Upgrading ISiteCustomNavigationPlugin and ICustomNavigationItem to UI.Version3

Adding to the above, I see that the velocity script version of CustomNavigationItem has a "children" property.  The Extensibility.UI.Version3 version of CustomNavigationItem does not.  Is there no way to add child navigation elements now?  (just looking to go a single layer deep). 
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Children are defined via end-user configuration and usage of individual custom navigation plugins. The plugins themselves were never intended to populate their own children -- they would be populated or replaced by the platform based on the custom navigation configuration of the end-user.

If I understand what you're saying, the only way to accomplish this is via manually configuring the site navigation via the UI.  Correct?

Can I put in a feature request to add this capability back? It was very useful.  We have a list of services that don't change frequently, but do change.  Being able to pull that list in from the a central location and build (and cache) the navigation to each on the fly was very useful.

You can definitely file a feature request, however, this would (as it has) conflict with the purpose/design of custom navigation items where end-users define what the hierarchy is. It may be better to implement the hard-coded portion of the navigation via a customization of the navigation widget and not as a custom navigation item with hard-coded children.

Ben Tiedt I guess I don't have a choice but to mark the above as the verified answer.  However, given that this is a capability that I've had in my customization of Telligent Community / Verint Community since version 5.x, I feel like it absolutely was in harmony with the purpose of the custom navigation, at least at one point.  If my end users didn't want a list of Services then they didn't have to include that element in the navigation. I really like a lot of the other changes that the team is making, but I'll miss this one.

Ben Tiedt I guess I don't have a choice but to mark the above as the verified answer.  However, given that this is a capability that I've had in my customization of Telligent Community / Verint Community since version 5.x, I feel like it absolutely was in harmony with the purpose of the custom navigation, at least at one point.  If my end users didn't want a list of Services then they didn't have to include that element in the navigation. I really like a lot of the other changes that the team is making, but I'll miss this one.