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Authoritative front-end development resources for Calcite design initiative. Includes extendable base components and styles, as well as a modular and efficient framework for ArcGIS properties.
http://esri.github.io/calcite-web/
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Side Menu Tertiary Option & Visual Indicator #350

Closed bstifle closed 9 years ago

bstifle commented 9 years ago

@nikolaswise @paulcpederson @CassidyB @stieman

Side Menu Tertiary Option

There is a need in the Support.esri.com documentation that requires a third level of navigation. See the image below for something I've been working on.

Visual Indicator

Suggest a visual indicator for where the user is on the page in relation to the Side Menu. 2 examples are explored in the image below.

Let me know what you guys think! Thanks

sidemenu_suggestions

bstifle commented 9 years ago

Also, what is the current class for our side menus?

paulcpederson commented 9 years ago

currently we have the side-nav and the accordion for that use case.

We've been encouraging people to just use less depth but I think people may start inventing their own way to do this in each project, so it might be good to think about a multi-level accordion pattern. I think @nikolaswise may have already done some work there.

nikolaswise commented 9 years ago

This is tough. I think we may have lost the 'you dont really need that depth just go back and do better ia' battle. Will look into this.

I've seen users frustrated with the new doc that got rid of nested structures for a wacky implementation of side nav. And the users are correct.

Lloyd over at the JSAPI hacked calcite web into some other crazy sidenav thing for this too:

screen shot 2015-09-03 at 2 20 26 pm

I like @bstifle's comps more than this. Will explore.

nikolaswise commented 9 years ago

@bstifle Can you provide us the actual set of information you are working with? What is the simple text tree of the information architecture?

eg

- Level One Item
- Level One Item
  - Level Two Thing
  - Level Two Thing
    - Level Three Thing
    - Level Three Thing
      - Level Four Thing
      - Level Four Thing
  - Level Two Thing
- Level One Item
fgarofalo10 commented 9 years ago

we also have a nested side nav for My Esri... adding @richc117 @qhui-red @snelsonux

bstifle commented 9 years ago

adding @KenEdmondUX to this.

@nikolaswise I believe that is correct. Ken can confirm. Ken feel free to stop by if you need more context.

Edit*\ i believe there are only 3 'things' Ken will know

nikolaswise commented 9 years ago

@fgarofalo10 can you provide the same content tree for MyEsri?

bstifle commented 9 years ago

@nikolaswise Hey man, Ken confirmed that there are only 3 levels of detail for Support

nikolaswise commented 9 years ago

Can we get samples for that content?

nikolaswise commented 9 years ago

Working with @bstifle closer on examining the structure and IA of his content, the existing sample for API Reference is an effective solution.

Closing until examples of content that require deeper hierarchies surface.