The menu panel

When you open SunSystems, the menu panel is displayed by default. This panel fills the entire application window, and contains:

  • The navigation bar along the top, which organizes menu items into groups. Click a group on the navigation bar to display the menu items for that group. If you are using Infor Workspace, the menu categories for the currently selected group are displayed in a submenu that opens downwards from the group on the navigation bar.
  • The menu items for the currently selected group. In the Windows client, hover over a function name of a menu item to view its details. In Infor Workspace, the menu items are displayed in submenus within each category for the currently selected group. Click a function name to launch the function. To run a function in a new browser tab, right click the function and in the menu, select Open in a new tab.
  • The function selection control. Use this control in lookup mode or search mode, to rapidly locate and launch a function without having to navigate to the relevant group, category and menu item.
Note: When you open SunSystems in the Windows client or the Web client, the menu panel initially displays the group that was displayed when you last exited the application. If this is the first time you are accessing SunSystems, the Common group is displayed.

Menu Groups

The default menu groups are defined at the level of SunSystems modules.

The group allocation of menu items can be changed from the default using the User Group Menu Designer (UGM) which can also be used to add new groups and edit or delete existing ones. User Group Menu Designer is available in the SunSystems Windows client only.

See User Group Menu Designer Help for more information.

The Favourites group is defined by each individual user. If it is enabled, it is always displayed on the left of the main navigation bar. You can add items to your Favorites group in the SunSystems Windows client only.

In the Windows client, the groups on the main navigation bar can be scrolled using the left and right arrows at the right of the bar, except for the Favourites and Search Results groups, which are fixed.

Note: If the Search Results group is visible, it does not scroll and always remains to the immediate right of the Favourites group.

Categories

Menu items are further organized into categories, based on the business objects to which they relate. It is possible to change the default allocation of menu items to categories, but the list of categories is fixed.

Icon Type (Windows client only)

The menu items on the menu panel have an associated icon that is displayed when you hover over them. The default icon type for a menu item is based on the function type and cannot be changed. However, whilst the display icon defaults to the default icon type, it is a property that can be changed when designing a menu in User Group Menu Designer (UGM), or when added to the Favourites group.

Button Description
ico_extensionfunction.png Extension Function
ico_inquiry.png Inquiry
ico_maintenance.png Maintenance
ico_postingprocess.png Posting Process
ico_report.png Report
ico_systemprocess.png System Process

Menu Item Tooltips (Windows client only)

When you hover your cursor over a menu item for a longer period, a tooltip is displayed. The tooltip contains:

  • Function Name: This corresponds to the menu item name.
  • Code: The three-letter code for the function that the menu item references. This same code is used in the function list when you use the function selection control in lookup mode.
  • Default Icon Type: A description of the function type and the default display icon that is displayed to the right of a menu item on mouse-over.
Parent topic: Navigating