Extracting a Menu Page

  1. Follow the steps in Selecting a Menu Page to select the menu page. The Menu Editing menu is displayed

  2. Select option 4 - Print page. The Menu Printing dialog box is displayed. Its options are as follows:

    Option Description
    Print in Mappost format

    Answer 'Yes' to extract the menus in a form that can be posted to another database. Answer 'No' to extract the menus in a format that can be used for documentation

    Print help messages

    Answer 'Yes' to include any help messages you have added to the menu options

    Print user details
    Print page cross reference list

    These two questions are not available for page printing, but they are available if you print the database menu as described in Extracting a Database Menu


  3. You are prompted to select the output destination. Include the name of the extract file

The menu page is extracted to the specified file in the Print files directory and you are returned to the Menu Editing main menu