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The present disclosure teaches how to create a self-service content menu that enables individual providers to add menu paths to a content menu and links to their content on a network. Using password protection access the present invention controls what menu changes end-users can make. As a general p

The present disclosure teaches how to create a self-service content menu that enables individual providers to add menu paths to a content menu and links to their content on a network. Using password protection access the present invention controls what menu changes end-users can make. As a general purpose technology applications of the present invention include self-service content menus build and managed by users that range from the single user to a community of users on an Intranet or at a portal site.

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1. A self-service component of a content management system on a network consisting of, creating an open hierarchical data structure consisting of links and topic nodes that form paths to information objects linked to topic nodes at the bottom of said open hierarchical data structure, displaying a c

1. A self-service component of a content management system on a network consisting of, creating an open hierarchical data structure consisting of links and topic nodes that form paths to information objects linked to topic nodes at the bottom of said open hierarchical data structure, displaying a content menu based on said open hierarchical data structure, navigating links on said network and locating a relevant information object using a browser, associating a network address with said relevant information object, executing said self-service component from said browser, displaying a configuration interface associated with said self-service component, fetching an end-user input from said configuration interface that represents a set of topics in a path proposed for said open hierarchical data structure, checking each topic in said end-user input for an existing topic node in said open hierarchical data structure, adding a topic node to said open hierarchical data structure that does not duplicate said existing topic node, linking said topic node to said relevant information object, displaying said relevant information object when selecting said topic node in said content menu.