How to create and organize menu

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Menu is one of modules of TomatoCMS, it manage list menu will appear on your website. It can help you to create new menu, edit or delete menu, especialy, you also can drag and drop menu item to organize order of menu items or set a menu item is sub menu item of another menu item.
So how to create new menu?
At dashboard, click Module > Build new menu menu, it has three section: Menu information, Menu item, Preview.
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Menu information

Input your menu information such as name and description into Menu information section.
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Menu item

To insert new menu item, input lable and url of menu item into Menu item section, then, click on Add link to add menu item to Preview section
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If you want to delete menu item from list, just click delete link of menu item.

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So, why you dont see edit link to edit added menu item?
It will edited easy by click on name or url of each menu item, it will apear a textbox allow you to edit.

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From 2.0.7.1 version, you can use useful feature is Link Provider.
Click on You can use the Links Provider to input the URL quickly link, you will see a all links are organized by different groups.
Just click on one link, it will be added in list menu items.

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If you want to add a sub menu, so let's create menu as usual, then drag it and drop into menu item which you want.

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Also, list menu item above is not saved in database, if you want to save it, just click Save
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Now, menu and menu item belong to it saved in database and displayed in List of menus
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At here, you also can edit or delete added menu by click edit or delete link of each menu.

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