System Context

The Menu Editor is an independent Web UI application allowing buttons to be configured in predefined tableaus (i.e. button panels) of the POS Client screens.

For this purpose, the Menu Editor uses a list of available POS functions for each screen and context, together with information on available tableau slots with their position and size. This configuration information can be loaded from a file or requested from Storemanager.

For the configuration of item buttons, item master data can be looked up in Store Device Control. To embed images, a connection to a Digital Signage Server can be established.

The tableau configuration maintained in the Menu Editor is stored in JSON files, which are deployed to the POS Client via Storemanager maintenance templates. On the client side, the POS Service logic reads the active tableau definitions for the defined layout and variant from the file and provides them to the POS Client application.