Navigation Menu Designer Terminology

You may want to review terminology specific to the Navigation Menu Designer before you begin to use its features.

Term	Description
Node	A node is a menu item.
Top-level parent menu items	Top-level menu items are the highest level of parent menus. They have no actions associated with them; they are "containers" for other parent and child levels. Top-level menu items display in blue boxes. For example:
Parent-level menu items	Parent-level menu items are those menus that have children, or sub-level menus, under them. A parent level menu has an expand symbol to the left of it. For example: When you create a new parent level node, you must add at least one child level menu item to it for the parent node to be visible and active.
Child-level menu items	Child-level menu items (also referred to as leaf nodes), or sub-level menus, are those menus that display under a parent-level menu item. For example, in this case Billing is the parent and General, Default Terms, and Reporting Default Terms are the children:
Sibling-level menu items	Sibling-level menu items are those menus that are on the same level. In the example above, General, Default Terms, and Reporting Default Terms are sibling level menu items.