#5663 - Menu too long in Admin Zone > Setup > Configuration

By Master Rat
Added 3rd Apr 2024, 11:55 AM
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Identifier	#5663
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Menu too long in Admin Zone > Setup > Configuration
Status	Open
Tags	Roadmap: Over the horizon (custom)
Handling member	Deleted
Version	11 alpha1
Addon	core_menus
Description	In the control panel under "Setup" then "Configuration", I may be just a bit picky here but it drops down and is a very long list and you are forced to scroll down and hope the menu doesn't close. Maybe move some to a third level menu???
Steps to reproduce	Control panel the select "Setup" and click or such and the menu under "configuration" drops well beyond the bottom of my screen.
Funded?	No

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By Guest posted 3rd Apr 2024, 11:57 AM

This is on the mouse-over condition,

By Guest posted 3rd Apr 2024, 12:02 PM

You can click on "Configuration" to be taken to a do-next screen/page.

By Guest posted 3rd Apr 2024, 12:24 PM

That "I" understand but to a new user this might get frustrating to see the menu disappear and not knowing how to keep it and scroll down...

By Guest posted 3rd Apr 2024, 12:28 PM

I'll have to think on this. I don't know of an easy solution. I could simply not make a menu appear if more than x items exist, forcing the user to click on the parent and thus have to go to that screen. But I can think of a few reasons not to do this / how this would frustrate users for other reasons.

Ideally we would switch to using mega-menus. But that would be a major theme project. Not something we have time for in v11.0 but maybe a later minor version of 11.

Best solution I can think of is for menus to be click-activated instead of hover-activated, and then disable disappearing the menu if the cursor moves away (instead make it disappear if clicking outside the menu)

Suggestions are welcome.

By Guest posted 23rd Jul 2024, 11:19 AM

The subitems consist of standard config categories, and other links. Some of the other links could be moved...
- Installation Options -- probably leave where-is
- Configure field filters -- could move to a new Advanced Configuration module and no long be shown from the start screen for the admin_config module
- Configure breadcrumb overrides -- ditto
- Configure advanced banning -- ditto
- Composr upgrader -- Probably should just move out to the Tools menu and no long be shown from the start screen for the admin_config module
- Code editor -- ditto
- RSS/Atom Feeds -- Probably should just move out to the Content menu and no long be shown from the start screen for the admin_config module