Menu & Navigation in ONEWEB

ONEWEB follows a hierarchical navigational structure. Using ONEWEB you can link entities or pages to your application using the Menu Configuration screen.

Select the hierarchical position of your menu item and click on the icon. It opens the Menu Properties screen.

The purpose of each property in the configuration screen is given in the below table

Property	Mandatory	Default	Description
Menu ID	Yes	System Generated	It is the system generated ID for the Menu and cannot be modified.
Description	Yes		It is Menu Name displayed on the Menu Screen.
Sequence	Yes		The sequence in which to show this menu item.
Mapping	No		To select the entity to be shown on click of the Menu. Use only when you want to link an entity to the menu. Once you select the Entity you also need to select the mode in which to open the entity from the next list box. You can open an Entity from a Menu in either SEARCH mode or INSERT mode
Action URL	Yes		The URL to be executed on click of the Menu. If the menu is linked to an entity, you can select the entity in the mapping field and click on Generate button to generate the url in this field. But for linking to anything else user needs to input the URL here.
Reference	Yes	System Generated	This field points to the parent menu for the menu item and cannot be modified.
Type	Yes	LABEL	The type of action to be loaded on click of a menu. The two options are LABEL & PAGE. LABEL is used to mark a parent menu. If you mark a menu as type LABEL, on click of it the menu expands to show the child menu items. If a menu is marked as a page, on click of the menu system will load the URL defined for that menu.
Action Target	Yes	mainframe	To define the frame that is to be loaded with the response from URL. Two options are mainframe & mainheader.
Menu Level	Yes	System Generated	If shows the level of the current menu item in the full menu hierarchy. It is system generated and cannot be modified.

Enter the details of your menu item properties. Click OK. On the Menu Configuration screen click on Save Menu, logout of ONEWEB and login. Your menu item is ready to use.