Tutorial - Adding Navigation in Zed

This tutorial describes how to make your new controller action accessible in the navigation bar.

There are two locations where you can define the navigation config :

• In the global config/Zed/navigation.xml config file
• Within your module in src/Pyz/Zed/{moduleName}/Communication/navigation.xml (replace {moduleName} with the actual module name)

1. Add Navigation Using the Global Navigation Config

Add the following XML block within the config tag scope of config/Zed/navigation.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
[...]
    <hello-world>
        <label>Hello World</label>
        <title>Hello World</title>
        <bundle>hello-world</bundle>
        <pages>
            <greeter>
                <label>Greeter</label>
                <title>Greeter</title>
                <bundle>hello-world</bundle>
                <controller>index</controller>
                <action>index</action>
                <visible>1</visible>
            </greeter>
        </pages>
    </hello-world>
[...]
</config>

then run the following from the command line :

vendor/bin/console application:build-navigation-cache

and you will have your new menu point visible in the navigation.

2. Add Navigation Using the Module Navigation Config

To add your controller action in the navigation bar we need to define the the new menu point in the navigation config of our module.

touch src/Pyz/Zed/HelloWorld/Communication/navigation.xml

Insert the following xml block in the created file :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
    <hello-world>
        <label>Hello World</label>
        <title>Hello World</title>
        <bundle>hello-world</bundle>
        <pages>
            <greeter>
                <label>Greeter</label>
                <title>Greeter</title>
                <bundle>hello-world</bundle>
                <controller>index</controller>
                <action>index</action>
                <visible>1</visible>
            </greeter>
        </pages>
    </hello-world>
</config>

and run the following command :

vendor/bin/console application:build-navigation-cache

Now reload your Zed page and you will find your “Greeter” menu point under the main point “Hello World”.

Tips

Hiding Root Navigation Elements

Since all navigation XML files will be merged, you cannot just omit a root element to hide a root element. Instead, use visible keyword to hide it.

In your config/Zed/navigation.xml config file:

...
<sales><visible>0</visible></sales>
...

 

Last review date: Dec. 12th, 2017