Feature #22069
openGroups Submenu design
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HI All,
I have been working with several faculty over the last few weeks who are using groups to teach. For some reason, they have all been confused by the layout/design of the groups Manage sub-menu. I think the main point of confusion is that they don't understand that submenu (in green in screenshot) is essentially a drop down submenu of the manage option.
I am hoping we might talk through some design options to make this menu more visibly to the main nav menu in a group, maybe be using a gray background and gray "tab" background behind "manage" to connect the menus visually.
I would also like to suggest we remove "digital research tools" from the group "manage" menu. DRT are not widely used and, as far as i can tell, the DRT disable/enable option does not change anything about the group.
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Updated by Laurie Hurson 2 months ago
Updated by Colin McDonald 2 months ago
Thanks Laurie, I am adding Sara as a watcher and adding this to our agenda for Friday.
Updated by Sara Cannon 2 months ago
- File navigation-1.png navigation-1.png added
Thank you for surfacing this - I love actual user feedback so this is really important.
Here is an option - do you think something like this would address their concerns?
Updated by Raymond Hoh 2 months ago
About the "Manage > Digital Research Tools" menu, we still have the Tapor Client plugin activated, which is why this menu item is showing up. Boone, do we still need this plugin activated? If so, I can write a code snippet to remove this menu item. If not, let's deactivate the Tapor Client plugin.
For the new styling for the Groups submenu, we would probably want to mirror the same change to the Users submenu too right?
Updated by Raymond Hoh 2 months ago
- Related to Feature #17416: Sunsetting Digital Research Tools feature added
Updated by Raymond Hoh about 2 months ago
- File Group Tabs - Manage.png Group Tabs - Manage.png added
- File User Tabs - Account Settings.png User Tabs - Account Settings.png added
I've attached some in-progress screenshots of the revised tab design for both a group's Manage page and a user's Account Settings page.
Sara, I made one change to the design and that is to extend the line underneath the subnav to the entire page. I think this gives the layout a bit more of a delineation, but let me know what you think about this. I can revert back to the mockup if you think the floating line is better.
Updated by Raymond Hoh about 1 month ago
I've committed the new submenu design to a new Git branch: feature/22069-new-submenu. Once we have a dev site up-and-running, we can get the team to test out the change.
In the meantime, I've removed the "Manage > Digital Research Tools" tab from the group tabs in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/415b2fbf654fd719e96985e92b8a9830634901cc.
Updated by Boone Gorges about 1 month ago
- Target version set to 2.6.0
Thanks, Ray! Moving this into the next major release milestone, though the hidden 'Digital Research Tools' will be part of today's maintenance release.