Collective MetaNav

This product allows Plone sites to create and manage a navigation system for their website that doesn't need to match the actual hierarchy of the site. This can allow administrators to create alternative navigation structures for their content, such as in audience-based navigation schemes. Visitors to a site can be led to content they might otherwise have difficulty finding.

Project Description

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Overview

The product consists of 3 parts:

1. Menu Management

A series of content types that allow administrators to create a 2-level navigation hierarchy which contains navigation items that represent menus to internal and external content.

The hierarchy is easily managed as folders and sub-folders, with menu content-types representing the menu items within those folders.

A new NavigationManager role has been created to allow users to be able to manage pending menu items, as well as management of the navigation hierarchy.

2. User Interface

A user-interface for content-editors to request that their content be added/removed from the navigation.

Content editors will see a new "global navigation" tab for the piece of content they are editing.  This tab allows them to request that a menu be created in a specific part of the hierarchy that points to the piece of content they are editing.

Content editors can also request that a link be created to an external URL, or request that an existing navigation menu be removed.

Workflow allows menu requests for additions/deletions wait in a "pending" or "pending removal" state.

3. Vanilla Theme

A vanilla theme that generates the hierarchical navigation that can be used in a home page template.  The theme includes javascript open/collapse functionality and CSS.

Navigation items can be categorized as either "top" or "side" to allow navigation to appear in one of two places -- often the top or left side.

Google Analytics can be added to track usage of the menus and determine which menu items are most active.

About

This project sponsored by the University of Washington.
  Cris Ewing

  Department of Radiology Web Services

  University of Washington

  School of Medicine

  E-mail: cewing at u.washington.edu

Plone Development by Web Collective, Inc. and UW Radiology

  Cris Ewing: cewing at u.washington.edu

  Brian Gershon: briang at webcollective.coop

  Bryan Wilson: bryanw at webcollective.coop

Licensing

Licensed under GPL 2.0