Managing the Application Menu¶

Creating Menu Items¶

You can create new navigation under the items key. Each item must be identified by a unique name which acts as a key in the menu configuration:

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# src/Acme/DemoBundle/Resources/config/oro/navigation.yml
menu_config:
    items:
        blog:
            label: acme_demo.menu.blog
            uri: '#'
        blog_categories:
            label: acme_demo.menu.blog_categories
            route: acme_demo.blog_categories
        blog_index:
            label: acme_demo.menu.blog_overview
            route: acme_demo.blog_index

The example above defines three menu items:

• The blog item consists of a label and the URI #. This means that the item will not react on mouse clicks, but can be used as a placeholder for nested menus.
• Both the blog_categories and the blog_index items reference an existing route. Thus, when the user later clicks one of these items, they will get to a page that is rendered by the controller that is responsible for the configured route.

As you can see, the menu item labels will be translated by default. Hence you can use arbitrary labels here, as long as they can be translated by configured translator service. You can change the translation domain using the translateDomain option (by default, the translator’s default domain will be used).

Organize the Navigation Trees¶

The next step is to compose a tree of the menu items that you created before. These trees are build under the tree key:

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# src/Acme/DemoBundle/Resources/config/oro/navigation.yml
menu_config:
    tree:
        application_menu:
            children:
                system_tab:
                    children:
                        blog:
                            children:
                                blog_categories: ~
                                blog_index: ~

First, you need to decide to which tree the items should be added. The Oro applications come with three pre-defined menus to which you can add new items:

application_menu

The horizontal main menu on top of the user interface.

usermenu

The menu that pops up when the user clicks on their username in the top right corner of the screen.

shortcuts

The shortcut bar above the main application menu.

In the example above, you can also see that you can add menu items to already existing subtrees. With the given configuration, the blog menu will appear under the existing System tab of the application menu.

If you wanted to create a dedicated blog tab instead, you would just have to configure your items as child items of the application_menu entry like this:

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# src/Acme/DemoBundle/Resources/config/oro/navigation.yml
menu_config:
    tree:
        application_menu:
            children:
                blog:
                    children:
                        blog_categories: ~
                        blog_index: ~