ControlPoint 8.8 - User Guide

Configuring ControlPoint Menus

ControlPoint menus are stored as xml documents in the ControlPoint Menus document library.  Included with each ControlPoint installation is a set of "original" menus provided by Quest. By default, the original menus are accessible by anyone with at least read access to the site (by default, all members of the ControlPoint Application Administrators and Administrators groups).  

Because ControlPoint Menus is a SharePoint document library, permissions are inherited from the ControlPoint Configuration site collection, but you can break inheritance and edit the permissions for each menu file individually.  You can also create customized menus for different users and groups.  

To display the ControlPoint menu list:

1Navigate to the ControlPoint Menus document library using one of the following options:

§From the ControlPoint Configuration Site home page, choose Documents, then ControlPoint Menus.

§From the Manage ControlPoint panel, choose ControlPoint Configuration > ControlPoint Menu List.

§From the ControlPoint Menu Maintenance page, click the Go to ControlPoint Menu List link.

Note that there are three versions of each menu, localized for English, French (.fr) and German (.de).

NOTE:  Original menus are not designed to be modified and any changes to original menus will be overwritten whenever a ControlPoint repair or update installation is performed.  If you want to add items to a menu, you can do so by first creating a custom version of the menu.  If you want to remove items, it is best to selectively restrict permissions to the original menu files and create custom menu files that include the appropriate items. See Guidelines for Creating Customized Menus for Different Groups of Users.

Original menus contain all of the available items at various levels of the left navigation pane, as illustrated below.

FARMActions

This menu contains all of the available items at the farm level

See also Farm-Level Default Menu Items in the ControlPoint User's Guide.

LISTActions

This menu contains all of the available items at the list level.

See also List-Level Default Menu Items in the ControlPoint User's Guide.

ManageCP

This menu contains all of the available items for managing the ControlPoint application as well as other hierarchy-independent functionality.

See also Manage ControlPoint Default Menu Items in the ControlPoint User's Guide.

SITEActions

This menu contains all of the available items at the site collection level.

See also Site Collection-Level Default Menu Items in the ControlPoint User Guide.

WAPActions

This menu contains all of the available items at the Web application level.

See also Web Application-Level Default Menu Items in the ControlPoint User's Guide.

WEBActions

This menu contains all of the available items at the site level.

See also Site-Level Default Menu Items in the ControlPoint User's Guide.

SiteAdminActions

This menu contains all of the items that display in the Actions and Analysis panel of the left navigation pane when a ControlPoint operation is initiated—or ControlPoint For Site Admins is launched—from within a SharePoint site.

NOTE:  For ControlPoint to be accessible from within a SharePoint site, ControlPoint Menus for Site Settings and/or ControlPoint for Site Admins must be activated, using the procedure(s) for Making ControlPoint Accessible from within SharePoint.

See also Site Admin Default Menu Items in the Quest Metalogix ControlPoint User's Guide.

UserACTIONS

This menu contains all of the right-click items at the user level.

See also User-Level Default Menu Items.