When creating or moving menus, users need a menu preview/demo page.

Created on 22 May 2011, over 13 years ago
Updated 30 January 2024, 11 months ago

Problem/Motivation

When creating menus, users are unable to preview where the menus are located.

Proposed resolution

Provide a demo/preview page for menus similar to the blocks demo page.

Remaining tasks

  • List the major challenges
  • Propose solutions to the challenges

According to post #3, a preview of the location of a menu would be a very challenging task. One reason for this is that menu blocks can be controlled by other modules like Panels and Quicktabs.

User interface changes

  • add Preview menu link(s) to /admin/structure/menu
  • add Preview menu link(s) to /admin/structure/menu/manage/"menu name"/edit

API changes

To be determined

Original report by estenrick

// Text of original report here.
(for legacy issues whose initial post was not the issue summary)

Throughout testing, users had an expectation to have live, visually-oriented previews of their options. Several participants specifically requested this for menus. Two other observations were connected with this task (since we believed solving the menu preview would also solve the other issues).

- Difficulty differentiating between menus and menu items led to particpants' difficulty creating or moving menu items.

- After adding a menu link to the navigation menu, the new link is not noticed. Without noticing it, users think it failed.

Possible recommendation was:
Provide visual representation of different menus.

✨ Feature request
Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

9.5

Component
Menu moduleΒ  β†’

Last updated 2 months ago

Created by

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States estenrick

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  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States smustgrave

    I wonder if this is a valid request still, doesn't appear to have much interest with 10+ years of inactivity. Not sure how you can preview a menu as a menu could be placed and used in different locations.

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