Welcome to the Menus in T24 learning unit.

In this learning unit, you will learn about how to

create and customize T24 menus.
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create and customize T24 menus.
After completing this course, you will be able to
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1. Explain the need for Menus in T24
2. Create your own Menus in T24
3. Understand how to invoke Menus
Assume you had an enquiry with a long name, say TRG.ENQ.CUSTOMER.DETAILS.
To launch it, you would have to remember the name correctly and type it all in the To launch it, you would have to remember the name correctly and type it all in the
command line. There could be several such enquiries, versions and even application
names like LD.LOANS.AND.DEPOSITS, FUNDS.TRANSFER in T24. It would be
easier for an end user if they did not have to remember all these application names. As
soon as you logged in to T24, if all you need to access is readily available on a menu,
that would help immensely. This is what T24 menus are all about.
1. Novice users dont need to remember application names and can easily navigate using
menus to accomplish their tasks.
2. T24 allows you to create multiple menus according to each users work profile
3. Related tasks can be grouped together using the menus and submenus.
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1. The illustration shows how a typical menu appears in T24.
The highest level in this menu structure has three submenus namely User Menu,
Admin Menu and Role Based Home Pages. The menus can be expanded by clicking
on the menu.
All user related tasks are grouped under the user menu and administration tasks are
grouped under admin menu. This helps the user to navigate easily.
2. When the user expands a menu item by clicking on the menu, the submenus are listed
for each of the top level menus.
User Menu, Admin Menu and Role Based Home Pages form the first level of menus.
Customer, CRM, Contact Management, Product Catalog, Retail Operations, Credit
Operations and others form the second level.
Under Credit operations, Limits, Collateral and Loans form the third level.
In Limits, Limit Menu, Group Limits , Enquiries and View COB Reports form the fourth
level.
In this illustration, some T24 applications are listed under Group limits. These are also
referred as menu items.
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Lets understand how to create these submenus and parent menus.
1. Sub menus are created using HELPTEXT.MENU application in T24
2. Parent menus are created using HELPTEXT.MAINMENU application and is used to
combine the submenus into a main entity.
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To learn to create menus in T24, this learning unit demonstrates how you would create a
simple menu like the one in the illustration. simple menu like the one in the illustration.
The menu that you can see above is one main menu, which has three smaller menus
attached as indicated by the arrows. Each of the these submenus have numerous menu
items. You have already seen that there are two different applications in T24 that you will
use to create menus. You will now learn how to use them.
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To create a submenu in T24, you will use the HELPTEXT.MENU application. There are only
3 fields in this application. 3 fields in this application.
ID: Any user defined text. First character has to be a letter.
APPLICATION : This is where you define the menu items. A menu item can be a valid T24
application name, enquiry name or version name.
The ACCOUNT application has been chosen for illustration. You can also add the T24
function behind the application / version name
GB DESCRIPTION : Description of the menu item that will be displayed for the user to click
on.
DISPL APPLICATION : This field can be used to display the application name in the menu.
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So now that you know how to create a record in HELPTEXT.MENU, to accomplish what we
started out to create, you will need 3 records in HELPTEXT.MENU. started out to create, you will need 3 records in HELPTEXT.MENU.
1. Submenu1 has three menu items to create a customer record, list authorized and
unauthorized customer records.
2. The record TRG.SUBMENU1 is created for this purpose.
3. Submenu2 has three menu items to create an account and list unauthorised and
authorised accounts.
4. The record TRG.SUBMENU2 is created for this purpose
5. Submenu3 has two menu items to launch an account version and an enquiry to list the
customer details.
6. The record TRG.SUBMENU3 is created for this purpose
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Now that the 3 submenus are ready, how can you use them? All submenus must be
attached to create a main menu. This is done using the HELPTEXT.MAINMENU attached to create a main menu. This is done using the HELPTEXT.MAINMENU
application.
ID : Has to be numeric
GB Title : Description for the main menu
Id Of Help Menu : The whole idea of using this application is to bring together existing
submenus. This field must hold an the ID of an existing HELPTEXT.MENU
GB Description.3 : Description that will appear for the group of submenus
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This is the record that must be created in order to group the three sub menus
The ID of the HELPTEXT.MAINMENU in this example is 333.
The submenus TRG.SUBMENU1, TRG.SUBMENU2 and TRG.SUBMENU1 are attached to
this record.
Do not forget to commit and authorize the record.
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1. Now lets us understand how to invoke the menus that you created. The first way is using
the command line. The syntax you must use is a question mark followed by the command line. The syntax you must use is a question mark followed by
HELPTEXT.MAINMENU id (in this example 333)
2. This is how the main menu will look with all the sub menus expanded.
3. The result of clicking on the menu item to list the authorised customers is shown.
4. This depicts the screen when the menu item to list unauthorised accounts is chosen.
5. This shows the account version being launched from the third sub menu.
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The second way of launching a menu is by attaching it a USER profile. By doing this, this
menu is displayed as soon as the user logs in.
The HELPTEXT.MAINMENU id is attached to the field Init Application prefixed with a
question mark. In this example, the main menu id is 333 and this is attached to the field as
illustrated.
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When the user signs on, the menu item attached to the user profile gets loaded for that user.
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1. Lets modify the submenu TRG.SUBMENU1 and remove the GB Description for listing
the authorised customer records. The Display Application field is set to Y. Dont forget
to commit and authorise the record.
2. The application name is displayed when Submenu1 is expanded as illustrated. So it
shows CUSTOMER L entered in the field Application.
3. On clicking the link, the enquiry gets executed and lists the authorised records for the
customer.
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1. HELPTEXT.MENU is used to create parent menus - True / False
Answer:
2. In T24 default menus can be attached to the user profile based on their tasks True /
False
Answer:
3. Sub menus are created using HELPTEXT.MAINMENU- True / False
Answer:
4. The created sub menus are attached to the parent menu True / False
Answer:
5. To attach a menu to the user profile, HELPTEXT.MAINMENU id is specified in the
INIT.APPLICATION field of the user profile - True / False
Answer:
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1. Sub menus are created using HELPTEXT.MENU
2. Id to HELPTEXT.MENU can be any alpha numeric text
3. Parent menus are created using the HELPTEXT.MAINMENU
4. Id to HELPTEXT.MAINMENU is always a numeric value
5. HELPTEXT.MAINMENU id is attached to the field Init Application of user application
6. Menus can also be launched from the command line
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In this learning unit you have learnt about T24 menus. You will now be able to,
1. Explain the need for Menus in T24
2. Create your own Menus in T24
3. Understand how to invoke Menus
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