Manual:Extension/MenuEditor

Menu types

The user interface provides 3 customizable menus:

1. Main navigation
2. Custom menu
3. User menu

Main navigation

The main navigation is displayed on all content pages in the wiki and does not change in individual namespaces.

Up to v.4.2, only the standard MediaWiki sidebar is available. By default, some links are provided as entry points to the wiki. Wiki administrators can deactivate these links in the configuration manager if needed. In addition, you can also add new links below the entrypoints (admin permissions required). Please note that no hierarchical links can be created. Therefore, it makes sense to mainly set up links to the most important topics and to portal pages that contain additional links or page lists.

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  Main navigation BlueSpice 4.4+

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  Main navigation BlueSpice -4.3

Editing the main navigation (v.4.1-4.2)

BlueSpice 4.3

Starting BlueSpice 4.3, four different menu settings are available. Administrators can select a menu type in the Config manager.

All four types optionally show a list of pre-defined Entry points.

MediaWiki sidebar

This is the standard view of the sidebar. It displays custom menu items with no hierarchical structure.

Namespace main page list

This view automatically displays the Main Page of each content namespace.

• No combination with other menu elements is possible.

Subpage tree (context-sensitive)

This view automatically shows the subpages of a page if that page has subpages. Multi-level subpages are supported.

• No combination with other menu elements is possible.

Enhanced MediaWiki sidebar

This view shows a fully customizable multi-hierarchical menu. It can consist of the following elements:

Custom menu

In BlueSpice 4, an additional custom menu is integrated as a mega menu. This menu can be created and edited by users with admin rights. The link-icon (1) is only displayed once the corresponding page has been created.

If you don't see the menu icon in your wiki, create the following page: MediaWiki:CustomMenu/Header

Custom menu: (1) open menu, (2) edit link, (3) menu items

Editing the custom menu

User menu

Users can customize their personal navigation menu. The mega menu can be opened by clicking on the profile picture in the top toolbar. The user menu consists of two sections: Customizable links and Personal tools. Only the customizable links can be edited.

user menu

By default, the menu shows the following information:

• Pages visited (widget PAGESVISITED)
• My edits (widget YOUREDITS)

These widgets can be removed individually when a user customizes the sidebar.

Editing the user menu

Technical Reference: MenuEditor

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