Edit Content Menus Items bugs/enhancements

[tim-moody]

• Title and Description should be required fields

• only upper and lower case alpha, 0-9, hyphen, and underscore allowed in menu def name.

• Automatically add clone to home menu. Add 'CLONED:' to Title

• Change the prompt Content this Menu Item Shows with changes to Select Menu Item Type to read zim, moddir, etc. for major types

Future: add ability to search list of available menu defs. What to search on?

[georgejhunt]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:32 PM Tim Moody ***@***.***> wrote: Title and Description should be required fields Should a clone automatically add to home menu?

If it did that, I think a lot of my confusion would have disappeared. I wouldn't have had the task of finding the item I had just created without remembering exactly what title I had just created.

Add ability to search list of available menu defs. What to search on?

Any substring in title?

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[tim-moody]

Any substring in title?

would not have helped you I don't think. I wonder if filtering by menu item type would cut down on the list. User might be more in tune with the type they are trying to add. Could also filter on edit status maybe.

I regularly search in the browser for titles.

[georgejhunt]

Once I understood the blank title problem, the browser "find in page" found "videos" (it did a case insensitive search) in the title "Howto Videos for Internet In A Box" -- which I thought was pretty direct and useful.

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[tim-moody]

search proposal: search string in each of array of fields of interest

[holta]

Related:

PR #379 "Add menu item def validations"