Make it easier to add items to menus

There was already an appropriate block view for clubs/departments/teams but it didn't seem to appear anywhere, so this might be a bug.

Here's a patch that puts it in the sidebar when viewing either a group type parent page (i.e. Student Life) or a group. This is also handy as it allows a user to backtrack to a group page easily from viewing a group node.

My thought in excluding them from the sidebar was that it could become too crowded if a school had, say, 50 departments on their site.

Yes, actually, I see your point :-/

Been thinking about this as I expect with even the first site I might build with this, I'll get a question like, for example, 'Can I have a links page as well as club pages in the Student section'.

One solution I suppose would be to alter the text of 'Clubs' to 'Pages', so that each group is a 'section' as opposed to specifically a club. Of course, if one of those pages is 'Clubs', you could no longer have separate group managers for each club, even though you can have nested pages in an og_menu. Can only think of using og_subgroups, but that looks to be a long way off 7.x-2.x compatibility with OG or indeed a stable 7.x release.

Of course, apart from things like 'clubs' and 'departments' other content could probably just be non-groups, so perhaps something like book module could be used to add sub-pages to the container pages like 'Student Life'. The downside there would be the inability to set content editorial ownership through OG, though.

(Though if you do create "classes", you might consider creating a feature set for it so that other users can download and use that functionality!)

Actually that was a rubbish example of mine, I suppose classes could be Departments!

It seemed I needed to have another play with this today, but having tried it, I'm still not sure how the secondary menu for each of the main sections is populated. I suppose this relates to #1517050: Document how to use group posts.

I wasn't completely sure what you meant but thought it might relate to structuring the main section secondary menus with either 'group posts' or 'administrative units' depending on whether or not I want to add share-able/structured areas (i.e. groups that can have membership and subsections through og_menu, using 'administrative units') or simple single owner pages (i.e. group posts).

However, with 'administrative units', when creating them, I only have the option to place them in the primary links menu. With group posts, I don't have the option to place them in a menu at all.

With both, if I remember to take note of the path immediately after creating them, I can add them to the group menus fine, but this doesn't seem particularly user friendly?

This could work quite well with the autocomplete in #1516446: Autocomplete for internal links for nivo slider link fields (or something like it).

#8 could be a good way of immediately flagging a newly created node to a menu.

Using an autocomplete helper (if it were moved to julio_core) -> from the 'manage menus' admin UI in a group, we would also be able to reference existing nodes to a group menu, or external links, in a user friendly way.

Related: #475968: Path helper interface for menu module

Seems there are 3 general suggestions for better menu usability

1. An autocomplete helper in menu administration
2. Improving ability to add items to menus from the node
3. Ability to add items within the currently active menu item (i.e. prepopulated)

I actually think having all three wouldn't hurt. I suppose 2) is what you're planning on, @jgraham

Related: #1586410: Better interface for creating menu links pointing to existing content

Also found this: http://drupal.org/project/content_menu

extended query on how to add group types