By default SM displays menu items in following sequence:
Email | Collaborate | WorkSpace | Reports | Settings
How can I change it to:
Collaborate | Email | Reports | Settings
... and make Collaborate the default item?
Alter the SmarterMail\MRS\App_Data\Navigation\Navigation.txt file. Just re-order the lines and remove as applicable. These changes will be un-done next time you upgrade SmarterMail. You can also add ",RSS.ascx" to the UserEmail section if you don't want to lose that functionality while condensing the sections.
Standard "this isn't really supported don't blame me if it breaks things" disclaimer here.
How involved is the process to change the main menu items to:
"Calendar | Contacts | Tasks | Notes | RSS | Email | Reports | Settings" ?
I looked at the navigation.txt file, it seems to relate to main menu's only. How can I promote the 2nd level menu to 1st level?
To do that, you would use a Navigation.txt file such as:
UserContacts |@Contacts ||Contacts.ascx UserCalendar |@Calendar ||Calendar.ascx UserTasks |@Tasks ||Tasks.ascx UserNotes |@Notes ||Notes.ascx Splitter | || UserWorkspace |Main.frmAddRSS_Title||RSS.ascx UserEmail |@Email ||MailFolders5.ascx Splitter | || UserReports |@Reports || Splitter | || UserSettings |@Settings ||SectionNavigator.ascx,Events.ascx
In addition, you would need to create new icons for the new sections. Place them in App_Themes\SKIN\Images\Icons\IconMenu\SECTIONNAME.png
There are several unused images in there from other products you could potentially use.
Excellent! Thank you.
One concern I have is ..........when we upgrade the software we may lost some or all changes.
How can we safeguard against losing all changes?
You will need to make a backup of the files you alter and apply them after each update.