Glossary 📚#
- Behavior#
The Plone behavior that adds the menu configuration to an enabled content type.
- Explicit opt-out#
A nearest ancestor whose menu has been explicitly saved empty. It stops inheritance and causes the viewlet to render nothing.
- External link#
A link item whose target is a URL outside the Plone site.
- Folder item#
A placeholder menu item that groups other menu items. It has children and no target; it renders as a non-navigating link for Barceloneta feature parity.
- Internal link#
A link item whose target is a Plone object, identified by the object’s UID.
- Link item#
A leaf menu item that points to one target. It has no children.
- Linkintegrity#
Plone’s mechanism for warning when content referenced by an internal link is deleted. Internal menu links participate in these checks.
- LRF#
A Language Root Folder, the folder type used for a language branch in a multilingual Plone site.
- Menu#
The ordered tree of menu items configured for a Plone Site, an LRF, or a Folder.
- Menu item#
A single node in a menu. Every menu item is either a folder item or a link item.
- Nearest ancestor#
The closest ancestor of the current context that has the menu behavior enabled. It determines which menu is in effect.
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Nonemenu value. It means the object does not configure a menu and inherits from the nearest ancestor.- Viewlet#
The browser viewlet that renders the menu in place of Plone’s main navigation.