# Organizing actions in menus

As your list of actions will grow, you most probably will want to organize them into menus, submenus, and so on.

In order to create a new menu, choose File New menu .

A menu may be created anywhere in the list of your actions, but inside of an action (i.e. not between two profiles of an action).

As an action, the exact place where a new menu will be inserted depends on the current sort order:

Manual order:

  The new menu is inserted just before the current action or menu.

  This place will not change when you later modify the label of the menu.

Ascending (resp. descending) alphabetical order:

  The new menu is inserted at the correct place, regarding the default &laquosp;`New Nautilus menu`&spraquo; label.

  This place will be automatically changed, each time you modify the label of the menu.

As an action, too, a menu requires a label, and may have an icon and a tooltip. Also, you may define some conditions in order your menu be candidate to be displayed in &nautilus; context menu. If the defined conditions are not met at runtime, then your whole menu, including its submenus, its actions and so on, will not be displayed.