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Contents 1 IKM menus 2 Adding a menu to a page 3 Editing an existing menu 4 Creating a new menu 5 More information

IKM menus

The custom templates that have been created for this site:

• Template:Workspaces
• Template:Participation
• Template:About
• Template:Help
• Template:Intermediaries

Adding a menu to a page

To add a right hand menu to a page you need to add this code to the top of a page:

{{Template:Workspaces}}

Where the template name, in this case Workspaces, matches the menu template.

Editing an existing menu

To add or edit items in an existing menu first look at the template that is being used by editing the page it is on and looking for the {{Template:Menu_Name}} code and then open the Template:Menu_Name page and edit it.

There are direct links to the menus that have been created for this site above.

Creating a new menu

To create a new right hand menu first decide on a name for it, for example Template:New_Menu then pick an existing template to copy, for example the Template:About one, which contains:

 <span style="z-index=-1; position:relative;">
 {| class="toccolours" id="About_Index" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="200px"  style="clear: both; float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; text-align:center; border: px solid "
 | colspan="2" style="font-size: 95%; background:#CAEBF9;"|
 |-
 | colspan="2" style="font-size: 90%; border-top:1px #686; background-color:  #63C9F4;"|'''[[Help:Editing|Help]]'''
 |-
 | colspan="2" style="font-size: 90%; text-align: left;"| 
 [[Contact]]
 <br />[[Documents]]
 <br />[[Structure]]
 <br />[[Background]]
 <br />[[Offers for tender]]
 |-
 |}
 </span>
 

And then you need to change the title of the menu, in this case the [[Help:Editing|Help]] and then change the items in the menu -- the lines starting with <br />.

More information

Further template help can be found on the MediaWiki Template Help page.