@fzaninotto i am trying to remap the content of menu.js to a custom template.

1. i changed the whole layout.html

    admin.layout(require('./layout.html'));
    admin.header(require('./header.html'));
    admin.menu(require('./menu')(nga, admin));
    admin.dashboard(require('./dashboard/config')(nga, admin));

1. somewhere in layount.html, i am trying to

   <span compile="::appController.menu"></span>

i only get an array, becauze the template, is missing from the equation.

i get no luck even if put hte content of menuBar.html inside layout.html

my question is: can this admin.menu() accep both data, and a custom template ?

thank you

appController.menu is a Menu object. Don't try to output it in a template, it doesn't make any sense. It contains both menus (data) and the template.

Why don't you use the <ma-menu-bar> directive?

well, it's more a markup/css issue ..

having ul.nav nested in two other divs, makes things a bit hard on css side.

i wanted to achieve this kind of markup for the aside bar

but having both header and <ma-menu-bar> inside <nav makes it tricky

Then do the markup and the directives you want. But don't try to output a JS object to HTML, it doesn't make sense.

does <ma-menu-bar> can be extended?
i think the easiest way to achive this, is to append a custom mark-up to <ma-menu-bar> directive

You can customize the template of every directive in ng-admin (and in Angular.js in general).

https://github.com/marmelab/ng-admin/blob/master/doc/Theming.md#customizing-directives-templates