[#38335] - Collapse submenu items in backend menu overview
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- 2 Sep 2023
- Medium
- Build: 4.2
- # 38335
Feature Request
Let the Menu item in the Backend View List make collapseable.
Problem that I want to solve
During maintaining website which an very large number of menuitems it is really difficult to find the korrekt menu-item, even if they have the same name, like an contact Page for every different part of the website. So you can filter by level or name, but the problem is, you are not able to see the context.
Idea to solve it
make the menu-items which has ab child collapsable, so you can close all the areas which are not necessary to see during your actual task. I think this will be make it easier to maintain websites with 50+ menu-items.
Sorry for the first to short version of the issue
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Large category trees are indeed a challenge. You suggest a tree appearance and this could be better than now but is a big task.
I could imagine an additional filter for the parent category instead.
Yes category tree’s are although sometimes a bit stupid. But I think if you solve this problem for menu tree’s it will be easy to adopt for categories.
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Is tthis the type of thing you are looking for?
It shouldnt be too hard to create as we already have all the information about the level and the parents in the row as data attributes
Hey Brian, yes, this is the desired behavior
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It shouldnt be too hard to create as we already have all the information about the level and the parents in the row as data attributes
Yes the information about the level is allready in the element
I really like the concept.
2 things that come to mind (but I am sure it was thought out already, I just want to make sure it is written here):
- we need an icon for the 'open' state and an icon for the 'closed' state,
- we need to test how it will affect pagination (depends on the implementation)
pagination will be tricky when you get groups split by pagination. Thats one of the reasons I wanted to see if there was interest in the concept before continuing
This behavior (open/close of parent) is expected from users, and I do think it can bring some ease of use to the view.
However, if we go that route, that behavior should be extended to all the views that have trees (tags, categories to name a few) for consistency. If a solution could be found that would also allow third party extensions to use it as well, it would be a great addition to the user interface.
Agreed
Should be just as easy to apply to all tree views and as its just a markup change then extension developers could do the same when documented on manuals.joomla.org
we need to test how it will affect pagination (depends on the implementation)
Perhaps we set the limit to infinity when there are entries collapsed, because it is not necessary to paginate the entries.
I just added the code to add this feature to Joomla 5. I hope somebody will test this feature.
| Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2023-09-02 21:53:29 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | richard67 | |
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From talks in the German Glip channel i know that this issue is a feature request for the menu item list view. From the few words in the description this is absolutely not clear.