One Islandora Admin Menu to Rule Them All

[manez]

A thought: One of the things I really liked about moving from Islandora 6 to Islandora 7 was having the administrative/configuration options move from being scattered all over their "drupal" homes across various admin menus, and into a single "Islandora" menu in the admin menu. We've got an Islandora section in admin/config, but it doesn't hold all things Islandora.

Questions:

1. Can we stick all Islandora stuff under a single heading in the admin menu? Is this even technically doable with the current architecture?
2. Should we? It's convenient, but I suspect it's also less Drupal-y, and while it might make things easier for a typical Islandora user, would it make it harder for a typical Drupal user who is exploring Islandora (a use case we hope to foster more of)?

[mjordan]

I wonder if we use Drupal's menu shortcuts to assemble a bunch of menu links for this purpose? And if so, can it be exported as config so we could bundle a basic version of it with the Islandora module?

Also, we have discussed the idea of a dashboard... :thinking:

[mjordan]

https://www.drupal.org/project/shortcut_menu ?

[manez]

I very much like the idea of a dashboard. Takes it from "Let's make this part as good as it was in 7.x" to "let's make it even better"

But I will pull down that module and play around with it.

[mjordan]

A dashboard could also include some chart reports....

[dannylamb]

Maybe we could even add an "upload file" button?

[alexkent0]

I am very much in favor of an admin dashboard, that makes thing even better. +1

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I very much like the idea of a dashboard. Takes it from "Let's make this part as good as it was in 7.x" to "let's make it even better"

But I will pull down that module and play around with it.

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[rosiel]

suggestions from I8 call:

• do we need different permissions for different parts of the menu? There was a D7 dashboard that had some great flexibility... https://www.drupal.org/project/user_dashboard (-Willow)
• can we do it with blocks (as the Lightning distro does) to use the block display conditions? (-Alexander)

[alxp]

The module I mentioned in the call today was Moderation Dashboard. It lets an administrator arrange blocks for different roles that can serve the needs of each role.

This is basically an example of what you can do with Views and Panels and Page Manager, so we can even just use it as an example of how this customizability is done, without needing to be married to the content moderation workflows. But if you want different UIs for different users, it's probably time to bring in either Panels or Layout Builder.

https://www.drupal.org/project/moderation_dashboard

[mjordan]

And another repository dashboard:

https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2020/07/10/release-of-the-new-core-repository-dashboard/

It's specific (or at least leans toward) UK IRs, but it's a nice model.

[mjordan]

Horsing around and mocked up (i.e. pasted in screenshots of charts) this dashboard incorporating some charts from Islandora Repository Reports: