Bug: This item cannot be moved here.

If you select a menu item and try to place it under and item which cannot have a sub-menu, there is a message stating that 'this item cannot be moved here'. If you then drag and drop to place the menu item else where, you get the same message regardless of whether you can place it there or not.

Submenu's

I don't know if this was done by design or not, but not being able to place submenu(s) under certain items (menus that are applications etc) as is a big annoyance when trying to build your own menu.

Can you please allow submenus under any item, up until your sub-menu limit (which looks to be three?), please?

Please post this in the bug section, and we can get it looked into

Hello,

Navigation submenus in v5 are toggled on click/tap. It's therefore not possible for normal navigation links (such as application links) to be submenu toggles, because clicking them would open the dropdown menu instead of opening the link.

1 hour ago, Ehren said:

Hello,

Navigation submenus in v5 are toggled on click/tap. It's therefore not possible for normal navigation links (such as application links) to be submenu toggles, because clicking them would open the dropdown menu instead of opening the link.

That's my point.

The previous menu version was 'on hover' and then click. So, if I wanted Forums as my main menu item, I could still have submenu items under that.

In fact, most menu system I have used or written, will use Hover to open the main menu's, or at least give a choice for both types. Hover or Click.

Version 5 has had a huge focus on accessibility. A menu which relies on clicks rather than hover is typically a far more accessible approach.

Inspiration was taken from the “File, Edit, etc” menus in both macOS and Windows, where a click is used to open the menu. You could change this to a hover menu by using custom JS, however it wouldn’t allow you to reliably add a link to the submenu header, since those are button elements. 

I'd love to see hover to reveal a large drop down instead of clicking to show the tiny drop downs as current.
Having the ability to have even a full width drop down and customing the sub menu contents with images would be very sexy.

I'm a huge fan of the public invision navigation styling.... would love to have similar for our communities future IC5 site 🙂

 

I guess not? Devs not looking to release how they made it?

If so, is there a third party dev who could assit with a similar solution?

We wouldnt generally release the code to our own customisations, no. Thats not to say we never will, but not generally

41 minutes ago, Marc said:

We wouldnt generally release the code to our own customisations, no. Thats not to say we never will, but not generally

How would I go about building a similar navigation?

Im not one of the developers myself. You would need a designer to assist you with creating something like that really