Tab-navigation in sidebar region

Client
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Dear all,

I have a requirement to model a sidebar menu and that each click on a menu item should obviously lead to a different scene/view/component in the content region and I need an assessment or best practices regarding such a tab-navigation in sidebar regions.

Here is my knowledge so far:

  • sidebar regions can easily be modeled in the appmodel
  • I can use cases to model tabs
  • cases don’t behave like child menu/activites, don’t have their own scenes and don’t have their own activity descriptors

Therefore I cannot model such a scenario, because to render a form, an overview or a static page, I would need to describe a specific activity descriptor for each - as I do with sub-menus and child menu/activites.

So my questions are:

  1. Is there a “modelling-way” that I’m overlooking?
  2. Why are there no child menu/activites for sidebars?
  3. What is the suggested implementation? How did other projects solve this quite common requirement?

Thank you very much for your help!

Cheers,
Bianca

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No further insights here?

So I guess everyone needing a sidebar menu implements it in their own way? Anyone else willing to share a hint? Is the FlyoutMenu widget, mentioned by Alicia the way to go?

Thank you!

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Hey @bianca-firm-knoll,
I’m sorry, but as already assumed, there is no modeling way to achieve the described setting. The proposed way to customize the flyout menu would also be our suggestion here (the FMM preview is also using this approach). The custom implementation has to be done by every project itself. But discourse is definitely the right place to share these insights :slight_smile: so maybe @alicia-secure-haze could share some details of how FöFi did the implementation?

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Hi @bianca-firm-knoll,

are your questions answered or do you need further support here?
If it is answered, please, use the checkbox to mark the solution to your problem so that other users also know what helped in your case.

Denise from the Discourse team

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Hi @denise-narrow-token
Hi @alicia-secure-haze

unfortunately this doesn’t solve our requirements, but some people from our development team are in contact with the A12 team and I hope they will find a solution that fits our rather specific needs. As we don not have a single stand-alone BAP where we can put custom code, but we have a generic base BAP used and configured by several customer projects. In other words: we need to implement a generic sidebar solution that can then be used and configured in n projects…

Therefore I cannot mark any answer as my solution, but I thank you nonetheless for your input! It helped to get discussions going :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Bianca