Custom menus are variations of standard menus that reflect the needs of your installation. Assign custom menus to users according to their job function. The menus determine which programs users can access.
You can create custom menus by copying subsets of the standard menus that come with Eclipse, or you can modify an existing menu and build your menu from scratch.
After you create a custom main menu, assign it in User Maintenance as the root menu for the appropriate users. If you create a custom submenu, assign it to a menu to which the users you created it for have access.
Note: Any menu you create using Menu Maintenance is available in Eterm and Solar if the menu is setup to work in both interfaces. However, for a menu option to work in Eterm, it must have an Eterm program name, and for it to work in Solar, it must have a Java Program and Class.
To create a custom menu with standard Eclipse Menus:
From the System > System Files > User Control menu, select Menu Maintenance to display the Menu Maintenance window.
On the right side of the window, click New to create a new menu, enter an ID for the menu at the prompt, and click OK.
Name the menu so you can identify it later when assigning it to your users or adding it to other menus. For example, if you are creating a menu for your counter personnel, you might name the menu CTR.MAIN.
To modify an existing custom menu, select the menu ID in the Menu field to display the details of the existing menu.
To limit the list from which you search to only the top-level menus, click the Select from top-level menus onlycheck box.
In the Main Menus list, select the menu or window you want to add to your menu and either drag and drop it to the Menu Detail for your custom menu, or click Add.
If you selected a menu, the 
entire
contents of the menu is added to your custom menu.
This includes all the submenus under a menu as well as the titles and
shortcut keys for each menu option. To view the menu names as they display
in the Eterm interface, select View >
View Eterm Titles.
Important:
You cannot modify a main menu or the windows available under a
main menu, because you lose your changes each time your system
is upgraded. For information about using a main menu as a starting
point and then modifying its contents, see Editing
Standard Menu Contents Within Custom Menus.
You can rename individual window options if you added them separately
and they are not a part of main menu.
Continue adding menus or windows, and add additional menu options, as necessary, including Report Writer reports, mass loads, G/L reports, or custom programming.
From the File menu, select Save to save your custom menu.
The custom menu is now available for selection in the Main Menus list to search for only menus that call other menus.
See Also:
Editing Standard Menu Contents Within Custom Menus
