[Now Live] Dashboard shortcuts!

[Nick Barr]

A few weeks ago, Brian Floe had a great feature request —  to add a drop-down menu to the network bar, giving NCs direct access to all their manage pages.

It's simple, easy to do, and makes site management easier — we love it, and we're going to roll it out soon. In the meantime, we had one product question we wanted to ask. Would you rather see all Dashboard items in one list, or have a sub-nav? See the mockups for what I mean.

My vote is for Option A, because it's probably worth seeing everything at once, even if it does make the list pretty long. Also, we think there are ways we can optimize this organization going forward, so we're not super-committed to keeping the current structure. Might not make sense to set up a sub-nav if we're going to change it later.

With that in mind let us know what you feel — this is a feature for NCs by NCs :)

 

Option A:

 

Option B:

[Brian Floe]

I used that too :)

 

Now I just wish we were able to remove that last menu tab, or is it just me that don't know how? Can you guys remove the admin menu tab?

[Martin de Goede]

Why would you want that ? It's only visible for you and your admins and you can place admin subtabs underneath. At our website we added subtabs for pages and notes .

[Brian Floe]

I used to use it for that too, but I think Ning should let NCs decide if they want that menu or not. 

I'm using the drop down dashboard menu now instead.

[Petter Zugaib]

I prefer option A. Because it gives  you the chance to see all at once. You can work with a holistic approach instead of a fragmented one.

Thanks!

[Katie McKay]

Ok, I missed this post and just recently discovered the link at the top of my network....  LOVE IT!!!!!!!   Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

[Hélèna Anderson]

great !

I prefere option 1

[Diana Broomfield]

I like both but option B has a cleaner look so I my vote is for Option B.

[Katie McKay]

You all can stop voting, lol.  Its been up and running and is fantastic!  Such a time saver.

[limadenoche]

Option B, is good :)

[Marcs Marcello]

A