Submenu for less important models?

[heri]

Hi

I am looking to use administrate for a healthcare site. There are many models, and I am looking to have a main right menu, clicking on a main model would expand on additional models.

For example:

- Users
- Categories
- Services
- Conversations
- Transactions

When the user clicks on conversations then it would show :

- Users
- Categories
- Services
- Conversations
   * Messages
   * Bookings
- Transactions

Same for transactions which would then show transactions_processes transitions shipping addresses payments checkout_accounts, and so on.

The benefit is to show a simpler interface when the user logs in, but still being able to have a more complex interface, if required.

Has anyone done something similar? What would be the optimal way to do this?

Thank you

[heri]

I have an array in DashboardManifest

  MINOR = [
    :listings,
    :listing_availabilities,
    :messages,
    :locations,
    :transactions,
    :testimonials
  ]

and have added padding for those "minor" models (see commit )

But still wondering if someone had done something more elegant

Thank you

[c-lliope]

Hello, Heri!

I think the best way for you to do this would be to copy the sidebar template into your host application, at app/views/admin/application/_sidebar.html.erb, and make the customizations in your host application instead of in your fork of Administrate.

You can also copy over application.scss into your app/assets/stylesheets/administrate/application.scss for custom stylesheets.

To make this process easier, I'm adding generators to copy over the files automatically. (#269)

[carlosramireziii]

@heri

#269 has been merged so you can now generate the sidebar view with the following command

rails generate administrate:views:sidebar

See the documentation for more information.

[neidiom]

How do we handle this issue in 2021?

[pablobm]

Nowadays, the generator is called administrate:views:navigation.