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Menu file format


A menu file is a plain text (.txt) file that contains a formatted menu structure and is used with file menus. You cannot use MS Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) files as menu files.

Each line in the file contains a definition of a menu item in this format:


<label>\<value>

where:
label is the text that appears on the menu. A label can have a maximum of 80 characters.
value is the text that is entered into the character field when users select the menu item. A value can have a maximum of 255 bytes.

To create subitems, use tabs (not spaces). Omit the value for any label that has subitems.

This example shows a formatted menu structure with three main items, two of which have subitems:


Consulting Services\Consulting Services
Training
   Administrator\Administrator Training
  User\User Training
Support
   Standard\Standard Support
   Priority\Priority Support

You can create as many as 15 levels of menus (including the top level). To enhance usability, use as few levels as possible.

A parent item can have as many as 99 sub-items.

If you insert a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of text, the text that follows the pound sign is ignored.

Note

A menu file for a Unicode system must use the encoding used by that system. A menu file stored on a Unicode BMC Remedy AR System server must be a UTF-8-encoded text file without the byte-order mark. You can prepare a text file with a Unicode text editor and then remove the first three bytes (hexadecimal EF BB BF) using a byte editor.

 

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