Create/Manage Additional Items in Left Menu of Back Office

It would be useful if we could create additional items to be displayed in the left menu of the Back Office.

The horizontal tabs created by metafields_schema labels are great, but depending on the requirements of a site, this area can get cluttered, as can the pages accessed via each tab.

I envisage something like the mockup below:

mockup-sidepanel

In terms of management, could it not continue to be managed via metafields_schema.yml? Perhaps each label/tab could have a 'group' property (similar to that in content_type fields). Each group would be a separate left menu item.

Example:

metafields:

  general_info:
    name:
    legal_name:
    incorporation_year:
    website_build_year:
    history:
    group: organisation_info

  address:
    unit_type:
    street_address: 
    suburb_rd: 
    town_city: 
    postcode:
    display_address:
    po_box:
    box_lobby:
    po_box_town_city:
    po_box_postcode:
    display_po_box:
    group: organisation_info

  phone:
    number_main:
    number_fax:
    number_mobile:
    number_free:
    display_number:
    nav_number:
    group: organisation_info

  google:
    analytics_type:
    tags:
    recaptcha_site_key:
    recaptcha_secret:
    map_api_key:
    map_place_id:
    map_zoom: '13'
    map_type: satellite
    map_display: bottom
    group: integrations

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Create/Manage Additional Items in Left Menu of Back Office #414