yorkshire-pudding / book_menus

Allows a user to manage book navigation via the normal Backdrop admin menu interface.

Book Menus

Book Menus allows you to set books as normal Backdrop CMS menus. This means they will be listed in admin/structure/menu, and have all of the additional functionality that comes along with it.

This will allow you to use menu manipulation modules. For example, the initial development was due to wanting a more flexible book menu structure with titles or sections that are not necessarily links. This can be done using Book Menus along with Special Menu Items.

Requirements

This module requires that the following modules are also enabled:

• Book - part of Core, disabled by default.
• Menu - part of Core, enabled by default.

Installation

• Install this module using the official Backdrop CMS instructions at https://docs.backdropcms.org/documentation/extend-with-modules.

• To manage the menu, the user must have the administer menus permission in addition to the book permissions.

Configuration

• Create some books.
• Navigate to admin/content/book/settings and chose the Book Menus.
• On the book list page, the edit operation will redirect to the normal menu.
• You can also see the menu at admin/structure/menu.
• Modify the menu as required.

Blocks

This menu provides a block, Book Menu Navigation, that is similar in functionality to core book.module with the show block only on book pages setting.

However, the main difference it that it will always show the full tree. This was necessary as non-book menu links and #below items weren't getting rendered as core book.module passes the book menu item to menu_tree_output.

You can still use the core book.module Book Navigation block, but on Book Menus it will likely be the Book Menus Navigation block you're looking for.

Notes

• As this module intercepts the admin/content/book/* page, other book manipulation module may not work with it.

Issues

Bugs and Feature Requests should be reported in the Issue Queue: https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/book_menus/issues.

Current Maintainers

• Martin Price - System Horizons Ltd

Credits

• Ported to Backdrop CMS by Martin Price - System Horizons Ltd
• Created for Drupal by Sam K Hall

License

This project is GPL v2 software. See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory for complete text.