# VASSAL Reference Manual

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## Sub-Menu

This trait allows you to cluster menu items associated with other traits into a sub-menu of the game piece's right-click menu. Provide the name of the menu and the name of the menu items that should be moved to the sub-menu. Sub-menus may contain other sub-menus to any nesting level.
Menu name: The name of the sub menu that will appear in the right-click menu.
Sub-commands The menu text of the traits that will be collected into this sub menu.
EXAMPLE: If a game piece has three separate layer traits with corresponding activate commands Entrench, Fortify, and Blockade, then those menu items can be gathered under a single sub-menu named Defense by creating a Sub-Menu trait with menu name "Defense" and sub-commands "Entrench", "Fortify" and "Blockade".
Pieces in a Game Piece Palette can be manipulated by anybody so long as no game is in progress.