KBA-01403: Adding a custom item to the Spitfire Help Menu

Summary:

A custom item, URL Link, or document can be added to the Spitfire Help Menu. In the example below a custom user guide is added to the Spitfire Help Menu.

Using the sfPMS Catalog

Find (or create) the zPublic HTML folder in your sfPMS catalog and place your custom document into that folder. You will need the file key for your URL; in Chrome or native Edge:
1. Right click in the first cell of the row
2. Choose Inspect
3. In the Inspector, search for the hidden file key field and copy its value
4. Construct a URL in the form
  1. http or https://yoursite.yourdomain.com/sfPMS/sfIMG.aspx/ck/your-file-key-guid/YourDocumentName.pdf?cd=0
  2. Use this URL in the “ActionText” field below

Traditional – via the IIS Server:

Create a folder to serve as the location for delivering the custom document. Note: If/When this document is updated in the future, replace the file in this folder and retain the same file name.
In IIS, create a new virtual directory and give it the path to the folder created in the step above.

On SQL Server:

Add a record for the custom entry into the xsfDashboardMenu table of the Spitfire database. (See KBA-01410 for examples that you can use to paste as a query into SQL Management Studio and modify to easily insert the new record into the table.) Note: Use your Spitfire site URL instead of the one used in this example.