To change the links in the application bar of a self-service
application, you must configure a property in the presentation.xml file
for the application. You can configure these links for a self-service
application that you duplicated from an existing application or for
a new self-service application that you create.
About this task
When you configure the appbarlinks
property,
any existing links that are found in the database are ignored, and
only the customized links are displayed.
Procedure
- Open the application in the Application Designer.
- Select the Export System XML option
in the Select Action menu.
- Save the XML file to a local directory and open it in a
text editor.
- Search for the
appbar
tag in the XML file.
- Add
appbarlinks=" "
to the appbar
tag
to add the navigation menu to the application bar control.
- Insert the links, separated by semicolons.
- For each link, you can specify up to three attributes,
separated by commas.
- ID of the linked application
- Text description to display in the application bar
- Image to display next to the description
For example:
appbarlinks="Application1,Description1,image1.gif:
Application2,Description2,image2.gif"
- Save the changes to the XML file.
- Import the file into the Application Designer to save the
new menu information.