Menus

The menu system allows definition of multiple menus. Currently we use two:

• Main menu
• Top right menu

Each menu consists of menu sections and menu items. Menu sections can contain other menu sections and menu items.

The main menu styling supports 3 level, that is 2 levels of menu section. Menus are defined in app/presenters/menu/default_menu.rb

Menu Sections

Menu::Section.new(:clo, N_("Clouds"), 'fa fa-plus fa-2x', [

Menu sections looks like the example above. It consists of:

• Identifier,
• text,
• icon and
• items.

Identifier is the same as the RBAC feature that is checked when a decision is made whether or not the particular section is displayed.

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Menu section structure (tree) forms the base of the RBAC tree that is available in the Role Editor. (See RBAC features.)

Available menu section can be further limited on an appliance via PermissionStores. The YAML permission store checks the menu section identifier against a list of supported RBAC features effectively limiting what is available.

Items are a list of sections and items.

Menu Items

Menu::Item.new('miq_policy', N_('Explorer'), 'control_explorer', {:feature => 'control_explorer_view'}, '/miq_policy/explorer'),

Menu item consists of:

• Identifier,
• text,
• feature,
• rbac_feature hash,
• href,
• type

Identifier is used to identify menu items e.g. for styling the active menu item.

Text is similar to text in menu sections. It can also be a Proc to allow run-time altering of the displayed text.

Feature key is used in parent section calculation such as visibility of the parent section.

Rbac_feature is a hash that is passed to role_allows? call when decision is being made about displaying the menu item. In most cases, this is would contain just the key :feature that will match the feature.

Href is the URL that is opened when a menu item is clicked.

Type can be either :default or :big_iframe. We stick with the :default type which is default. The :big_iframe type is used for simple UI plugins.

Remembering last clicks

Each menu section remembers last GET request that was done “under” that menu section. Then if a user clicks a menu section (not a menu item) the last remembered GET request’s URL is opened so that the user lands where he last was “under” that menu section.

This requires a relationship between controller and menu section.

This relationship is declared by specifying the menu section in each controller whose GET request should be remembered under a menu section:

class FoobarController < ApplicationController
  menu_section :opt
...