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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

    Workbench then Menus

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

    An example for music menu.

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

    Edit Menu button

  5. You will see a list of menu items.

  6. Editing a menu item:

    e-edit-testing-menu.png

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

    1. To add a new menu item, click the “Add link” button.

      e-add-link-button.jpg

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

      Edit Button

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

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

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

    Editing a Menu Link

  11. If you want to nest a menu item underneath a parent item, select a Parent link for your menu item (see below).

    Parent link dropdown menu

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

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

    Drag a menu item up or down to another location.

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

  14. 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.

    Move any menu link underneath another parent link.

  15. 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. For parent items without a page link, the Link field should be “<nolink>”. This is commonly used for parent items that contain a number of child links.

    Add nolink if you do not want to provide a link.

  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.

    Parent link

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

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

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.

The Site Menu item that corresponds to the Unpublished web page.

See Drupal: Edit a Site Menu Navigation

In your Site Menu, uncheck the Enabled checkbox for the page(s) you've Unpublished.
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