The menu module provides Drupal administrators with the ability to create and edit sidebar navigation menus and give each full menu a block for placement. The module must be enabled by clicking Administer (top menu) » Site building » Modules and clicking the box next to menu.

These instructions require that you have the administer menus permission set for the role you belong to. Permissions are found under Administer » User management » Access control.

To Add a Menu

1. Login.
2. Click Administer (top menu) » Site building » Menus » Add menu tab.
3. Type a title for the menu.
4. Click Submit.

A block is created for the new menu, and to display the menu for users, you must enable that block. Click Administer (top menu) » Site building » Blocks, then click the checkbox for the block in the Enabled column. You may also want to change the visibility settings (so that users can disable or enable the menu in their settings) or have the menu display only on certain pages. See our instructions on enabling, disabling and placing sidebar blocks for more information.

To a Add a Menu Item

Each menu will need menu items in order for the menus to be useful.

1. Click Administer » Site building » Menus » Add menu item tab.
2. Type a title and description for the menu.
• The title will be the text of the link on the sidebar.
• The description will be the text that hovers over the text when users place their mouse over the link.
3. Type in a relative path or fully-qualified URL to an external site. If you type in the system path, and it has a more descriptive URL alias, the menu will, when generating the menu, use the alias.
4. Note: if you want to have children items, make sure this is the "Drupal" path. This means, for example, node/42 instead of any alias(es) you may have created for it.

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5. Select where the item will appear under in the Parent item.
• If you've created a new menu, you can instead select that menu.
• f you want the menu item to appear at the root of the menu, then select Navigation.
• If you want to include the menu item deeper in the menu, you can select a different menu item beneath Navigation.

To Remove a Menu Item

1. Login.
2. Click Administer (top menu) » Site building » Menus, or if you're already making changes to menus, simply click the List tab.
3. You can remove a menu item temporarily or permanently:
• Temporarily: click the disable link in the row of the menu item list.
• Permanently: click the delete link in the row of the menu item list, then click the Delete button to confirm.

To Remove a Menu

These instructions are for removing a menu. The menu's items will be moved to another menu.

1. Click Administer (top menu) » Site building » Menus.
2. Find the menu you wish to remove.
3. Click the delete link below the menu name.
4. Confirm you wish to delete the menu by clicking the Delete button.

Determining Which Menu are Primary and Secondary Links

Themes will usually display the Primary and Secondary links menus separately from the sidebar, and this can be set under Administer (top menu) » Site building » Menus » Settings tab. You will see two dropdowns, which lets you select from the already-defined menus.

The other setting lets you restrict which menus the content-editing form you can quickly place a link to that content from. The default is to be able to select from all menus.