Menu Items overview - Filter on Component - v2

[pe7er]

Pull Request to add a Component filter to the "Menus: Items" overview.

It's PR #24665 re-done for the current Joomla 4.2-dev.

Summary of Changes

This PR adds a Component filter to the menu items overview so that you can filter on specific Components.

Before PR

Testing Instructions

• Install the PR.
• Open the Menus: All Menu Items page (Menus > All Menu Items)
• Create a menu item of type Contact - Single Contact
• Click on "Search Tools",
• Select a component (e.g. Contacts)

Expected result

The list of menu items should be filtered to only show menu items to views of that selected Component.

After PR

A new Filter field should be available:

The new filter fields enables you to filter on Menu Items of type = Articles (com_content)

The new filter fields enables you to filter on Menu Items of type = Contacts (com_contact)

[ChristineWk]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on aaf4ce3

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[jwaisner]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on aaf4ce3

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[jwaisner]

RTC

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[alikon]

@pe7er look at https://github.com/pe7er/joomla-cms/pull/1it use the prepared statement for the new where clause

[wilsonge]

Wouldn't it be more obvious to filter by menu item type than component?

[sere-b]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on d951e96

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[richard67]

Back to pending after recent change for prepared statements. One more tester needed.

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[ChristineWk]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on d951e96

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[richard67]

Back to RTC after 2 good tests. But could you check @wilsonge 's comment "Wouldn't it be more obvious to filter by menu item type than component?"? Seems to be a valid question to me.

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[richard67]

@pe7er Could you check George's comment above? I think it is a valid question. When fitering by the type of menu item we may achieve nearly the same result, because the item types are connected to the component, and it might also be easier.

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[pe7er]

@richard67 @wilsonge I have changed my PR:

• added a new Field type MenuItemByComponent to filter by menu item type (instead of component)

Before the change the dropdown would be:

After the change the dropdown looks like:

Note: I've added a ->where($db->quoteName('menu.client_id') . ' = 0') to the query.
Otherwise it would also show menu items from the admin menu in the dropdown:

[richard67]

@pe7er Should the label then still be "- Select Component -"?

[pe7er]

@richard67 yes, I think so. Or do you have a suggestion for something better?

[obuisard]

I would like to add that when a component is uninstalled, the menu items created with that component become 'orphan' and are no longer 'filtrable'. I would assume this as 'normal' behavior.

@pjdevries would you mind recording your test in the issue tracker? Thank you.

[obuisard]

This PR requires updated documentation for the online help such as the one found at https://help.joomla.org/proxy?keyref=Help42:Menus:_Items

Thank you!

[jwaisner]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 40e3f99

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[jwaisner]

RTC

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[obuisard]

Great PR, thank you Peter @pe7er for this feature and for all to comment and help make this a good addition. Peter, do you need help with documentation?

[richard67]

@jwaisner @obuisard Could at least one of you redo your test because there have been some changes? Just to see if it still works, so we can keep RTC. Thanks in advance.

[obuisard]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 40e3f99

2nd testing successful

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[obuisard]

Hello Peter @pe7er, do you need help with documentation? Would love to sere this PR merged soon.

[carlitorweb]

Documentation added ✔️ (https://docs.joomla.org/Help4.x:Menus:_Items)

[obuisard]

Thank you Peter @pe7er for this PR!