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A coherent/united menu
August 03, 2008, 11:29:25 pm
Hi,

One thing that is confusing for new users is the menu interface, with things spread between the "real" civi menu on the dashboard (meaning you have to come back to the dashboard all the time), and on the drupal blocks (with the more sub items being displayed only when you are in the module, eg subitems for civievent)

What about replacing all that and put everything in one menu bar (the classical GUI), with :
- Contact
-- Create new... (individual/org/household)
-- Search
-- Add activity
-- ...
- Event
- Mailing
- Administration

Basically, taking the existing items and reshuffle them, and leave them accessible on the menu all the time.
Does it make sense ?
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Re: A coherent/united menu
August 04, 2008, 12:43:19 pm
I tend to agree that the menu(s) need to be revisited. At some point we may also need them to be admin-configurable since I suspect that different organizations will have different needs / ideas of what menu structure works best for their users.

There was a tentative Google Summer of Code project to create a DHTML-based menu for CiviCRM - but it wound up not happening. So any of these changes will need to happen in 2.2+

The menu redesign will need to take account of Drupal vs. Joomla vs. Standalone environments.

Issues such as "how are sub-menu's exposed" need to be addressed. Are these expanded visible at all times - or only when user clicks some icon to view the sub-menu items. (I think being able to see sub-menu items w/o navigating to that component or main menu is a good thing.)

Perhaps you could mockup a proposed re-design on a wiki page and we can start getting folks thinking about it ahead of 2.2 planning.
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Re: A coherent/united menu
August 05, 2008, 01:42:36 am
Hi,

Beside technical limitations, what would be the argument NOT to provide the sub menues (ie. visible on mouse over..) all the times ?

And yes, being able to customise the menu/submenues make sense, both to hide unused features, and to add extra one (eg a custom "add a contact" profile). Providing a default menu template and let admins override it ?
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