Updated dashboard menu - looking for feedback!
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Because of my own neuroses, I really felt that I was wasting time clicking through to second-tier pages within the dashboard when I knew precisely where I wanted to go. And thus, the dashboard quick nav was born!
I just added a few lines of code to generate a subnav for each dashboard item and a little bit of css to keep it clean. I think the result is a tasteful and functional upgrade, but I would love some feedback.
The zip includes two files: a modified "dashboard.php" and an accompanying css file. You just drop them into your /themes/core/ and viola, your dashboard is now a little bit handier.
This is my first actual contribution back into the community thus far, and it's amazingly minor, but I'm looking for a bit of feedback and help on how I could include it into a package and also make it a bit more future proof. I am also working on doing the same functionality within the "Edit" bar on the front-end as well; once that is finished and I can figure out the ins and outs of packaging all of this up cleanly, I'll submit it to the marketplace.
Cheers!
I just added a few lines of code to generate a subnav for each dashboard item and a little bit of css to keep it clean. I think the result is a tasteful and functional upgrade, but I would love some feedback.
The zip includes two files: a modified "dashboard.php" and an accompanying css file. You just drop them into your /themes/core/ and viola, your dashboard is now a little bit handier.
This is my first actual contribution back into the community thus far, and it's amazingly minor, but I'm looking for a bit of feedback and help on how I could include it into a package and also make it a bit more future proof. I am also working on doing the same functionality within the "Edit" bar on the front-end as well; once that is finished and I can figure out the ins and outs of packaging all of this up cleanly, I'll submit it to the marketplace.
Cheers!
It sounds like the CSS isn't in the right place. Both the dashboard.php and the dashboard_quicknav.css should be in /themes/core/ (not concrete/themes/core). I just dropped them in a 5.4.2 site I have up and seemed to work fine (I tried Chrome/FF on Mac as well).
the issue is you're not accounting for subdomains (rooot/concrete) in th links as well as the stylesheet. if you remove the / at the beggining of the css path it should work.
once I got it working it looks pretty good though.
I like this looks nice :thumbs up: from me
Any chance we could get a screenshot? I'm on the mobile device now and can't install anything; however, this sounds like a pretty sweet mod to the dashboard.
Here's a screenshot. I was trying to figure out a way to package this (and a mod to the dashboard button on the front end edit bar eventually) so it would install cleanly and have compatibility after upgrades. Any thoughts?
You might want to talk to ChadStrat. He's done this before.
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/chat/nuvo-concrete/...
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/chat/nuvo-concrete/...
Wow, I was already kicking around the idea of doing some dashboard re-skinning and he did a really great job of it. I'll be very interested to see what comes with the supposed 5.5 dashboard revamp.
Btw, no dashboard mods will be accepted at least until after 5.5.
I placed the "core" directory in my site's "themes" directory (not in "concrete/themes").