Adding an Enterprise menu bar item (?)

[Bruce McF]

My apologies. This must be straightforward but I haven't found documentation
to clarify. I would like for an additional menu item to appear on all new
projects created from PWA ... to house several tools/macros. I tried
opening the Enterprise Global and creating the additional item ... but
whatever I do, it seems that the item in only created in my local Global.mpt.

If I want to effectively "deploy" this additional menu item across the
enterprise, what do I need to do. (I assume I am missing something simple
here.)

Rod's book provides for programmatic creation, but I am assuming there must
be a non-programmatic way to deploy a menu across the enterprise. (Sorry ..
perhaps I should be in the other discussion group.)

Thanks for your help,
Bruce

 

[Bruce McF]

I rationalize that this is the appropriate forum for this question since it
provides the publication mechanism for access to the macros to be used.

I see that the same question was asked twice with no response in the Server
forum.

So far, I have deduced that any change to a Toolbar occurs in the Global.mpt
even if the Checked Out Enterprise Global is open and the change was
apparently made there. This means you need to use the Organizer to copy from
the (local) Global.mpt to the Checked Out Enterprise Global in order to get
the creation/changes to stick. Documentation says that the local Global.mpt
takes precedence over the Enterprise Global. If anyone has any
info/experience in maintaining an enterprise-level menu for publishing access
to macros, please reply. Worst case, we can always create temporary menus on
Project_Open from Enterprise level macros ... per Rod's book.

 

[Bruce McF]

The procedure that seems to work is to (1) Open Professional connected, (2)
Open Enterprise Global, (3) Customize the toolbar/menu bar, (4) Use
Tools/Organizer to Copy the toolbar FROM the Global(+ non-cached enterprise)
to the Checked Out Enterprise Global, (5) Save the Checked Out Enterprise
Global, (6) Close it and Check It In, (7) Exit Proessional, no need to save
Project 1, (8) Make Professional is not still open for any other files, (8)
Open Professional connected to see the changes.

New projects will now have the Toolbar/Menu.

Aside: Only the macro name itself was included in the Assign Macro on the
menu items .. no reference to the Checked Out Enterprise Global in the path.

I am hoping this will allow us to maintain the macros and the toolbar at the
Enterprise level. If there are any fatal flaws in this approach, please
reply.