The classic admin interface lets each administrator personalize the survey menus — the sidebars and bars shown around a survey's classic settings screens. You can rearrange the default menus, build a menu for a specific survey, and add or edit the entries inside each menu. In LimeSurvey 7 these live on your in-app Account page, as the Personalized menus and Personalized menu entries tabs.

Who needs this: very few people. This is an advanced feature aimed at self-hosted administrators who want to tailor the classic admin UI for their team (for example, hiding options or surfacing shortcuts). If you're just building and running surveys, you will never need it — the default menus are fine.

Scope note: This configures the classic admin interface only. The new survey editor's navigation (the Editor / Share / Results tab switcher, the icon rail, the "..." menu) is not affected by anything you do here. This in-app Account page is also distinct from the account.limesurvey.org billing/site account.

Managing menus

In the classic admin, click your user name (top right) → Account, then open the Personalized menus tab. A table lists all existing survey menus, with four actions: create, edit, delete, and reset to defaults.

To create a menu, click + New and fill in:

• Parent — nest this menu inside another (e.g. inside the main menu).
• Survey — limit the menu to one survey, or leave as All surveys.
• Ordering — position relative to other menus in the same location.
• Title and Description — the description is just a note for other administrators.
• Position — Sidemenu (left side), Collapsed menu (icons only), Top bar, or Bottom bar.

Editing uses the same form via the green button in the Action column. Deleting a menu (red trash button) also deletes all its entries. Reset restores the default menus and discards all custom ones — take a database backup first if your menu setup matters to you; there is no separate menu-only backup.

Example: to swap the side menu (the main menu) and the collapsed icon menu (the quick menu), set the main menu's position to Collapsed menu and the quick menu's to Sidemenu.

Managing menu entries

A new menu is empty until you add entries. Switch to the Personalized menu entries tab on the same Account page. Here you can create, edit, delete, reorder, and reset entries.

To create an entry, fill in the key fields:

• Menu — which menu the entry belongs to.
• Name (the internal name) and Title (the label shown in the menu).
• Ordering — position within the menu (change values, then click Reorder).
• Menu title (the heading shown on the target page) and Menu name (the hover tooltip).
• Menu icon — a Font Awesome icon name without the fa fa- prefix (e.g. floppy-o).
• Menu link — the admin URL the entry opens.
• Permission / Permission grade — restrict who sees the entry.

Reset behaves as for menus: all custom entries are lost after confirmation.