Adding a menu to a menu

You can use the Menu Manager to add a menu to an existing menu.

About this task

When you add one menu to another menu, the actions from the menu are inserted into the parent menu. You can add separators to the resulting menu to provide a visual separation (in the pop-up menu) between actions that are contributed from different menus.

Procedure

To add a menu to an existing menu, complete the following steps:

  1. Click Window (on Windows) or IBM® Developer for z/OS® (on macOS) > Preferences.
    The Preferences window opens.
  2. In the Preferences window, double-click Menu Manager, and select Actions and Menus.
    The Actions and Menus preference window opens.
  3. In the Menus tab, right-click the menu that you want to add a menu to and select Add Menus from the pop-up menu.
    The Menu Selection window opens, listing all of the available menus that you can add to the selected menu.
  4. Select the checkbox for each menu that you want to add to the existing menu, or, to select all of the available menu elements, click Select All.
  5. To add the selected menus to the existing menu, click OK.
    The selected menus display within the existing menu in the Menus tab.
  6. To preview the resulting menu, right-click the menu and select Preview. Right-click anywhere in the Preview window to display the menu.
  7. To save your selections and close the Preferences window, click OK.