Implemented Advanced Navigation Tabs and Sub-Tabs

[Neutral Singh]

I think there should be an admin option to add Admin Defined Tabs and then their Sub Tabs in the navigation menu like below:

Home > Members > Admin Defined Tab 1 > Admin Defined Tab 2 > Help
Admin Defined Sub Tab 1 > Sub Tab 2 > Sub Tab 3 > Sub Tab 4

In vbulletin, we have to do it manually in navbar template.

 

[dieketzer]

i reckon i will be updating post #2 for many years to come.

 

[Daniel Thomann]

how about this for 1.2 ?

Oooh I'd love it if it comes... more and more addons provide navtabs and if you have a style with big navtabs, you'll reach the end of possibilities after you install 2-3 Addons...

 

[RobParker]

Yep exactly the problem that needs addressing :-(

 

[DaKat]

how about this for 1.2 ?

+1

 

[rowedf]

I hope this gets added as well.

 

[Andrew]

+1 here

 

[electrogypsy]

this is much needed, wordpress has an excellent menu manager, id love to see something similar in xf.

 

[Thiel]

+10000000000 here

 

[Ablac]

Maybe for 1.1.3?

 

[Onimua]

Maybe for 1.1.3?

No, it would be in a 1.X release. As the release announcements usually state:

More Stable

This release of XenForo 1.1.2 follows our principle that third-point (x.x.X) releases should always be more stable than the preceding version, so for the most part you will not find new features in 1.1.2. Major new features will be reserved for second point versions (x.X.x).

 

[Sterling]

Rather than creating a duplicate thread, I'm bumping this one. This is something vBulletin lacked forever that XF should definitely have. It would be so useful to have especially since XF has real tabs where vB always used to just have single links (prior to 4.0).

This is still something vBulletin lacks. Stock VB doesn't allow you to modify nav tabs. The 4-5 nav tab mods available only allow you to add nav tabs and their dropdown children. You can't go beyond that, so designing a goal-oriented menu is not possible unless you want to manually code one yourself (which I had to do).

 

[Taxez]

i agree. its 2010 2011 2012 already.
we need a menu/nav editor in the acp.

wow... should have read this before I purchased xenForo. Absolutely unjustifiable weak point to the CMS no matter what anyone sais.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Kier says it is not included because Xenforo is a forum, not a CMS.
You can use Jake's Nodes as Tabs addon for some of this

 

[mmoore5553]

I have to say Jakes Nodes as Tabs is cracking . It does everything I need to add links. Plus his support is bar none. I never seen someone reply so quick to help something. I can only think of four more in this community.

 

[TimeWizardCosmo]

I have to say Jakes Nodes as Tabs is cracking . It does everything I need to add links. Plus his support is bar none. I never seen someone reply so quick to help something. I can only think of four more in this community.

This sounds great, link?

 

[yavuz]

This sounds great, link?

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/nodes-as-tabs.9/

 

[electrogypsy]

Oooh I'd love it if it comes... more and more addons provide navtabs and if you have a style with big navtabs, you'll reach the end of possibilities after you install 2-3 Addons...

that's my problem exactly. after a few addons, my navbar causes my page design to break. i just think it would be neat to have a a customizable navigation bar like wordpress has... that would be kinda revolutionary for a bulletin board software in my book

 

[mmoore5553]

I had the same problem but then i moved the navigation to the top for more room. Of course that is my test board. Live one has several links .

 

[DRE]

Probably the best navigation I ve seen so far:

http://www.metrolyrics.com/

That's pretty impressive. There's a poster on here named gigbig or something like that, that did something just as cool with his search box. http://www.animefans.tv/manga/

 

[DRE]

For my menu bar I let all members view the moderator bar (without the moderator links of course). I basically used Floren's XenFans UserBar template mod. The Moderator links only show when there is a reported or moderator item alert. AdminCP only shows if you have the rights. I put extra links to the moderator bar to make it easier for members to navigate. For the main navigation menu links, I combined modifications with others so that they share some of the same routes.

For example, the games section shares the same route as xfarcade, xbox live leaderboards and ebookie. The Social groups section shares the same routes as jaxel's events mod. The blogs section shares the same route as jaxel's wiki mod and the help section as well. The hardest part of menu navigation links is figuring out how to organize them and 7 months later after installing xenforo, I'm finally satisfied about how I set mine up.