Creating Custom Menus

Custom menus are variations of standard menus that reflect the needs of your installation. Assign custom menus to users according to their job function. The menus determine which programs users can access.

You can create a custom menu by copying and modifying another menu or you can build it yourself .

Use the following procedures to:

• Create a custom menu from another menu.

• Build a custom menu.

After you create a custom main menu, assign it as the root menu for the appropriate users. If you create a custom submenu, assign it to a menu to which the users for whom you created it have access.

To create a custom menu from another menu:

1. From the System > System Programming menu, select Program Editor to display the Program Editor screen.

2. In the File Name field, enter menus.

3. In the Edit Program field, enter the name of the menu to copy.

For example, to copy the Files menu, enter Files.

4. Use the Copy hot key to display the Menu Copy Prompts screen.

The system populates these prompts with the MENUS file name and the name of the menu being copied.

5. At the to Program prompt, enter the new menu name.

6. At the Do you want to KEEP Current Version sequence? (Y/N) prompt, enter N.

The system replaces the current version number of the copied menu with a 1 for the new menu.

The cursor moves to the unlabeled field of codes on the next line of the Program Editor screen.

7. Enter E (edit) to display the Sub-Menu Maintenance screen.

This screen displays the setup information for the copied menu.

8. Edit the copied menu as described in the Editing Menus topic.

9. Press Esc to save the new menu.

10. Press Esc to exit the Program Editor.

Note: Assign custom menus to users in the Root Menu field in User Maintenance.

To build a custom menu:

1. From the System > System Programming menu, select Program Editor to display the Program Editor screen.

2. In the File Name field, enter menus.

3. In the Edit Program field, enter a new menu name.

Note: For a user-specific custom menu, the new menu name must be &userid& or &useridXX&, where userid is the user ID of the person for whom you are creating this menu and XX is an optional suffix if the user has more than one custom menu.

The cursor moves to the unlabeled field of codes on the next line of the Program Editor screen.

4. Enter E (edit) to display the Sub-Menu Maintenance screen

5. Create a new menu as described in Editing Menus.

6. Press Esc to save the new menu.

7. Press Esc to exit the Program Editor.

Note: Assign custom menus to users in the Root Menu field in User Maintenance.

See Also:

Editing Menus

Creating User-Specific Custom Menus

Custom Menus Overview