Configure main menu

Configuration of the main menu - Introduction

The main menu can be configured: Create exactly the entries that your organization needs; you can add, deactivate, rename entries, change the icons or make entries accessible only to certain target groups. 
Main entries are the huge buttons that make up the main menu.

  • Main entries can be a simple link such as the Dashboard button.
  • Main entries of the repository links type open objects in the repository. 
  • Main entries can be context menus with additional entries, select the Container type. 

You can maintain main entries and entries in several languages. Users then see the menus in the selected or assigned user language of the viewer.

Create new main entry

  1. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  2. ILIAS presents a table with the main entries of the main menu of this installation.
  3. Click Add main entry in the toolbar.
  4. ILIAS presents a form. 
  5. Enter the text of the main menu button under Title. 
  6. Upload an SVG as an icon. You can obtain such SVG icons, for example, at https://www.flaticon.com/ 
  7. Main entries of the Container type open context menus with further entries.  Attention: New container main entries are only displayed after you have actually assigned entries in the Entries sub-tab.
  8. Main entries of type Link occupy the main menu button with Internet addresses. Enter a URL and set the External link checkbox, otherwise ILIAS will switch to the corresponding page each time you click on the button.   
  9. Main entries of the repository links type occupy the main menu button with the link to a repository object. Enter the ILIAS reference ID. Open the target object and harvest the number from the address bar of the browser: This is the Ref-ID.
  10. Activate the Active checkbox to display the main entry of type Link and Repository link directly. Main entries of type container and entries must also be assigned entries so that they can be displayed. 
  11. Configure the visibility for roles.
  12. Click Save.

Reorder main entries

  1. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  2. ILIAS presents a table with the main entries of the main menu of this installation.
  3. In the Positions column, enter numbers that result in the desired sequence. 
  4. Click on Save above or below the table. 

Make entries only accessible for a specific role

Attention: You can only restrict access to certain roles for newly created main entries.

If you only want to make main entries that are already included in the standard scope of delivery available to certain target groups, you must first create and recreate these main entries. 

  1. If you only want to make main entries that are already included in the standard scope of delivery available to certain target groups, you must first create and recreate these main entries. 
  2. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  3. ILIAS presents a table with the main entries of the main menu of this installation.
  4. Click on the self-created main entry that only certain roles should be able to access (Povider: Custom) to actions. 
  5. Select the Edit entry.
  6. ILIAS presents a form. 
  7. Activate the Visibility for roles checkbox.
  8. ILIAS presents a list of global roles.
  9. Activate the checkboxes in front of all roles that should be able to see and use this main entry. 
  10. Click Save.

Delete or reset main entries

Attention: Only newly created main entries can be deleted.  

Delete individual main entries 

  1. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  2. ILIAS presents a table with the main entries of the main menu of this installation.
  3. Click on the self-created main entry that only certain roles should be able to access (Povider: Custom) to actions. 
  4. Select the Delete entry.
  5. Click Save.

Restore everything to its original state

  1. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  2. ILIAS presents a table with the main entries of the main menu of this installation.
  3. Click on the Reset main menu button in the toolbar above the table. 
  4. ILIAS asks if you are sure. 
  5. Click on Delete.
  6. All created entries and translations are deleted, the standard entries are reset to their original status. All adjustments to the main menu are lost.

Assign entries to main entries

  1. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  2. ILIAS presents the Main Entries sub-tab.
  3. Open the Entries sub-tab. 
  4. ILIAS presents a table with entries assigned to the main entries of this installation.
  5. Reassign an entry to a main entry by opening the selection menu in the first column and selecting the desired main entry. 
  6. Click Save.
  7. ILIAS displays the new context menu entry for the selected main menu entry. 

Deactivating individual entries

  1. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  2. ILIAS presents the Main Entries sub-tab.
  3. Open the Entries sub-tab. 
  4. ILIAS presents a table with entries assigned to the main entries of this installation.
  5. For those entries that should not be displayed or offered, remove the Active checkbox. 
  6. Click Save.
  7. ILIAS no longer displays the context menu entry. 

Turn entries into main entries

  1. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  2. ILIAS presents the Main Entries sub-tab.
  3. Open the Entries sub-tab. 
  4. ILIAS presents a table with entries assigned to the main entries of this installation.
  5. Open the Actions selection menu.
  6. Select the entry Move to main entries. 
  7. ILIAS makes a query.
  8. Click Move.
  9. ILIAS displays the new main entry. 

Reorder entries

  1. Open Administration > Layout and navigation > Main menu.
  2. ILIAS presents the Main Entries sub-tab.
  3. Open the Entries sub-tab. 
  4. ILIAS presents a table with entries assigned to the main entries of this installation.
  5. ILIAS presents a table with entries assigned to the main entries of this installation.
  6. Enter numbers in the Position column to put the entries of a main entry in the desired order. 
  7. Click Save.
  8. ILIAS rearranges the context menu entries.