Help System

Menus

ADD MENU

Districts and schools can display menus in a convenient, user-friendly calendar format. Any type of menu can be created - breakfast, lunch or snack - for each building location. The menus display in a similar format as the district/school calendar.

Add a Menu:

Click on Add Menu.
Select the month, year and category.
Hit Show Month.
Enter in the daily menu for each day of the month in the left-hand text boxes.
The right-hand text boxes are for additional menu information which will appear in a separate pop-up window on the front end.
Check the spell check box (optional).
At the bottom of the form, you have the ability to enter in information that will appear as a footer for that particular menu.
Hit Save.

No Weekends:

Saturdays and Sundays can be hidden from view on the front-end calendar.

Click on Add Menu and then Weekend Option.
Select No Weekends and hit Save.
Please note: this feature is available only to Webmasters.

Daily Defaults:

Daily Defaults will allow you to set daily default menu items that can be copied to each month's lunch menu.

Click on Add Menu.
Select Maintain Daily Defaults.
Select the category to add defaults to. This will only display if you have more than one menu category.
Type in the defaults for each day.
Hit Save.
For each month, you will need to select Copy My Daily Defaults in order to add the default information to the menu.

Copy Menu:

Allows you to copy one month's menu to another month.

Click on Add Menu.
Click on Copy Menu.
Select the month to copy from.
Select the month to copy to.
Select the category to copy.
Hit Next.
Select Copy Data Now.
The copied menu can be edited if necessary.

EDIT MENUS

To edit a Menu:

Click on Add Menu.
Select the month, year and category.
Click Show Month.
Make the desired edits.
Click Save.

To delete a Menu:

Follow the steps above to edit the menu.
Scroll down to the end of the menu.
Click on Delete This Menu?
Confirm deletion.
Hit OK.

MENU CATEGORIES

Parents, students and staff all want to know what's for lunch each day in the school cafeteria. Therefore, one of the most heavily trafficked areas is the Lunch Menu.

Our Lunch Menu module allows Food Service to easily set up breakfast or lunch menus for each building. The menus are organized by categories. You can create as many categories as needed.

Under School Lunch - Menus, click on Menu Categories.
Type in the new category in the text box.
Hit Save.
To delete an existing category, select the Check to Delete! text box next to an existing category. Please note: if a category is tied to a menu, the menu needs to be deleted first then the category.
Click the Save.

Link to specific menus

Goto pages can be created to specific menus by referencing the ID number. When you click on Menu Categories, the ID number displays to the left of the category.

To reference a particular menu category, create a goto page with a URL of lunch_menus.cfm?mycat=1 - the ID number will be the mycat=number.

For example, if your category is ID 4, then the URL would be lunch_menus.cfm?mycat=4