Overview

You may come across situations where you are not able to see the Menu Buttons and Shortcuts you have created on the Design Homescreen Page. This article outlines why this occurs and how you can solve it.

Diagnosis

The user has created a specific menu in the Design Homescreen Page but in the built-in App Previewer this will not show.

In the following example the user has selected the Grid layout and created some buttons but these buttons/links won't show

The root cause lies in the styling the user has selected. More specifically, the Menu Background color appears to be the same as the Menu Text color.

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Solution

The user should change either the color of the Menu text font or the Menu background.

More specifically, the user should

1. Go to Create -> Design > Navigation

2. Make sure the Menu text color scheme is different than the Menu Background color and there is actually a noticeable contrast between the two. For example:

3. Save the changes

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Testing

Once you perform the above steps you will be able to see the menu buttons you have created. In the above example the screenshot in the Previewer you would get would be like the following:

Note: Do not forget to save every time you make a change before you use the App Previewer built-in functionality.

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