[Research] Admin navigation architecture audit

[SteelWagstaff]

The Pressbooks admin interface has a wide variety of menus in the top nav bar, some of which only apply for super admins/network managers, and others which contain links to features like 'my catalog' which are no longer places we want to send and direct users.

In addition, each of these menus loads a new 'dashboard' -- for the network itself, for the network root site, and/or for an individual book. The similarity of each of these dashboards (and their complexity) often leads to confusion and can be a major pain point, especially for new network managers.

We want to simplify the navigation menus and dashboard links so that they provide a cleaner, smoother, more enjoyable experience for all users. Both the top nav bar and the left hand 'dashboard menus' in scope for research & refinement.

See https://github.com/pressbooks/private/issues/674 for one past effort & some problems encountered.

TODO:

• [ ] Describe all the links/options that a super admin currently sees and make list of which links they should see and a taxonomy/structure for these links/actions Top nav bar: Network Admin dashboard:

• [ ] Describe all the links/options that a network manager currently sees and make list of which links they should see and a taxonomy/structure for these links/actions (some of these will be different for open source users, as they don't have the pressebooks-network-analytics plugin)

• [ ] Describe all the links/options that a regular book admin currently sees and make list of which links they should see & a taxonomy/structure for these links/actions

• [ ] Describe all the links/options that a regular book editor/author/contributor sees and make list of which links they should see & a taxonomy/structure for these links/actions

[SteelWagstaff]

See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gSUCQeS1bFKSjLCMUERypgFqTtcZC9HcChq2LkFRp1c/edit#heading=h.w2fplxnvcxhe for a template with some initial work by Michelle.