I've build a couple of Add-Ons that have a dashboard configuration page. Currently, during installation, these Add-Ons create a new 'Left Navigation Menu Item' (not sure what else to call it). For now, they both reference the same 'Left Navigation Menu Item'.


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Both of these packages will create a left navigation menu item labeled 'Package Group' and will be subpages of that menu item.

Still with me?

Here is the workflow:

1. Package_1 is installed and creates the 'Package Group' menu item
2. 'Package Group' is associated with package_1
3. Package_2 is installed, but sees the already created 'Package Group' menu item
4. 'Package Group' is not associated with package_2
5. I click on 'Package Group' in the left navigation and see both 'pkg_1_settings' and 'pkg_2_settings' sub-pages.

So far all is well with the installation.

6. I remove 'Package_1' from the site, which also removes the 'Package Group' menu item. There is no longer access to 'pkg_2_settings'. <--This is the issue

Is there a way to get around this issue? I don't really want to create multiple left navigation items that only contain one page, if I can help it.

Can new pages be added to existing, core left navigation items? Such as 'Sitewide Settings'?