Hi all!

I need to import a lot of menu items with 2-3-4 nesting levels

I don't understand how to set parent in the CSV file and in the Feeds Mapping

Please help

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ivnish created an issue. See original summary.

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eugene bocharov commented

Same here. If anybody knows if it's possible please share.

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megachriz
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Title: Menu link parent » Add a FeedsTarget plugin for "menu_link_content:parent" to import hierachical menus
Category: Support request » Feature request

I've tried setup a feed type with the "Custom menu link" processor.

I also manually created a menu with a link and a child link. I inspected the child link with the Devel module and looked what the value for "parent" was:

[parent] => Array
(
  [x-default] => menu_link_content:92051065-e301-4d76-aa92-58ad8b1e9b20
)

So the first issue is that parent does not contain the ID of the parent menu link, but a string consisting of what seems to be the link's bundle (or subtype) and the parent menu link's UUID.

The Custom Menu Links module declares the property "parent" as a string:

$fields['parent'] = BaseFieldDefinition::create('string')
  ->setLabel(t('Parent plugin ID'))
  ->setDescription(t('The ID of the parent menu link plugin, or empty string when at the top level of the hierarchy.'));

This makes Feeds think it is just a simple text field with no special meaning. That's the second issue. The module has special cased this property and Feeds has no way of knowing that.

Long story short, importing a menu hierarchy with Feeds is not yet possible. To achieve this, a FeedsTarget plugin should be written especially for the menu link parent property.