# Customise the Main Menu



 

## Main Menu Sections

  
The main menu can be customised from the **Settings**, under
**Utilities**, in the **Tools** tab. This allows to hide sections that are not used by a lab.

 

![image info](img/201012-navigation-menu-tools-settings.png)

 

1.  Go to **Settings.**
2.  Click **Edit.**
3.  Go to the **Main Menu** section.
4.  Disable the parts of the menu which are not needed.
5.  **Save.**

 

![image info](img/Screenshot-2020-02-26-at-10.11.14-1024x708.png)

 

1.  **showLabNotebook**: if unselected, the **Lab Notebook** section of
    the main menu ([Lab
    Notebook)](../../general-users/lab-notebook.md)
    will be hidden.
2.  **showInventory**: if unselected, the **Inventory** section of the
    main menu ([Inventory of Materials and
    Methods](../../general-users/inventory-of-materials-and-methods.md))
    will be hidden.
3.  **showStock**: if unselected, the **Stock** section of the main menu
    ([Managing Lab Stocks and
    Orders](../../general-users/managing-lab-stocks-and-orders-2.md))
    will be hidden.
4.  **showObjectBrowser**: if unselected, the **Object Browser** under
    **Utilities** in the main menu ([Object
    Browser)](../../general-users/additional-functionalities.md#browse-entries-by-type)
    will be hidden.
5.  **showStorageManager**: if unselected, the **Storage Manager** under
    **Utilities** in the main menu [(Storage
    manager](../../general-users/managing-lab-stocks-and-orders-2.md#))
    will be hidden.
6.  **showAdvancedSearch**: if unselected, the **Advanced Search** under
    **Utilities** in the main menu ([Advanced
    Search)](../../general-users/search.md)
    be hidden.
7.  **showUnarchivingHelper**: if unselected, the **Unarchiving Helper**
    and **Archiving Helper** under **Utilities** in the main menu ([Data
    archiving)](../../general-users/data-archiving.md)
    will be hidden.
8.  **showTrashcan**: if unselected, the **Traschcan** under
    **Utilities** in the main menu
    ([Trashcan](../../general-users/additional-functionalities.md#trashcan))
    will be hidden.
9.  **showVocabularyViewer:** if unselected, the **Vocabulary
    Browser** under **Utilities** in the main menu ([Vocabulary
    browser](../../general-users/additional-functionalities.md#vocabulary-browser))
    will be hidden.
10. **showUserManager**: if unselected, the **User Manager** under
    **Utilities** in the main menu ([User
    Registration](./user-registration.md))
    will be hidden.
11. **showUserProfile**: if unselected, the **User Profile** under
    **Utilities** in the main menu ([User
    Profile](./user-registration.md#user-profile))
    will be hidden.
12. **showZenodoExportBuilder**: if unselected, the **Zenodo
    Export** under **Utilities -> Exports** in the main menu 
    ([Export to
    Zenodo](../../general-users/data-export.md#export-to-zenodo))
    will be hidden.
13. **showBarcodes**: if unselected, the **Barcodes/QR codes Generator** under
    **Utilities** in the main menu
    ([Barcodes)](../../general-users/barcodes.md)
    will be hidden.

## Lab Notebook menu

It is also possible to customise which entities should be shown under the Lab Notebook menu.

By default, only the *Object* types **Entry** and **Experimental Step**
are shown (see picture below).

 

![image info](img/201012-EN-navigation-menu-objects.png)

 

 

If you want to show additional custom *Object* types in the lab notebook
main menu, they need to be enabled by editing the **Settings**. 

Go to the **Object Type definitions Extension** section in the
**Settings**. Open the relevant *Object* type, which you would like to
see in the Main menu of the Lab Notebook and select **Show in lab
notebook main menu**, as shown below.

By default, the Object Types **Entry** and **Experimental Step** have
this option already selected. 

 

![image info](img/settings-show-in-labnotebook-1024x577.png)

 

Please note that this is only valid for the **Lab Notebook** section. In
the **Inventory** section, entries are never shown in the main menu,
because inventories can potentially have thousands of entries, which are
better visualised in tables, rather than in the main menu.