Dynamic Menu Navigation

[Elderberg]

Hi all, I can't seem to find the solution, but not for lack of trying. 

I'm looking for a tutorial to accomplish a dynamic Menu Navigation based on user role. Similar to what's presented here at 4:23s into this Tutorial. 

I would prefer to implement entirely in caspio for this. It's an internal company work flow and deploying through weebly etc seems very counterintuitive. 

Bonus if there's a Tutorial to achieve this and highlight the current page (so that the user can easily reference what page they're on). 

[MayMusic]

The menu is not generated in Caspio but in HTML web page as a template. You can go over the ready-made application and request one: https://www.caspio.com/apps/

When they import it to your account they will also send you the HTML pages with templates. Then you can use that template for your own app. 

[ParkLoey]

Hi! Just wanted to add this reference since as mentioned above, the menu is not generated in Caspio.  This is very helpful especially when I have to use basic HTML or CSS to add something in my Caspio App. https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_navbar.asp

[PotatoMato]

Just to add, you may also check this video tutorial for reference:

 

[RuisiHansamu]

I suggest to view this as the preparation and basic knowledge about it: https://howto.caspio.com/datapages/best-practices-in-creating-caspio-applications/

[ParkLoey]

Maybe this forum post might give you an idea? This one also uses navigation menus through app parameter and javascript (for making the links conditional based on the authentication)

 

[PotatoMato]

Hi! Just to update, Caspio has an article about custom navigation menu based on user role: https://howto.caspio.com/tech-tips-and-articles/customizing-navigation-menu-based-on-user-roles/

 

-Potato

[DaveS]

This might sound crazy, but I've got zero javascript skills and pretty low on HTML.  And I'm starting to run into more conditions - beyond user role - where I need to customize the menu.  It also strikes me that - as the complexity of the application grows - the menus will become unwieldy.  I'm dreaming about a database-driven solution where we map menu headers and menu items to user types, store the HTML in the database, and then dynamically create the menus on the fly.  Is this crazy?  A performance nightmare?  

It seems like once this was built, adding a new user role would be as easy as just choosing the menu items they had access to.  Adding a new menu item would involve creating the HTML for that particular item, specifying where it fits in the menu hierarchy, and mapping it to the user roles that can see it.  

Anyone ever tried something like this?