does not appear, then its child Menu Items will also not appear. This means that you do not have to check this feature for all child Menu Items. This feature only works if you have selected a Page from the pick list. It will not work if you enter a URL, even if the URL is a local URL to this website (e.g. /pages/example). Also, this feature does not currently work for links to Files. |
URL: | Any fully-qualified URL, like: http://www.MyOtherWebsite.com. TIP: If you want to create a link to a downloadable File on your website, view the File and place the link to the File here, like: http://www.MyWebsite.com/files/MyFile.pdf. Be sure this is a File in a Folder with the appropriate access for all Visitors that view the Menu. |
Target Window for Menu Item Link |
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Link Target: | This is where the system will launch the link to the Page or URL. Same Window means that the link will open in the Visitor's current browser window. New Window means that the link will open in the Visitor's browser as a new window or tab. |
Parent Menu Item |
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Parent Menu Item: | If this Menu Item is in a multi-level menu, then specify what other Menu
Item will be it's parent. NOTE: This value is ignored if this Menu Item is not in a multi-level Menu. |