Scoping custom menu items

When you add custom menu items (on page 1), you need to consider the following elements:

• The scope level and name

• The menu label

• The parent menu

• The menu tree

In an application, menus are arranged in a hierarchical order called the menu tree. N4 has a distinct menu tree for each available scope. Accordingly, depending on the scope level, different menus are available to a user.

Following common scoping rules (on page 1), if two menu items with the same name and parent menu exist at two different scope levels, and if one scope is a parent of the other, then the one value overrides the other, independent of the nodes' position within the tree.

The following figure illustrates this concept.