Web Menus

A menu is a control that offers a user a choice of pages to go to. The user navigates to a page by selecting one of the options. In certain cases, it is informative to show options that cannot be selected (insensitive options). They indicate parts of an application that for some reason are not available to the user.

A classic menu has words for option prompts, but you can also use images. A classic menu runs across the top of a start screen, but you can also have menus that run vertically, or different menus on different screens.

In a web environment there are so many graphic ways to let users navigate or select, that you may find you do not want menus in your application at all.

On the other hand, with USoft web menus you can present different menus for different user groups. This enables webmasters to use USoft Authorizer in a production environment dynamically to give new users access to specific parts of the application, or to widen or to narrow a user's possibilities in the application.

Web menus are created in two steps and authorization can be specified in an optional third step:

1.	Defining the menu structure using the Web Designer catalog.

2.	Displaying the menu structure using the web menu control.

3.	It is also possible to specify Authorization for menus. Specific user groups can be linked to specific menu structures. These optional authorization tasks are performed using the USoft Authorizer.