We started setting up the menu and at first the menu formatting with the blue and white columns were there, then we lost them, and now all we have is the tree template. Its nice but we would rather have the blue and white. How can we get the blue and white back. Also, whats the relationship between the menu template vs the template on the form command of the O4W Procedure, they don't need to be the same do they?

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We started setting up the menu and at first the menu formatting with the blue and white columns were there, then we lost them, and now all we have is the tree template. Its nice but we would rather have the blue and white. How can we get the blue and white back. Also, whats the relationship between the menu template vs the template on the form command of the O4W Procedure, they don't need to be the same do they?

Thanks

Hi, Jackie. No, the two templates don't need to be the same. The menu template is only used if the menu is called all by itself; the template on the form command of the O4W Procedure is the one that will be used when the procedure is called.

How the menu is displayed - as a tree, or as the blue and white menu, or even as a menu along the top of the page - is normally determined by the template. If you look in the plain HTML of the template (using Window's notepad, for example), you should find a "tag" that says where the menu should go - it'll start "%MENU". What comes after that %MENU is the "type" of the menu to show - if it's a tree menu you want, you'd put "-T%" at the end (so it reads "%MENU-T%" in your template). If you want the blue and white (vertical) menu, you'd put "-V%" (so it reads "%MENU-V%" in the template). If you wanted a horizontal menu, you'd put "-H%" (so it would read "%MENU-H%").

So, edit up your template with Notepad and change the "%MENU-T%" to "%MENU-V%", and then either save it as a new name (if you might want to ever have _both_ templates available) or just save it (if you think you'll never need the tree menu again).

- Bryan Shumsky

Revelation Software, Inc.

Yay, it works! There it is, thanks so much!

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