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Important: Saved changes for a Site Menu may take some time to appear, about 10-15 minutes.

  1. Log into Drupal.

  2. Click on Workbench, then on Menus

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  1. Workbench then MenusImage Added

  2. Filter for the name of your website section (department) that you want to edit and click Apply.

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  1. An example for music menu.Image Added

  2. Click Edit menu on the right side to make changes to a Site Menu.

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  1. Edit Menu buttonImage Added
  2. You will see a list of menu items

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  1. .

  2. Editing a

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  1. menu item:

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  2. You may Add a link, or Edit an existing link:

    1. To add a new menu item, click the Add linkbutton.

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    2. If you only need to edit an existing Menu item, click on Edit on the right side.

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  1. You will then see a form to you enter information about the menu item. 

  2. Provide a Menu link title, which is what will be displayed.

  3. Type the name of the page in the Link field to autocomplete OR paste a link.

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  1. Editing a Menu LinkImage Added

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  1. If you want to nest a menu item

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  1. underneath a parent item,

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  1. select a Parent link for your menu item (see below).

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  2. Click Save to set the Menu item.
    Important: Saved changes for a Site Menu may take some time to appear, about 10-15 minutes.

  3. To adjust a menu item, drag the menu item into the place you want it to fit, and click Save. 

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  1. Drag a menu item up or down to another location.Image Added

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  1. Menu items may moved into any place in the menu hierarchy.Image Added

  2. Menu Items may also be moved inward, to the right to become a child menu item, underneath of a parent Menu Item. Here, Campus Life menu item was dragged down and inward to the right to become a child item of Resources.

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  1. Move any menu link underneath another parent link.Image Added

  2. Important: Saved changes for a Site Menu may take some time to appear, about 10-15 minutes.

How to make a drop menu, with a parent menu item that contains other items.

  1. To set a parent item that links to a page, edit the parent menu item or add a new menu item and check Show as expanded.
    If you don't want the parent to link to a page, put <nolink> in the Link field, so only the parent title text appears, without linking to anything.
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    Without For parent items without a page link, the Link field should be <nolink>

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    ”. This is commonly used for parent items that contain a number of child links.

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  2. Click Save.

  3. In your Menu Items list, edit the Menu items you want to be children and set the new Parent link for each child menu item.Image Removed

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  4. Important: Saved changes for a Site Menu may take some time to appear, about 10-15 minutes.

How to make a Menu item open up in a new window

  1. Edit a Menu item in your menu or Add a new Menu link (see above).

  2. In the Edit menu link form, click on the Attributes section to open it.

In the Target menu, select New window (_blank) and click Save.
Your Menu Item link will now open in a new window.
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IMPORTANT - Disable Unpublished Pages:

If you have Unpublished a Drupal web page, please also disable any left Site Menu items that are linked to that page. See Drupal: Unpublish & Archive a Web Page

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If you Unpublish a Drupal web page, please also disable any Site Menu items that are linked to that page. See Drupal: Edit a Site Menu Navigation.

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See Drupal: Edit a Site Menu Navigation

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