Hello! Is it possible to reorder and group items in the backend menu? All i've found is this link https://octobercms.com/docs/plugin/extending#extending-backend-menu , but there are only methods to rename/delete items, not reorder/group items.

Thank you!

As far as I know, you cannot reorder/group menu items.

I've found a solution, it is not very elegant, but if client insists... In our Plugin.php we can re-activate existing menu items:

public function boot()
{
    \Event::listen('backend.menu.extendItems', function ($manager) {
        $manager->addMainMenuItems('October.Backend', [
            'dashboard' => [
                'order' => '1'
            ]
        ]);
        $manager->addMainMenuItems('October.Cms', [
            'cms' => [
                'order' => '2'
            ]
        ]);
        $manager->addMainMenuItems('October.Backend', [
            'media' => [
                'order' => '3'
            ]
        ]);
       $manager->addMainMenuItems('RainLab.Builder', [
            'builder' => [
                'order' => '4'
            ]
        ]);
    });
}

And we can do this for any plugin we create.

Last updated 4 years ago

neat! didn't know you could just add them back like this with an order key.

I found what I think is a cleaner/simpler way to order menu items:

Event::listen('backend.menu.extendItems', function ($manager) {
   $items = $manager->listMainMenuItems();
   $data = [
       'October.Backend.Dashboard' => 1,
       'October.Cms.cms' => 2,
       'October.Backend.Media' => 3,
       'RainLab.Builder.Builder' => 4,
   ];
   foreach ( as $name => $order) {
       if ($item = array_get($items, strtoupper($name), false)) {
           $item->order = $order;
       }
   }
});

Nice! For ordering your solution is really the best. For ordering, renaming, etc, my ugly solution works too)