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When we work with User Profile Administration and we work with Menu Access, we are essentially working with Menu Paths that lead to Menu Options that the Users may Open and Perform or Execute.

So in this Tutorial we answer the Question: What is a Menu Option?

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Now I am starting with a Menu Path.

I am selecting an Application called Inventory.

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From the Actions I choose File Maintenance.

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And from the Options I choose Inventory Master.

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And now I have effectively opened a Menu Option. So this is a Menu Option.

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Now I am going to recall an existing Stock Code.

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And then I am going to press Help - F1.

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In this case to show that when we get Help on any Process that we are working with, then apart from the Help that we get, at the top we get a Key, the Current Process Key, in square brackets [ivmast].

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That is the Menu Option Key in the Process Library.

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This is the Menu Description or Name.

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So if I Exit that and I Open the Business Objects.

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And I choose Menus.

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Then If I choose Process, I am entering a Menu Options Library called the Process Library.

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And if I type that Key here: ivmast.

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Then we see the Menu Description coming up. “Inventory Master” and this actually calls a screen.

So this Menu Process is in fact a Screen. But the point is it is a Menu Option.

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And it will always be listed with a Menu Type of “Any Menu”.

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It is so that there are also Processes in the Process Library that do not say “Any Menu” and they say “No Menu” or “Control Menus Only”.

Those Objects cannot be provided on a Menu Path as a Menu Option.

But they are still Processes and they are typically called by other Processes, and in many cases they are called from these Options, that we call Menu Options.

But essentially a Menu Option is an Object that we will find in the Process Library and listed as available with any Menu.

In other words we can put it on the User Menu.

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So the Application is not a Menu Option.

The Action is not a Menu Option.

They are merely Sign Posts, but they lead the Path or the Route to arrive at a Menu Option, which a User can Perform or Execute.

In other Words a Menu Option is really an Option that we will find in the Menu Process Library and we can include it on a Menu Path as the final destination of the Menu Path.

That is what a Menu Option is.