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In this lesson, you will learn how to group menu items in the navigation menu.
Adding a Menu Group
In the previous lesson, you learned how to customize menu items in the navigation menu. Up to this point, the navigation menu consists of a single menu group named Tasks. As you add more screens to your application, you may want to group similar screens together to present a more logical view to the user. You can do this by creating new menu groups.
To add a menu group
In Solution Explorer, select the Screens node.
On the Project menu, click Edit Screen Navigation.
The Screen Navigation tab of the Application Designer appears.
In the Application Designer, click the Add Group node.
A new menu group named Group appears.
Select Group and type Product Information, and then press Enter.
With the Product Information node selected, click the Move up button to move it above the Administration node.
Click the Include Screen drop-down list under the Product Information node and select Products.
Right-click the Products node under the Tasks node and then click Delete.
Right-click the Tasks node and click Rename, and then type Customer Management.
Press F5 to run the application and observe the changes. You should see two menu groups. The Customer Management group contains the Contacts and Orders by Customer menu items. The Product Information group contains the Products menu item.
Closer Look
In this procedure you learned how to add a menu group to the navigation menu, reorder groups, move menu items between groups, and rename groups. The process resembles working with menu items.
In some cases, you may want to make a screen available from multiple menu groups. For example, an inventory lookup screen might be useful for an employee working with either customers or products. You do not have to remove a menu item from one group in order to add it to another; a menu item can appear in more than one group.
Next Steps
In the next lesson, you will learn how to change the startup screen.
Next lesson: Setting the Startup Screen
See Also
Tasks
How to: Create Menu Items and Navigation Groups