Header megamenu: Menu links not explicitly connecting to their Promo

[jilladams]

Status

[2024-07-02] Slack message to Micah/Carol about transferring this ticket to their team repo for their Header/footer epic. [2024-02-16] Comment in ticket to Micah in DST: Here's a ticket for your team's consideration when they componentize the header/footer.

To Do Refinement session 1/9:

• make the changes on a lower environment
• spin up a tugboat to ensure nothing is broken
• Fran to reach out to CAIA with results and ask do they want to make the changes on prod or do they need help?

Description

https://dsva.slack.com/archives/CDHBKAL9W/p1696271256885979

In the megamenu, the benefit areas can be expanded, and include a Promo block, e.g.:

The Promo block used in the menu should ideally be connected to the menu item via Drupal. But in some cases, a menu item that is displaying a Promo block in the FE does not have that Promo block relationship set in the menu item > Related Promo field. (How is the FE getting the right block to display, without this field value? Great question: content-build is reverse engineering and grabbing related promo from the Benefit page itself, when needed. More notes: https://dsva.slack.com/archives/CDHBKAL9W/p1696272554275839?thread_ts=1696271256.885979&cid=CDHBKAL9W)

Menu: https://prod.cms.va.gov/admin/structure/menu/manage/header-megamenu Terms that display a Promo block in the FE, but do not have the value set in the Menu Item:

• Health care
• Careers / employment
• Pension
• Housing assistance
• Life insurance
• Records

User story

AS A Drupal maintainer I WANT to ensure that data connections are established correctly in Drupal SO THAT we don't accidentally regress the megamenu

Engineering / testing notes

It is probably simple to just select the right promo and set it in the Menu Items. But because the header works today without those field values, we want to test this locally first to make sure nothing breaks when we add the values to Drupal.

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] Promo blocks are set in Related Promo for each Megamenu item that shows a Promo block today in production
• [ ] Verified pre-prod that setting these Related Promo values does not break the megamenu

[jilladams]

It's a FE task to make sure content-build doesn't get weird once these block values are added, but might need CMS people help to get that data local for testing? Not clear to me.

[FranECross]

@FranECross Split into two tickets for FE and BE. FE estimate swag 2-3

[FranECross]

@micahchiang Here's a ticket for your team's consideration when they componentize the header/footer.