Menu system

From Project Auriga

Menus are constructed from the Menu table. Each view with a menu has a "menu name", and querying the table with this name gets all the menu items for that menu. Some of the other fields need explanation/definition:

Contents 1 Menu 2 Label 3 Link 4 Type 5 Parent_id 6 indx 7 user_group

[edit] Menu

The name of the menu this item belongs to

[edit] Label

What to show on the link/menu item

[edit] Link

Null if this link is a group, or the URL to open.

[edit] Type

The method to open. Depends on menu type, and module.

Main menu options:

• tab
• new (new page)
• show_help
• show_toolbox
• toolbox
• pane
• parent
• load_children (dynamic)

[edit] Parent_id

Always "0" for top level items. Otherwise id of parent menu item.

[edit] indx

Simple default sort column

[edit] user_group

Main user group that can use this menu item.