Administrate: Feature Request: Add Top Nav

[BenMorganIO]

While I was cruising about, I noticed that I wanted to return to the app, but that link wasn't in the admin. Also, sometimes when you're running a job, you get a dashboard to look at jobs. There's no link anywhere to find them. You're also logged in (most of the time) and there's no conventional logout button.

What I'm asking:

Basically add a nav to the top right near the search to logout if user_signed_in? is true and defined?. And maybe a link to main_app.root_url as well.

An API to add new links (such as giving users the ability to link to a CMS admin and/or a jobs dashboard possible) would be great. I know Solidus/Spree has this.

[gracewashere]

@BenMorganIO A top nav is something that will probably vary a lot between different implementations of Administrate. I'm not sure how to add a top nav that will be generally useful.

On master, we just added #269. This gives you the command rails generate administrate:views:layout. It'll go out in version 0.1.3, and until then you can get it by using:

gem "administrate", github: "thoughtbot/administrate"

If you (and others) want to share your top navbar implementation here, that would be a good first step to see if we can add a generally-useful API for it.

Cheers!

[zamith]

I added a top navbar on my app by generating the layout and adding it to that layout. Here's the code in Slim, but it should be easily translated to ERb. I also added another manifest with some style coming from the main app.

doctype html
html lang='en'
head
  meta charset="utf-8"
  meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP"
  meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1"
  title
    = content_for(:title)
    | |
    = Rails.application.class.parent_name.titlecase
  = stylesheet_link_tag "//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300,400,900", media: "all"
  = stylesheet_link_tag "administrate/application", media: "all"
  = stylesheet_link_tag "admin", media: "all"
  = csrf_meta_tags

body.administrate
  = render "application/navbar"  # The top nav
  main.main
    .sidebar
      = render "sidebar"

    .container
      = content_for(:search)
      .content
        = render "flashes"
        = yield

  = render "javascript"

Hope it helps.

[gracewashere]

Great, thanks! I'll leave this open to gauge interest - if anyone else wants to see this, let us know here.

[minimul]

I have 2 projects using administrate and the first thing you/user/client is thinking after doing what they need to do in administrate is "How do I get back to the main app". So basically overriding the view is the first thing I am going to do everytime.

Solution? Something like what @BenMorganIO said.

[BenMorganIO]

@minimul yep... The top nav of Spree 2 and 3 were views that I always edited in the beginning to add jobs and CMS admin links.

[dgleba]

I would like to see a top nav as well.

[flavienhello]

For people like me that didn't know where to you the layouts, it needs to be inside:

app/views/layouts/administrate/application.html.erb

Enjoy

[jasonswett]

I can see how it could make sense not to include a top nav bar by default. I don't really see how it could make sense not to include a sign-out link by default.

[brownell]

or a "home" link back to the app

[colinrubbert]

Seems like such a basic thing but yet it's not there. I'm not going to hold my breath considering this was opened in 2015 and there hasn't been any actual updates on this front.

I could never introduce this to my end-users without me spending the time to add custom navbar or even a sign out or home link.

Please add this, thank you!

[KraevRoot]

we still need it

[AgonIdrizi]

This would be great feature, everyone needs to get back to app!

[gesaleh]

is this going to be added ?

[ruanltbg]

is this going to be added ?

[nickcharlton]

I've opened #1376 as an attempt at solving half of this issue.

Attempting to solve sign out is a different problem. Administrate does not make any assumptions about how you authenticate your application (see: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/blob/7ed5b0792b7dc0b622de83256a22fcaa1d7db54b/lib/generators/administrate/install/templates/application_controller.rb.erb#L11:L13), so there's nothing we can assume about signing out. Like the application_controller, the best we could do is document the best way of solving it.

[nickcharlton]

I'm going to close this as #1376, which I hope to merge soon provides a partial solution to this.