Drupal: Edit a Site Menu (Left Navigation)

How to add or edit a Menu link

• Log into Drupal.

• Click on Workbench, then on Menus
  
  
  

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

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

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

• You will see a list of menu items, or a blank menu if you’re making a new Site Menu.  
  To add a menu item, click “Add link”.
  
  If you only need to edit an existing Menu item, click on Edit on the right side.
  
  
  Editing a menu item:
  
  
  
  

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

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

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

•  If you want to nest a menu item under a parent, choose a Parent link for your menu item (see below).
  
  
  

• Click Save to set the Menu item.
  
  

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

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• 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.
  
  
  
  
  

• 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.
   
   
   

   
   Without a page link, the Link field should be <nolink>

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.
   
   
   
   

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.

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