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---
layout: default
navPage: docs
heading: Menus Tab
breadcrumbs:
- User Documentation,/userdoc/
- Settings,/userdoc/settings/
- Menus Tab
prev: Files Tab,/userdoc/settings/files_tab/
next: Themes,/userdoc/themes/
categories: userdoc
tags: settings,menus
---
{% include open_section.html nav='nav_userdoc_settings.html' selected='menus_tab' %}
<p>
{% include screenshot.html item='i317.gif' %}
The final <b>menus</b> tab contains all functionality relating to the Form Tools navigation.
Here, you can modify your own administrator menu - adding, removing or re-sorting menu
items - and create or modify the client menus.
</p>
<p>
All new installations of Form Tools have two menus already set up: one for the
administrator, one for the client accounts. Depending on your needs, you may find that
these two menus are enough and that don't need to edit them or create any more. But if you
<b>do</b>, it's nice to know that you <b>can</b>.
</p>
<p>
Being able to customize the menu items can be very useful in some cases, to reduce the
amount of clicking to get from A to B. For example, if you only have a small number of forms,
you might want to consider putting links to each of them in the navigation menu itself. Or,
if you use one or more modules quite frequently, rather than having to navigate to the
Modules page, then find and select the appropriate module, you can instead add a link to
the module right in your menu.
</p>
<p>
{% include screenshot.html item='i318.gif' %}
Editing and managing the Client and Admin menu content work exactly the same way. On the
menus page, click the appropriate EDIT button. The following page will list all menu items
in that particular menu. The available pages dropdown lists all pages that are relevant
to the account type. Administrator menus, for example, have a much larger number of pages
that can be linked to. Some pages allow for additional settings, like "Form Submissions"
or "Edit Client" which let you pick a form and a client, respectively.
</p>
<h3>Pages Module</h3>
{% include screenshot.html item='i148.jpg' %}
<p>
The <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/modules/pages/">Pages Module</a> - which comes installed with
all new standard Form Tools bundles - allows you to create custom pages within
the Form Tools UI, which you can then include as part of the navigation. Generally, this can
be useful to create "Splash" pages which you can link to for clients when they log in.
Ultimately, the functionality of that module will be expanded for more server-side
customization, but even at this stage it can be quite useful.
</p>
{% include close_section.html %}