V6 multilevel menu items

[pxpm]

Discussed in Laravel-Backpack/community-forum#614

^{Originally posted by froid24 August 4, 2023}
Hi guys,

I saw a lot of talk about having multiple levels for the menu in previous versions (where a submenu option can have a submenu of its own). Where can I find an example of how it is done in V6 (Tabler)?

Also, at some point menu options not having any suboptions were automatically hidden. is this not the case anymore? Because that was really nice.

Thank you!

[pxpm]

@karandatwani92 investigated and Tabler support multi-level menu, unfortunately our menu components don't. Laravel-Backpack/community-forum#614 (comment)

[tabacitu]

I would love to have this too ❤️ Not sure how we can implement it though. And if we do... is it a Tabler feature only or should we add it to ALL themes? Food for thought.

[karandatwani92]

@tabacitu @pxpm I investigated more. This can't be done in CRUD repo(with a common code).
if I'm right, I saw all themes already have their menu views & classes individually to render the menu.
So this would also be done per theme level.

Also, BS4 & BS5 don't support a 3-level menu natively but custom CSS helps implement this.

• I saw the Tabler demo has it.
• I saw the core UI 4.3 demo have it.
• Core Ui 2/Bootstrap 4 can have it with custom code too.

@tabacitu how we should proceed? what should be the priority?

One question I have: Where are we converting the <x-backpack::menu-item> tag to the menu?

[tabacitu]

Thanks for the investigation @karandatwani92 . So then:

• this is NOT a bug fix, this is a feature (this wasn't possible before either)
• this is NOT a Small (1 day) task, it's most likely become Medium (1 week) or even 2x M
• this is still a SHOULD, I agree; maybe even borderline MUST;

This is a cool feature we could launch this month if @pxpm has the time. Otherwise we can do it next month too. We're not in a rush since Antonio is already working on a feature this month, the activity-log package.

@pxpm do you agree with the above?

[tabacitu]

Happy to say this is DONE thanks to Pedro. You only need to define nested="true" on you sub-dropdowns in 6.2+ 😉

https://backpackforlaravel.com/docs/6.x/base-components#menu-dropdown-menu-dropdown-item