Problem/Motivation

The 'Create' menu that is included with Navigation is based on a good idea, but in practice it is a bit clunky.

By default, it displays a variety of items that can be created, including content, media, redirects and users. This is very logical and an improvement on the previous structure, but it lacks consideration for priority or frequency. On many sites I have worked on, users almost never create media items outside of content, so having each type as an option here complicates the decision process unnecessarily.

Steps to reproduce

Install Drupal, then install the Navigation module.

Proposed resolution

#3457729: Grouping or prioritisation for items in create menu has a proposal to group the items, but that is only a minor improvement. It might work better as a shortcut-type link where users can select what gets added? Or it could be dynamic, showing commonly added entities, either per site or per user? Very much TBC and this can be considered a plan issue for now.

Remaining tasks

TBC

User interface changes

TBC

Introduced terminology

TBC

API changes

TBC

Data model changes

TBC

Release notes snippet

TBC

Comments

pameeela created an issue. See original summary.

benjifisher’s picture

benjifisher
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Related issues: +#3578196: Remove media and user links from the Content menu

Now that #3578196: Remove media and user links from the Content menu is RTBC, maybe we can close this issue as a duplicate.

berdir’s picture

berdir
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Location Switzerland
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Agreed with @pameeela in #3578196-17: Remove media and user links from the Content menu to close the grouping issue but not this one.

That said, I think this is a possible duplicate of #2377543: Add "Add" item to toolbar.. While that says "toolbar" in the issue title still, it's essentially the same problem space of a Create/Add overview page. This issue is pretty empty, so I'd suggest we repurpose the old one that has a lot of discussion and ideas to cover navigation.module instead of toolbar now?