Navigation widget for dashboards and custom links with live status
navigatorMAX is a Zabbix widget that builds navigable tiles from dashboards, host groups and custom URLs matched by name patterns, rendering them as a collapsible tree or a grid of icon and text buttons. Configuration covers source selection with Include/Exclude patterns (wildcards and, in PRO, regular expressions), layout choice (list or button grid), tile appearance (labels, icons, colours, spacing) and optional counts and presets; tiles can be coloured from live trigger severity or set per tile. The widget respects Zabbix user permissions, evaluates live item expressions for tile descriptions, and is intended for operators and administrators who need a single navigation dashboard and fast drill-downs from alerts and hosts.
Install via your OS package manager. Using the initMAX repository (apt / dnf) is the recommended way - you get GPG-signed updates automatically.
PRO repositories are protected with HTTP basic auth. You need one personal repo token, then you point your package manager at the authenticated URL. A single token unlocks every product your account is entitled to - you do not need a token per widget.
One token unlocks every PRO product on your account. If you cancel one product, the same token keeps working for the rest. Rotate or revoke tokens any time from the Portal.
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Preserve historical migration-fixture chunk sizes when Zabbix 8.0 expands the current schema field capacity.
Pin the native executor to its approved Docker CLI image digest to avoid repeated mutable-tag lookups in cached matrix runs.
Replay duplicate blur notifications during pending previews, including native 6.0 session-query parameters, and preserve rejection of actual edits, cancellation and failed destinations.
Verify saved severity values across native checkbox-list formats and replay original configuration with version-correct storage chunks.
Fix
Reject invalid numeric edits made during a pending tile preview, even when their normalized value equals Auto or a clamped font size.
Keep one-click tile Apply working when native controls repeat unchanged values on blur while the preview is loading.
Keep the saved-preset remove action visible and clickable on frontends without the native Zabbix icon font.
Extend native dropdown option highlighting across the whole menu and centre tile problem-count checkboxes with their labels and help icons.
Keep help text readable and inside narrow windows on older Zabbix frontends; centre the question mark and dismiss pinned hints when their form scrolls or resizes.
Preserve contrasting text and stable borders on multi-page tiles when legacy link styles apply, including hover and keyboard focus.
Preserve the original 0.14.6 Or calculation and 100-tile limit when those default fields were omitted from saved widgets, including the first render after upgrade; retain explicit settings and the 1000-tile maximum.
Retain inactive paid URL rules and saved tile overrides when editing in FREE, including their order, so upgrading to PRO restores them without rebuilding the configuration.
Show an explicit unavailable host state when problem data exceeds the bounded lookup or the API fails; keep the warning visible when counts are hidden.
Mark Add custom tile with the PRO padlock and centre locked controls in the FREE form.
Keep every dashboard page actionable in the page menu, including the first page.
Validate field values before applying, explain pending selection changes with an orange warning, and show empty-result and tile-limit messages.
Align empty and filled selectors, compact tile controls and preserve spacing around the primary tile-loading action.
Load original-resolution icons in the tile editor instead of enlarging 24 px thumbnails, keeping high-resolution icons sharp on Retina displays.
Centre tile icons and labels consistently with or without problem counts, reserving space for the footer and fitting content on small tiles.
Resolve modern host dashboards with host permissions and filter tiles, colours and problem counts by the current user's access.
Keep neutral button labels readable on hover and keyboard focus, and theme the page picker in dark mode.
Preserve empty automatic font sizes while typing; step per-tile overrides from the inherited size.
Fall back to black text when coloured tiles cannot reach 4.5:1 contrast with navy or white.
Align target filters, tile editor labels, control heights and colour previews in light and dark themes; stack narrow forms without overlapping controls.
Preserve readable dark lettering on the yellow PRO badge in dark mode.
Fit widget and tile configuration dialogs to narrow viewports without horizontal overflow.
Fill the complete widget background and choose readable text colours using relative luminance.
Make empty tile icons visible and directly editable, and clarify when tile refresh preserves customizations.
Name the legacy 6.0/6.2 files after the product, so the classes autoload.
Carry one product identity, geometry and version across the v1 and v2 trees.
Let the global font size be set to the inherited size instead of losing it.
Show the edition badge and padlock the PRO controls in the configuration dialog.
Give the PRO edition badge the styling the FREE one already had.
Keep the target pickers working when a Zabbix API call fails.
Stop the button tiles sitting high in the widget.
Preserve saved boolean target calculations while new selections use Include/Exclude.
Keep the preset name box from widening the configuration dialog.
Keep targets and per-tile setup of a saved widget on Zabbix 6.4.
Documentation
Regenerate the native catalogue gallery from self-contained dashboard, host-group and problem fixtures.
Document the source-loading workflow, group hierarchy matching, reload preservation, presets and updated FREE/PRO boundaries.
Customer README describing navigatorMAX and its FREE and PRO editions.
Hand-off note recording what is done, what is not, and why.
Feature
Extend the supported frontend matrix to Zabbix 8.0, tested on 8.0.0rc2, including its dark themes.
Show loaded tile count, page count and first-page overflow beside grid capacity; show spare positions when all tiles fit on one page.
Resolve Zabbix expression macros in tile descriptions in both editions, including live editor previews, while preserving the saved expressions and the viewer's item permissions.
Include one built-in Host dashboards and problems starter in both editions, with automatic tile loading; keep additional presets and shared preset management in PRO.
Create a tile for each matching host group, optionally including subgroups; group tiles open Problems and do not require dashboards.
Mix exact names and wildcard patterns with explicit regex: expressions; show the interpreted matching type beside each field.
Add independent custom tiles, choose same-window or new-tab URL opening, and retain custom destinations and appearance when reloading the selection.
Select multiple host groups, hosts and triggers for a tile's problem filter, using picked names or patterns.
Configure icon size, tile spacing and corner radius, including preset persistence.
Explain presets, icon sources, inherited values and colour filters with illustrated help and a live tile preview.
Lay the navigatorMAX widget source into the v3 etalon layout.
Carve the FREE baseline from the PRO capabilities in features.yaml.
Clickthrough scenarios for the FREE baseline and each PRO capability.
Second demo preset for the list view.
End-to-end tests for tile icons: the default, switched off, and the per-tile override.
Support Zabbix 6.4 with its own configuration layout; Advanced starts collapsed as on 7.x.
Support Zabbix 6.0 and 6.2 through a manifest-v1 adapter over the shared code.
Improvement
Include basic host dashboards and automatic destination-host problem colours/counts in FREE; keep group/tag/template selection and per-tile problem filters in PRO.
Select sources with Include/Exclude, load their tiles in one action, then configure appearance and arrange the tiles.
Load and create tiles automatically after confirming a preset; keep source and display presets separate from individual tile overrides.
Place dashboard page selection below the dashboard name and show page counts for multi-page dashboard choices.
Show equal-sized light/dark colour examples with theme icons, and explain global icon and severity-colour administration.
Organize configuration into targets, appearance, individual tiles and problem display using native Zabbix controls.
Drop the Skeleton's demo AI, chat, MCP and layout example from the tree.
Keep shared preset storage, management controls and write actions out of the FREE build.
Let presets carry the widget background and default tile colour; the demos use initMAX colours.
Security
Assert the widget's security invariants from a test instead of by review.
Refactoring
Move the widget's logic out of the class only the 7.x framework can load.
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