This section provides general information that applies to all menu manager views.
The Toast platform automatically saves the changes you make on the view as you work.
By contrast, you must manually save changes you make in the Items, Modifiers, and views using the Save [X] changes button. The menu manager provides two visual indicators for the edits you make in these views:
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The background color of edited fields turns to blue to indicate they were edited.
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The Save button is updated with the number of changes you have made.
Note that if you make a change to an entity and then re-filter the menu manager views so that the entity you edited is no longer visible, the edit you made still exists and will be included when you either save your changes and publish or create a change set to be published at a later date. The number on the Save button is a visual reminder of the number of changes you made during a menu manager session.
You can use the Columns selector to show, hide, and reorganize columns in the menu manager views.
To ensure that menu entity names are always visible, you cannot hide or move the Name column. Also, as you scroll to the right, the Name column remains fixed and visible as you scroll through the other columns.
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To show, hide, and reorganize columns
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Select Columns. The columns selector appears.
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To show all columns, select View all.
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To show a specific column, select its check box. To hide a specific column, clear its check box.
Some columns are grouped together as a set and must be shown or hidden as a set. For example, the Price strategy, Priced on, and Price columns for menu items or modifiers are grouped together as a set called .
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To reorder a column, select its reorder icon and drag it to its new location in the column list.
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Select Columns again to close the columns selector.
When you first open a menu manager view, the rows are collapsed. The illustration below shows the Full menu view when it is first opened:
The illustration below shows the Items view when it is first opened:
Rows that can be expanded are indicated by the expand/collapse icon. Select a row's expand/collapse icon to expand the row. Select it again to collapse the row.
To expand or collapse all the rows, select the expand/collapse all icon (the expand/collapse all icon is not yet available on Full menu view):
The menu manager has been designed to make menu data entry as efficient as possible. In particular, it makes use of the keyboard to allow for more rapid menu updates. This section provides more details.
When you add a new menu entity on the view, using one of the Add [entity type] buttons, a new row is added to the page with an empty text box where you can type the entity's name. After entering a name, you can do any of the following to finish creating the new entity:
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Press the Enter key.
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Select the checkmark next to the new entity's name.
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Select anywhere outside the text box that contains the new entity's name.
Any of these actions completes the entering of the new entity and saves your changes. To abort the entering of the new entity, press the Esc key to remove the new entity's row.
If you have not entered a name for the new entity yet, any action (pressing Enter, pressing Esc, selecting the checkmark, or selecting anywhere outside the text box) aborts the entry process and removes the new entity's row.
To remove the entity's name but leave the new row in place so you can re-enter a name, select the X icon in the name field.
To assist you in quickly entering menu data, the Items, Modifiers, and Price levels views have the following keyboard shortcuts:
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Use the Enter key to quickly move from one row to the next and Shift + Enter to move back to the previous row. You can use these keyboard shortcuts along with the row expanding icons to view the rows you want to edit and move between them more efficiently.
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Use Ctrl + Z on Windows machines and command + Z on Macs to undo your changes.
