The user interface provides 3 customizable menus: Main navigation, Custom menu, User menu. All of them can be edited with the menu editor.
The main navigation is displayed on all content pages in the wiki and does not change in individual namespaces.
Up to v.4.2, only the standard MediaWiki sidebar is available. The main navigation is the main (left) sidebar in the desktop view of the wiki. The contents of this navigation bar apply to the entire wiki and cannot be created for specific namespaces.
Links can be added to this navigation using the menu editor. To keep the main navigation from becoming too extensive, it's a good idea to add links to the most important topics and to related portal pages.
By default, some links are provided as entry points to the wiki. Wiki administrators can deactivate these links in the configuration manager if needed. In addition, you can also add new links below the entrypoints (admin permissions required). Please note that no hierarchical links can be created. Therefore, it makes sense to mainly set up links to the most important topics and to portal pages that contain additional links or page lists.
Starting at BlueSpice 4.3, four different menu settings are available. Administrators can select a menu type in the Config manager.
All four types optionally show a list of pre-defined Entry points.
MediaWiki sidebar
This is the standard view of the sidebar. It displays custom menu items with no hierarchical structure.
Namespace main page list
This view automatically displays the Main Page of each content namespace.
- No combination with other menu elements is possible.
Subpage tree (context-sensitive)
This view automatically shows the subpages of a page if that page has subpages. Multi-level subpages are supported.
- No combination with other menu elements is possible.
Enhanced MediaWiki sidebar
This view shows a fully customizable multi-hierarchical menu. It can consist of the following elements:
In BlueSpice 4, an additional custom menu is integrated as a mega menu.
If the menu doesn't exist yet, you first have to create the following page: MediaWiki:CustomMenu/Header
If the menu exists, the link-icon is displayed. You can click on the Edit menu link to edit the links in this menu.
This menu can be created and edited by users with admin rights.
Users can customize their personal navigation menu. The mega menu can be opened by clicking on the profile picture in the top toolbar.
The user menu consists of two sections: Customizable links and Personal tools. Only the customizable links can be edited.
By default, the menu shows the following information:
- Pages visited (widget PAGESVISITED)
- My edits (widget YOUREDITS)
These widgets can be removed individually when a user customizes the sidebar.
