Navigation components

There are several ways that you can integrate a new application into the existing navigation and you can add new navigation components if required.

The Application Designer provides several navigation components that you can modify to add a link to an application, an application tab, or an application popup window.
  • Go To menu
  • Application toolbar
  • Select Action menu
  • Menu templates
  • Application bar menu in self-service applications

Go To menu

The Go To menu lists all of the modules and applications that a user can access. The menu is hierarchical and lists modules at the top level. When the user clicks a module, a submenu lists the applications in that module. When you create an application in the Application Designer, you specify its module and the application name is added under this module in the Go To menu. When you duplicate an application, the new application is added to the same module as the original application.

The contents of the Go To menu are generated automatically and you cannot customize them in the Application Designer.

Application toolbar

The application toolbar contains buttons that are arranged in a horizontal line at the top of the application window. You can add new buttons to the toolbar and modify existing ones in the Application Designer. Buttons can be specific to the toolbar in one application tab, or can be visible in all tabs.

Button images are stored in the images directory and you can add new images or reuse existing images.

Select Action menu

The Select Action menu lists application-specific actions. You can add new options to the Select Action menu and modify its existing options in the Application Designer.

Menu templates

You can reuse the code for existing menus as a template for a new menu, Use the Application Designer to export the menus.xml file, modify the file in a text editor, and then import the updated file back into the Application Designer.

You can use the XML code for any of the menus in the menus.xml file as a template for a new menu.

Application bar menu

Self-service applications do not have a Go To menu and provide access to applications in a menu at the top of the application window. You can export the presentation.xml file to add a navigation property to the application bar of a self-service application. If you customize the application bar menu, any preconfigured links are ignored.