Persistent Menu Best Practice

[bennanio]

What's the best way to have a persistent menu in iX? From what I can tell, there seems to be two ways to populate a the same menu onto many screens. Either create a template screen, or set it up in a background screen.
Setting it up as a background is definitely easiest from what I can tell but there's just one problem. I want my menu to be displayed on top of any other content and in testing I've found that (regardless of z-index values) background screen content is always below foreground screen content.
The problem with using templates is I'm not actually re-using the same menu everywhere, I'm creating multiple instances of it. I can't goto one place and make changes that affect all my screens.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious, are there other(better) ways to do this?

[mark.monroe]

No, you are correct. Those are the only two ways to have menus on multiple screens. And using a template doesn't mean you are using the same menu.