A menu workspace is a menu collection composed of:

• Themes ;
• Each theme contains one or more menu commands ;
• When the user clicks one of these commands, he can be redirected to:
• A particular page (physical or virtual) within your site;
• An external page (hosted on another site or domain);
• A Menu workspace (that acts here as a sub-menu).

Workspaces are classified by domain … which allows you to manage menus according to the logical architecture of your site (example: public menus, administrative menus, data access menus… and so on)

easySite comes with all necessary elements to manage user interface menus (the public façade of your site) and with all necessary elements to administer your site.
You may examine items delivered with easySite to easily and fully understand menus architecture and items relationships.

To add a new menu command to an existing theme:

• Select the menu domain and workspace containing the desired theme;
• Select the theme;
• In the menu command record, click New ;
• Enter the required record information (display order, parent theme, redirection type and destination…);
• Click update.

To hide all menu commands of a desired theme:

• Select the menu domain and workspace containing the desired theme;
• Select the theme;
• Uncheck the ‘Active’ button;
• Click Update.

Note :
This procedure can also be helpful for preparing new menu commands without having them being displayed into the (public) user interface.

To create a new menu collection:

• Create a new menu domain;
• Create a new menu workspace related to the newly created domain;
• Create menu themes related to the new workspace;
• Create menu commands related to each of the newly created themes;