customise-the-main-menu.md



Customise the Main Menu

 
Main Menu Sections
The main menu can be customised from the Settings, under
Utilities, to hide sections that are not needed by the lab.
 

Go to Settings.

Click Edit.

Go to the Main Menu section.
Disable the parts of the menu which are not needed.
Save.

 
showLabNotebook: if unselected, the Lab Notebook section of
the main menu (Lab
Notebook)
will be hidden.

showInventory: if unselected, the Inventory section of the
main menu (Inventory of Materials and
Methods)
will be hidden.

showStock: if unselected, the Stock section of the main menu
(Managing Lab Stocks and
Orders)
will be hidden.

showObjectBrowser: if unselected, the Object Browser under
Utilities in the main menu (Object
Browser)
will be hidden.

showStorageManager: if unselected, the Storage Manager under
Utilities in the main menu (Storage
manager)
will be hidden.

showAdvancedSearch: if unselected, the Advanced Search under
Utilities in the main menu (Advanced
Search)
be hidden.

showUnarchivingHelper: if unselected, the Unarchiving Helper
and Archiving Helper under Utilities in the main menu (Data
archiving)
will be hidden.

showTrashcan: if unselected, the Traschcan under
Utilities in the main menu
(Trashcan)
will be hidden.

showVocabularyViewer: if unselected, the Vocabulary
Browser under Utilities in the main menu (Vocabulary
browser)
will be hidden.

showUserManager: if unselected, the User Manager under
Utilities in the main menu (User
Registration)
will be hidden.

showUserProfile: if unselected, the User Profile under
Utilities in the main menu (User
Profile)
will be hidden.

showZenodoExportBuilder: if unselected, the Zenodo
Export under Utilities -> Exports in the main menu 
(Export to
Zenodo)
will be hidden.

showBarcodes: if unselected, the Barcodes Generator under
Utilities in the main menu
(Barcodes)
will be hidden.

 
Lab Notebook menu
 
It is also possible to customise which entities should be shown under
Experiments/Collections in the main menu under the Lab Notebook
section.
By default, only the Object types Entry and Experimental Step
are shown (see picture below).