Hi,

I just started using Drupal 6.
The core menu module splits up the menu's in the config pages, so when adding say a contact form, the menu item is hidden in the navigation list. Since this menu item is hidden by default its hard to find and edit. This is probably true for other menu items too.

This could be solved with an option to list all the menu items, and allowing the dragging between menus with the new draggable re-ordering (great feature BTW). I wonder if this would need to go in 7 not 6 ?

Drew

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pasqualle’s picture

pasqualle
Location 🇭🇺 Budapest
commented
Version: 6.3 » 7.x-dev
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

feature requests go to D7

I don't understand why it is hard to find a disabled menu item. The contact menu item is displayed on page admin/build/menu-customize/navigation, and also you can change the parent menu item easily by editing it.
Drag and drop is unusable with long lists..

I see this as a won't fix, but you can explain the request maybe I am missing something..

drew reece’s picture

drew reece commented

You and I both know it's in the navigation menu because we have used Drupal before.

If you are a newcomer to Drupal and activate the contact module, and add a contact form preset where do you go from there? There is no sign of the menu (it's disabled) the only option is to hunt through 3 pages (4 for me, since the devel module adds a menu) to find the contact menu item.

In Drupal 5.x at least the menu list contained all the items, though it was a little unwieldy, it was clear where it all was. Grouping the menus helps but finding a new menu item is more difficult than it should be IMO.

My thinking is that a list including 'all menu items' grouped by menu category (as was in Drupal 5.x) allows people to find then by doing a find within the browser.

Perhaps it is me missing something, I just thought it was a step backwards in terms of usability to newcomers.

Drew

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sun.core commented
Title: Allow list all menu items in Drupal 6 » UX: Make disabled menu items more apparent
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active
Issue tags: +Needs usability review, +Usability

Tagging.

Bojhan’s picture

Bojhan commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)
Issue tags: -Needs usability review

This has not come up in usability testing in the past few years..