MenusPlugin

Description

• add items to navigation menus
• hierachical organization(using Superfish - http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/ )

PS: - CSS work might be needed to fit your trac theme.

Demo

See it in action: http://code.optaros.com/trac/oforge/

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for MenusPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download, Source

Download the zipped source, check out MenusPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Configuration

As usual, configuration takes place in the trac.ini file. Most interesting things first - they are to be found in the [mainnav] section: Here you set up your menu items. Syntax is: <item_name>.<property> = <value> - where <item_name> is either the already existing handler (e.g. "wiki" for the wiki item, "tickets" for the tickets, "newticket" for the "New Ticket" item, a.s.o.) - or a term which must not exist for a brand new item to be introduced (as e.g. the "Team Tools" in the Examples section). A special case is e.g. top to make a new item appearing on top level.

Defining your menus in the [mainnav] section

So here come the available properties and their possible values:

Property	Description	Example value
parent	Make the item a sub-item to the one mentioned as value	top
label	What should be written on the "button"	Team Tools
href	Where the item should link to	/report/1
enabled	Must be set to 1 for self defined items to be shown. Can be set to 0 to (temporarily) disable an item.	1
hide_if_no_children	Don't display this (sub) menu if it has no children (e.g. the current user lacks the privileges for all sub-items)	1
perm	For items like reports, hide_if_disabled does not work, since this is no component. Though, it should not be displayed if it is not available. So you can handle this by defining the required permission.	REPORT_VIEW
order	Move an item to the left/right. By default, all items have an order of 999 (who will ever reach 999 items must have done something wrong, really!). Use values from 1..999 to define positions. Use a negative value for an item you want to make sure it always comes first - and a value larger than 999 if it sould always come last.	5
path_info	String to be matched with the request path info to decide whether a menu item should be displayed. Useful for context dependent items (e.g. in the ctxnav)	/wiki

Menu options:

• inherit: Useful when a menu should receive items from another menu

   # dummy example - add mainnav items to context menu.
   [ctxtnav]
   inherit= mainnav
    
  

Defining the behaviour in the [menu-custom] section

Here you can (re-)define (i.e. customize) the behavior of MenusPlugin. Usually, you won't need that - since the defaults are fine. But in case you need a toy to play with - here we go:

Syntax is quite easy, it's just <option> = <value>. Available options are:

Option	Description	Default
managed_menus	Which menus should be maintained by the plugin.	mainnav,metanav
serve_ui_files	Whether the required UI files (i.e. *.js and *.css files) should be linked into the page. Boolean value.	1

The serve_ui_files option you will only need to override if you want to apply your own styles and need to suppress the original ones for this. Rare case - but who knows?

Example

Demo config:

...
[components]
tracmenus.* = enabled

[mainnav]
# Create a new top-level element for "Team Tools" - make sure to set it to "enabled" or it doesn't show up!
teamtools = enabled
teamtools.parent = top
teamtools.label  = Team Tools
# Do not display this menu if it has no children (e.g. visitor has no permission to any)
teamtools.hide_if_no_children = 1
# Now add the discussion plugin here
discussion = enabled
discussion.parent = teamtools
# Add the worklog here as well
worklog.parent = teamtools

# Add more things...
...

# rename "Browse Source" to "Code"
browser.label = Code
# Add some entry points to the code browser
code_trunk = enabled
code_trunk.parent=browser
code_trunk.href=/browser/trunk
code_trunk.label=Trunk

# this is no component - so to hide it if not available, we need a trick
code_trunk.perm = BROWSER_VIEW

# Add some reports to the ticket item
special_report = enabled
special_report.parent=tickets
special_report.href=/report/7
special_report.label=My Tickets
# same trick as above required here
special_report.perm=REPORT_VIEW

# Some more things
wiki.parent=top
browser.parent=top

# unassigned is a reserved keyword:
# - if present, all other items not specified in config section will appear as sub-items under unassigned item. 
# - if not present, all other items will appear as top items.
unassigned = enabled
unassigned.href=/wiki
unassigned.label=Tools
...

# Make sure the Wiki is always the first item - and Admin always the last:
wiki.order = -999999
admin.order = 999999

Screenshots

Recent Changes

[5046] by cbalan on 12/22/08 14:13:56

MenusPlugin: - Applied #4264 patch. Thank you Izzy

[5035] by cbalan on 12/20/08 18:45:53

MenusPlugin: - Replaced 'hide_if_disabled' with 'enabled'. Checkout documentation for more details. refs #4280

[5033] by cbalan on 12/19/08 14:35:29

MenusPlugin: - Setting default href='#'. refs #4264

[5021] by cbalan on 12/16/08 19:47:17

MenusPlugin: - More trac-alike look thanks to Izzy. refs #4290 #4264 #4274

Author/Contributors

Author: cbalan
Contributors: izzy