External linking with dynamic menus

Create a dummy page in Plan view where you want the external link to appear in your menu, then right+click on the page to get the Context menu and from the "Menu Options" item choose "Include Page without Hyperlink". Then go to the menu item in your menu and use the Hyperlink control in the Control panel to assign the external URL.

Is this answer still correct? For some reason after the latest Muse Update, the hyperlink box is greyed out when you try this method. Can you make another suggestion how to assign external links to your main navigation? Thank you!

That is strange... the method above should work.... a work around is to create a transparent box ontop of you menu item and attach a hyperlink to the box.

This is a small video demonstrating what Zak has mentioned above, http://project02.businesscatalyst.com/Jing/2012-11-16_1627.swf

Could you please a share screen shot of how the hyperlink option looks like after you follow the same steps?

- Abhishek Maurya

OK, so how do I do this with a submenu item? I have a top level menu item "Our Sites" which drops down a list of sites to which I want the sub menu items to link. (Opening in a new window.) The site has well over 100 pages and I don't relish the idea of building a complete manual menu.

Thanks,

~Bob

I'm having difficulty adding external links to my dynamic menu, too. I followed the process shown in the link but when I get to the last step, there simply is no hyperlink option; nothing between the Effects control and the anchor button. One difference is that the selection box around my menu item is a dashed green line as opposed to the solid blue line shown in the video. Thanks.

Sounds like its a default menu that you're trying to link to an external URL. You need to use a Manual menu type in order to be able to Hyperlink it. Also, the green selection box just means that the menu is in a Layer with the color option set as green.

Thanks,

Vinayak

Ah, Thank you Vinayak. Got it now.

Is it working for Muse CC?

I can't find a place to enter my custom url link even I use the  "manual" option.

Click on "Add or filter links" right next to the Hyperlinks label in your screenshot.

Thanks for the response Zak.

I have made this menu bar manual but can´t put in an external url to the manually typed menu item because the field is dimmed out. Why?