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The Contextual Menus

While learning about the page tree, we were introduced to contextual menus when selecting icons in the Page module.

Contextual menus exist throughout the CMS's backend. You will notice that different sets of icons appear depending on what page you are on what actions you are performing.

For example, there's a contextual menu in the WEB > List view:

The contextual menu in the List

or in the FILE > Filelist view:

The contextual menu in the List