Custom Menu Links

About Custom Menu Links

Campus Cafe provides the ability to add custom links to the main menu. These links can point to any URL. For example, institutions may wish to link to to their library website or their academic calendar.

Add a Custom Link

1. Navigate to Admin > Custom Web Link Maintenance
2. For links for students, locate the links CUSTOM_STU_LINK_1 to CUSTOM_STU_LINK_10 (these appear under the My Info category in the main menu)
   For links for faculty/staff, locate the links locate the links CUSTOM_FAC_LINK_1 to CUSTOM_FAC_LINK_10 (these appear under My Info)
3. To the right of the link to update, check the select box
4. Click Edit Selected
   Description: An internal description of the link
   Link URL: The full path to the URL
   Link Text: The text to display in the menu
5. Click Update
6. Refresh the cache by navigating to Admin > Refresh Data Cache > reload data
7. A user's permission group must permit the appearance of these links. Refer to Permissions documentation for how to adjust permissions.
   Student links are permissions 622-631 under the My Info module
   Faculty/staff links are permissions 612-621 under the Faculty module. In addition, the user must have been added as a faculty/staff member (All Users > Add Person/Org)
8. A clear of the user's browser cache may be necessary to see the new links