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Understanding the Menu System

The CA Automation Point menu system controls the menus and menu options that are available for each CA Automation Point window on the desktop. Statements in the following two files define a menu system:

• axc2p.mnu is a file distributed by CA Automation Point and installed into the installdir\Distrib directory. This file defines the default menus for CA Automation Point desktop windows.

  Note: axc2p.mnu is a fixed file. Do not modify it.

• user.mnu is a file created by the user and located in the %AP_SITE%\myfiles directory. This file defines user-customized menus.

Settings in the active Session Definition Set associate a menu with each session window or function window displayed on the CA Automation Point desktop.

You should never modify the axc2p.mnu file to customize menus. Instead, create a file named user.mnu in the %AP_SITE%\myfiles directory to specify all user menu customizations. User.mnu must be a plain ASCII text file. When defining a new menu, use Configuration Manager to override the default menu setting for a session definition or function window definition with a customized menu setting.

When you start CA Automation Point, it searches your site directory first for customized menu files before searching the files distributed with CA Automation Point. The user.mnu file (if it exists) is appended to the axc2p.mnu file before CA Automation Point creates the menu system. The CA Automation Point desktop displays windows and their associated menus according to settings in the active Session Definition Set.