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The Menu System creates the navigation that gets users around your site.
LibrarySite comes with six default menus of note:
- Main Menu: the primary navigation system that puts links at the top of the site and, where relevant, in the left sidebar.
- Top Right Links Menu: an optional menu for adding functional links such as "My Library Account" or links back to the city if desired.
- Footer Menus 1, 2 and 3: three optional menus that can be used to make the footer something of a site-map or area for quick links to key site sections or informational pages. These menus can be replaced with custom blocks where desired.
- Footer Legal Menu: this menu lives at the bottom of the site, where the site copyright can also be found.
A menu will not display at all if it does not contain any active links.
An overview of where each menu displays on the site:
Adding items to a menu
There are two ways to add any piece of content to a menu:
Option 1: Node form
Some content types, such as a Basic Page, can be added to a menu on the node edit form. To the right of the node form are a set of Vertical Tabs with administration options for the node. The first tab is Menu Settings. Clicking on Menu Settings and checking Provide a menu link will activate fields for choosing the menu link title and location.
Parent item is used to select the location of the menu item. Only menus available to the content type you are editing will be visible in the Parent item list. Use this to place the menu item at the top level of a particular menu, or to make it a sub-link of another menu item.
When the node is saved, the menu settings selected will automatically apply.
Option 2: Menu management
Menus can be managed using the menu management pages, found under Structure -> Menus (at admin/structure/menu). Click on Edit menu to make changes.
The tools here can be used to:
- Manually add menu links to anything, including content outside of your site.
- Edit existing menu links.
- Disable menu links temporarily.
- Reorder menu links.
Remember that any edit or order adjustment must be saved or the change will not be maintained when you navigate away from the edit menu screen.
When editing or adding a menu item:
For more information about what to put in the Path field, see About Adding Links in Formatting Content.
