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The
menu editor allows you to manage menus based on the ITL [menu ...] tag.
These menus are used to control Interchange's UI and for display of
product listings (typically for left-hand navigation).<br>
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<h3>Menu Name</h3>
A list of existing menus is displayed in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Menu name: </span>&nbsp;dropdown. To load one, select it and press <span style="font-weight: bold;">Load</span>. There is a link to manage the files, i.e. delete a menu or download it.<br>
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<h3>Menu Loader -- Single Table</h3>
The menu loader allows you to pre-load a menu from a database table in one of three ways.<br>
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In Category mode, you have two choices of load methods. In the first,
you select a pair of fields; one for the first level, one for the
second level. A tree-based menu is built based on those two fields.<br>
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The combined category method uses a single field to develop the tree.
That field must contain a colon-separated list of categories; i.e. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hand Tools:Hammers</span>. That would be identical in effect to having the <span style="font-weight: bold;">prod_group</span> field equal to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hand Tools</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">category</span> field equal to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hammers</span>. The difference is that you can add arbitrary additional categories and the tree will reflect that.<br>
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<h3><span style="font-weight: bold;">Menu Loader -- Dual Table</span></h3>
This menu loading method allows you to integrate an Interchange 4.8.x menu developed with the Layout Editor. It reads the <span style="font-weight: bold;">cat</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">area</span> tables by default, and develops a menu based on your current settings in that table. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Note: </span>If you change the settings of those tables with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Layout Editor</span>, you must reload the menu.<br>
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<h3>Create from HTML</h3>
If you have an existing piece of HTML that has a list of links, try
pasting it into the text box displayed when an empty menu is loaded. It
will initialize the menu editor.<br>
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