User's Manual

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MENUS
Menu Item Manager
How to access
Select Menus [name of the menu] from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla!
installation. For example, if a Menu is called "Main Menu", select Menus Main Menu. Or you can
navigate to the Menu Manager and click on the icon in the Menu Items column.
Description
The Menu Item Manager lists the menu items contained in a menu created using the Menu Manager.
Screenshot
Column Headers
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#. An indexing number automatically assigned by Joomla! for ease of reference.
· Menu Item. The name of the Menu Item.
· Default. Indicator of Default Template.
· Published. Whether the item has been published or not. You can change the Published state by
clicking on the icon in this column.
· Order. The order to display items. If the list is sorted by this column, you can change the order by
clicking the arrows or by entering the sequential order and clicking 'Save Order'. Note that the
display order on a page is set in the Parameters - Advanced section for each Menu Item. If that order
is set to use something other than 'Order' (for example, 'Title - Alphabetical'), then the order value in
this screen will be ignored. If the Menu Item Order parameter is set to use 'Order', then the items will
display on the page based on the order in this screen.
· Access Level. Who has access to this item. Current options are:
o Public. Everyone has access