PMENU is a unique personal menu system for Novell Networks. Unlike most menu systems which require an individual menu to be produced and maintained by the system administrator for each user, PMENU generates a personalised menu for each user immediately they log on.

The main element in this menu generation is the use of Novell's Security Groups. PMENU uses these groups to determine the options on each user's menu. If the user is a member of the appropriate group, the option appears. This means the system need know nothing about the user, merely the groups he belongs to (which Novell makes available to any application). Thus if a completely new user logs on, he will instantly be presented with his own personalised menu, all the system administrator has to do is make him a member of the correct groups at the same time the user is added.

Adding or removing options from a users menu is simply a question of adding or removing the user from the appropriate group. Any changes that are required to the user's menu are made automatically the next time their menu is displayed.

In addition to the considerable flexibility and easy of maintenance PMENU offers both the user and the network systems administration, PMENU's other strength lies in the fact that, unlike most other menu systems, it has no memory overhead whilst a selected option is running. Many menu systems remain in memory after an option has been selected, so that they can present the user with the menu again once a choice is finished with. This means that much needed system memory is not available to the application running. PMENU has NO MEMORY OVERHEAD whilst the selected program or option is running, which means that as much memory as possible is made available to it. This also allows PMENU to react to changes in the users rights and groupings whilst the user is logged on, so automatically presenting them with an updated menu when the current selection is finished with.