The application menu¶

As we have seen, a Lino application contains models, tables, layouts and actions. But one important piece is missing: the application menu.

application menu¶: The application menu or main menu specifies how the different functionalities of an application are structured when presenting them to the user.

Every application has one --and only one-- application menu. But each user will see only the parts to which they have access permission.

A simple application menu ¶

For simple applications you can define the complete menu by overriding the lino.core.site.Site.setup_menu() method of your application.

An example for this approach is in The mysite/settings.py file. Let's have a look at this application.

>>> from lino import startup
>>> startup('lino_book.projects.polls.mysite.settings')
>>> from lino.api.doctest import *

You have seen the application menu in a browser window. But you can also show it in a documentation page:

>>> show_menu('robin')
- Site : About
- Polls : Questions, Choices