Customizing Menus

You can use the Menus page of the Settings dialog box to customize menus displayed to users in the Windows File Explorer File View.

To customize a user's menus:

  1. In the Administration tool, expand Users and Groups Management > Users and double-click the user whose menus you want to customize.
  2. In the Properties dialog box, click Settings.
  3. In the left pane of the user's Settings dialog box, click Menus.
  4. In the Destination Menu list, select the File View menu to modify:
    Background Shortcut Menu The shortcut menu displayed when the user right-clicks with nothing selected.
    File Shortcut Menu The shortcut menu displayed when the user right-clicks with a file selected.
    Folder Shortcut Menu The shortcut menu displayed when the user right-clicks with a folder selected.
    Bar\Actions The Actions menu on the SOLIDWORKS PDM menu.
    Bar\Modify The Modify menu on the SOLIDWORKS PDM menu.
    Bar\Display The Display menu on the SOLIDWORKS PDM menu.
    Bar\Tools The Tools menu on the SOLIDWORKS PDM menu.
    The commands for the selected menu are listed.
  5. Do any of the following:
    • To remove a command, select it and click .
    • To add a separator to the menu, select the command that you want below the separator and click .
    • To add a command to the menu, under Available commands, use the Flat list or Categorized tabs to display the available commands.

      Drag the command to the location that you want or click to add the selected command to the bottom of the menu.

    • To change the location of a command or divider in the menu, select it and click or .
  6. To modify another menu, repeat steps 4 and 5.
    You can add the same command to multiple menus.
  7. Do one of the following:
    • Click Apply to save your changes and close the Settings dialog box.
    • Click Cancel to close the Settings dialog box without saving your changes.

      When prompted to confirm that you do not want to save changes, click Yes.