Gear Menu Organization

As a site's list of Gears grow, site admins will want to sort Gears so that users can more easily find the Gear they are looking to run. Gears can be grouped together under headings, like so:

This organization is derived from information in the Gear's manifest, specifically from within the "suite" key. When a gear is uploaded to the site, the suite key value generates a sub-heading within the drop-down menu, where the Gear is then slotted. Duplicate suite keys do not result in redundant headings; if the heading exists the Gear is simply placed under that heading.

"custom": {
  "flywheel": {
    "suite": "SciTran"
    }
  }

If you're using the CLI to build and upload your Gears, you should consider adding a suite key prior to uploading the Gear. This can be particularly helpful if you are building and uploading Gears that share a label with existing Gears.

It's best, of course, to add the "suite" key prior to uploading/installing a given Gear. For those Gears which are already installed on a given system and missing a "suite" key, organization can still be achieved, however that requires a little help from Flywheel Support.