[K7 Navigation] Group applications in side nav

[ryankeairns]

Describe the feature:
As a follow up to the new K7 side nav #28940 , we would like to add the ability to group certain applications. The EUI Nav Drawer component can handle this from a design/frontend perspective, but there is no mechanism/flag/data point upon which to group the items.

Describe a specific use case for the feature:
In order to minimize scrolling in the side nav as more apps get added, we would like to group common apps. For example, we have discussed grouping 'Admin' related applications as you see below:

Admin example

cc:/ @alexfrancoeur @AlonaNadler @snide

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-platform

[AlonaNadler]

Adding @yaronp68 as well

[alexfrancoeur]

@yaronp68 any objection to having management / monitoring a subdirectory under "Admin" or something along those lines? Would be interested in your thoughts here.

[AlonaNadler]

In general, I think it makes sense to group admin tools together, I have a concern that users will not find their reports, currently management page is not only for admins.

[alexfrancoeur]

++ I agree, management is not obvious for things like reports. Hopefully this will be improved in the future but for now, we are stuck with that experience. We could always work on wording. "Management & Monitoring"? That might be too long. @gchaps any thoughts around a title for a subsection for all management and monitoring apps?

[gchaps]

Admin or Administer feels too broad to me, as did other wording I tried. I like the more specific "Monitor & Manage". In the broader scheme of things, reporting and alerting are really part of monitoring from the user perspective. I checked a couple other products and I see "Monitor & Manage" and "Monitor & Configure" . Whatever order you use, "Monitor & Manage" or "Manage & Monitor", make sure you use the same order in the flyout.

[alexfrancoeur]

@ryankeairns is this something we're still shooting for in 7.0?

[ryankeairns]

@alexfrancoeur This one is going to need an engineer to sort out how apps are assigned to a group. In other words, there is no grouping 'flag' that exists today.

Aside from that, is the Product team pretty set on grouping those 3 under a Manage & Monitor category?

[alexfrancoeur]

An alternative approach the came up in discussions was a persisted "settings" or "admin" icon that lives in to top nav. That would allow us to push at least management out of the side nav. With things like the help icon and alerts/notifications in the future, I'm not sure how much more crowded that would make the top nav.

[myasonik]

Closing in favor of #53313