Menu Definition window: Fields

Menu name

This is the name that is used within Microsoft Dynamics GP to refer to the menu.

Display name

This is the name that appears when the menu is displayed in the menu bar. The menu bar area is limited, so keep menu names as short as possible.

You can define an access key for the menu by placing an ampersand (&) in the menu display name. The ampersand won't be displayed in the menu name. Instead, the character immediately following the ampersand will be underlined. To choose the menu, a user can press the ALT key and the underlined character at the same time.

Menu Items

Lists the items that appear in the menu.

Item Name

This is the name that appears for the selected item when it is displayed in a menu. The ampersand (&), pound (#), hyphen (-) and tilde (~) characters have special meaning in menu item names.

An ampersand causes the next character to appear underlined and act as the access key.
The pound character draws an ellipsis (...) after the item.
If a hyphen is used as the item name, it causes a separator line to appear in the menu.
The tilde character draws a forward slash (/).

Shortcut

You can define a shortcut key for the menu item by selecting a character in this list. The shortcut key is CTRL + the specified character. To avoid conflicts, a shortcut key should be used only once in an application.

Unfocus

This field isn’t available in the Modifier.