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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:57:21 +0200
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- From: Roy 'Baby' Pearce
- <pearcera@RS6000-1.COMPUTER-CENTRE.BIRMINGHAM.AC.UK>
- Subject: Multiple Items/Navigation
- Comments: To: cwis-l@wuvmd.wustl.edu
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- I would like to add that the Birmingham CIS, in addition to allowing
- documents to be located in more than 1 Menu, also allows (Further) Menus
- to be located in more than 1 Menu.
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- To assist callers in re-tracing their footsteps thru the data tree, our
- system allows them, from any Menu excpet the Main Menu) to return to either
- the Parent Menu or the Previous Menu. (The latter, in general, is not
- the same thing as the former.)
-
- If you want to retrace your steps, it is recommended that you always use
- the command to select the Previous Menu. In fact, this is the default
- command (which you get by simply hitting RETURN) when you are sitting on a
- Menu (other than the Main Menu).
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- This is also useful where a caller has `jumped over' a number of Menus en
- route to some Menu deep down in the data tree. Using Previous Menu jumps back
- without (again) displaying Menus en route.
-
- Having moved onto the topic of tree navigation, CWIS-L readers may be
- interested to know that on our system you can `tag' a menu and `jump' to
- it from anywhere within the data tree. Rather like sticking your thumb in a
- book to mark your place! Currently only one thumb can be used!
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