Menu Layout Page

This section describes the fields and configuration options on the Menu Layout page.

Note

To open this page, go to (default menu) Role Management > Menu Layouts, then click on an existing menu layout to edit it (or to clone it to create a new record based on an existing menu layout), or click the Plus icon (+) on the toolbar to add a new menu layout.

Title Field Name Description
Name name Mandatory. The name of the menu layout.
Description description A description of the menu layout.
Menu Items menu_items The list of menu items and -sub items that belong to the menu layout.

Menu Items

The table describes configuration options for the menu items on the Menu Layouts page:

Title Field Name Description
Title title The menu item title as it will show on the menu.
Condition   Allows you to display/hide a menu and its sub-menus based on a condition specified in the macro. If the macro evaluates to true the menus and sub-menus display, else, when false, the menu and its sub-menus are hidden. The default is True. See the Advanced Configuration Guide for more information about using macros.
Icon   The icon to use for the menu item.
Type type The model type to associate with the menu item title.
Href href If a direct reference to a model type is used for the menu item, the specified path.
Field Display Policy field_display_policy The field display policy to associate with the menu item.
Configuration Template configuration_template The configuration template to associate with the menu item.
Custom Components  

Admin Portal core custom components. Options in the drop-down depend on the model you choose in the Type field, For example, when choosing model type view/AddPhone, the custom component available for selection is Add Phone. The custom components allow you to display GUI content (such as landing pages, lists, and forms) in the same layout as they appear in the Business Admin Portal.

Custom components are also available for multi vendor environments and for Microsoft-only environments. This feature is only available in the new VOSS-4-UC Admin Portal.
Landing Page   The landing page to display, when the Display As option for the menu item is set to Landing Page. This option is only available in the new VOSS-4-UC Admin Portal GUI. Note that sub-menus cannot be selected as landing pages.
Display As display

The display format of the model types of the menu item. Options are:

  • Form for a single instance
  • List or Tree for more than one instance
  • Landing Page for an existing landing page. (This option is available only the new VOSS-4-UC Admin Portal GUI.

The default is List.

Filters

The table describes configuration options for Configurable and Fixed Filters on the Menu Layouts page:

Note

Fixed filters cannot be removed.

Title Field Name Description
Configurable Filters filter_options.[n] For List option only.
Filter By filter_by Attributes of the Type can be chosen from the drop-down list.
Filter Type filter_type Choose the matching operator for the filter.
Filter String filter_string Choose the value that the matching operator should match by.

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