Site menu

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View of the « site menu » page

The site menu is the public navigation bar that your visitors see at the top of each page of the community site. It combines two families of links:

• the default links, which point to the standard sections of the site (Donations, Schedules, Subscriptions, Events, Galleries) and which you enable or disable as needed;
• the custom links, which you freely add to any URL — internal page (for example /pages/qui-sommes-nous) or external site.

To access this screen: /app/web/menu.

This screen is still served by the old technical backoffice component. All features remain operational, but the visual appearance (spacing, buttons, fonts) does not yet reflect the new design currently being rolled out across the rest of the backoffice. A redesign is planned.

Overview

When opened, the screen displays two blocks of different nature:

1. "Site Menu" — a reorderable table containing your custom links (name, URL, possible parent menu, Edit / Delete actions). Each row is an entry you have created, stored in your menu's list. An Add a link to the menu button is available at the top right.
2. "Default Links" — a table summarizing the five system links: Galleries, Events, Subscriptions, Schedules, Donate. For each, a tag indicates the state (Enabled / Disabled) and a button allows toggling. These five rows are not entries in your menu: they are switches on configuration parameters of the site, which determine whether the associated system link should appear or not in the public navigation bar.

The custom links you add live in the items list of your menu: each click on Add a link to the menu creates a new row, each click on the trash removes it. The default links, on the other hand, have no existence in this list — they are rendered directly by the public site from the corresponding modules (Schedules, Galleries, etc.). The Enable / Disable buttons neither create nor delete entries: they simply toggle a menu.<name>.active parameter in your organization's configuration.

When your organization has several virtual sites (for example a main site and an antenna site), a set of tabs appears at the top of the page: Main Site, then one tab per virtual site. Each site has its own independent menu — modifying the "Main Site" menu does not affect the others and vice versa.

Enable or disable a default link

The five default links redirect to the standard pages automatically generated by the public site from your data. Enabling or disabling one of these links amounts to modifying a configuration parameter, not adding or removing an entry in your custom menu.

Link	Target page	Unisoft module powering the page
Donate	Donation pages	Funds / Campaigns / Forms
Schedules	Services and zmanim table	Schedules module
Subscriptions	Subscription signup page	Forms module
Events	Event posters list	Events module
Galleries	Public photo galleries	Galleries module

1. 1

   Locate the link in the «Default Links» table

   Each row displays the link name and its current state (green Enabled tag or red Disabled tag).

2. 2

   Click «Enable» or «Disable»

   The button in the Edit column immediately toggles the state of the corresponding parameter in your organization's configuration. The public page remains accessible via its direct URL, but the link disappears (or appears) in the navigation bar.

Disabling a default link is useful when the functionality exists in your organization but you do not wish to highlight it publicly. For example: you manage photo galleries internally for the paper bulletin, but do not want to expose them on the site.

Disabling a default link deletes nothing: the setting is remembered, and you just need to toggle the switch back to Enable to make it reappear. Conversely, a custom link that you delete is permanently removed from your menu's list (cf. section Delete a link).

Add a custom link

1. 1

   Click «Add a link to the menu»

   The button is at the top right of the "Site Menu" table. A modal window opens.

2. 2

   Enter the name

   This is the label that will appear in the navigation bar. Prefer short and clear terms, for example About us, Contact, Newsletter.

3. 3

   Enter the URL

   Two accepted formats:

   • Relative URL (recommended for an internal page to the site): /pages/qui-sommes-nous, /horaire, /contact.
   • Absolute URL (to point to an external site): https://my-other-site.org/info.

   The field accepts both formats. The URL is common to all languages — there is no need to duplicate it if your site is multilingual.

4. 4

   Validate

   Click Validate. The link appears immediately in the table, in the last position.

Reorder the links

The order of the rows in the "Site Menu" table determines the display order of the links in the public navigation bar, from left to right.

To reorder:

1. Click and hold the mouse on the row to move.
2. Drag it to its new position.
3. Release. The new position is saved automatically.

A success notification confirms the save. The positions of all rows are recalculated to form a continuous sequence.

Nest a link in a dropdown menu

To create a dropdown menu, you define a parent link to which you attach other links. The child links will appear as sub-items of the parent.

1. 1

   Locate the link to nest

   In the row's Parent Menu column, open the dropdown menu.

2. 2

   Select the parent link

   Choose from the other available custom links. To detach a link (move it back to the root of the menu), select No Parent Menu.

3. 3

   The change is saved automatically

   No validation button: the attachment is immediate.

Do not create a chain where a link A is parent of B, B parent of C, and C parent of A. This loop is not blocked by the interface but may prevent the menu from displaying correctly on the public site. In practice, stick to a single nesting level (parent → children) for clear navigation.

Modify an existing link

1. 1

   Click the Edit icon

   On the link's row, click the pencil icon in the Actions column. The same modal window as for creation opens, pre-filled with the current values.

2. 2

   Modify the name or URL

   Make your changes then click Validate.

Delete a link

1. 1

   Click the Delete icon

   On the link's row, click the red trash icon in the Actions column.

2. 2

   Confirm

   A confirmation request is displayed: "Are you sure you want to delete this link?". Click Yes to validate.

The link and all its parent attachment are lost. If other links had this link as parent, they automatically move back to the root of the menu.

Multi-site case (virtual sites)

When your organization manages several distinct public sites (for example a site for the headquarters and a site for a geographic antenna), the tabs at the top of the screen allow you to switch between them:

• Main Site: the historical menu of the organization's site.
• One tab per virtual site: a specific menu for each additional site.

Each site has its own list of custom links and its own set of default link activations. No synchronization: modifying the menu of one site does not affect the others.

The tabs only appear if your organization has already configured at least one virtual site. If you only have one, the screen displays the menu directly without tabs.

Best practices

• Limit the number of visible links in the main bar: beyond 7 entries, the menu becomes confusing on mobile. Group secondary links under a common parent (for example: "The community" with as children "Our history", "The team", "The rabbinate").
• Check your URLs: a custom link pointing to a non-existent URL will display an error page on the visitor side. Test by clicking from the public site after each addition.
• Naming consistency: use the same tone for all your links (for example, all in titles: "Our history", "Our schedules"… rather than alternating verbs and nouns).
• Don't disable Donate without reason: it's often the main source of revenue for the site, and the standard link redirects to the donation page automatically generated from your active funds.

Going further

• Schedules — feed the "Schedules" default menu link.
• Events — feed the "Events" default menu link.
• Photo galleries — feed the "Galleries" default menu link.