Admin menu UX improvements: 'you are here' highlighting

[denny]

When viewing a page in the admin area:

• Move the relevant section to the top of the page (use anchors?)
  • Make this feature on/off configurable (it might be more annoying than helpful for some people, especially once menu open/fold state is persistent)
• If there is not a specific menu item to highlight for that page, highlight the relevant section heading in the menu instead
  • Or, always highlight section heading, as well as highlighting menu item if it exists?

[denny]

If you are a less experienced developer who is looking at this issue and thinking you'd like to try to take it on but you're not entirely confident, I would be happy to help you - whether that's help getting set up, more explanation of what needs doing, pairing on the code task itself, or anything else I can do to help.

In my day job I'm a lead developer who often mentors less experienced developers, and I'd love to use some of that experience to help people take their first steps into contributing to open source projects.

[denny]

Started adding some code to support this, but haven't got very far..

https://github.com/denny/ShinyCMS-ruby/blob/main/app/views/admin/menu/_menu_section_start.html.erb#L3
https://github.com/denny/ShinyCMS-ruby/blob/main/app/views/admin/menu/_menu_item.html.erb#L5
https://github.com/denny/ShinyCMS-ruby/blob/main/app/helpers/admin_area_helper.rb#L74

[MrBowmanXD]

I would like to tackle this issue, and i have some knowledge in front end development, but i did not understand fully what's required, could you please explain a bit more please?

[denny]

Ooh, a person who speaks front-end, exciting. I am terrible at it, so your help would be very much appreciated.

I think it might be more useful to tackle the persistent menu state first, do you think you could look at that first? #644

[MrBowmanXD]

Well to be honest im at intern level (in my internship i mostly did landing pages). Would be glad to look at that issue 😊