trying to get dashboard settings, annotations and templating views be opened via url parameters

src/app/controllers/sidemenuCtrl.js

 define([
   'angular',
   'lodash',
+  'jquery',
 ],
-function (angular, _) {
+function (angular, _, $) {
   'use strict';
 
   var module = angular.module('grafana.controllers');
@@ -13,11 +14,12 @@ function (angular, _) {
       {
         text: "Dashbord",
         href: "/",
+        startsWith: '/dashboard/',
         icon: "fa fa-th-large",
         links: [
-          { text: 'Settings', href:"asd", icon: "fa fa-cogs" },
-          { text: 'Templating', href:"asd", icon: "fa fa-cogs" },
-          { text: 'Annotations', href:"asd", icon: "fa fa-bolt" },
+          { text: 'Settings',    editview: 'settings',    icon: "fa fa-cogs" },
+          { text: 'Templating',  editview: 'templating',  icon: "fa fa-cogs" },
+          { text: 'Annotations', editview: 'annotations', icon: "fa fa-bolt" },
           { text: 'More', href:"asd", icon: "fa fa-bolt" },
         ]
       },
@@ -26,8 +28,8 @@ function (angular, _) {
         icon: "fa fa-shield",
         links: [
           { text: 'Data sources', href:"/account/datasources", icon: "fa fa-sitemap" },
-          { text: 'Users', href:"/account/datasources", icon: "fa fa-users" },
-          { text: 'API Keys', href:"/account/datasources", icon: "fa fa-key" },
+          { text: 'Users', href:"/account/users", icon: "fa fa-users" },
+          { text: 'API Keys', href:"/account/apikeys", icon: "fa fa-key" },
         ]
       },
       {
@@ -39,12 +41,18 @@ function (angular, _) {
       }
     ];
 
+    $scope.onAppEvent('$routeUpdate', function() {
+      $scope.updateState();
+    });
+
     $scope.onAppEvent('$routeChangeSuccess', function() {
       $scope.updateState();
     });
 
     $scope.updateState = function() {
       var currentPath = $location.path();
+      var search = $location.search();
+
       _.each($scope.menu, function(item) {
         item.active = false;
 
@@ -52,9 +60,25 @@ function (angular, _) {
           item.active = true;
         }
 
+        if (item.startsWith) {
+          if (currentPath.indexOf(item.startsWith) === 0) {
+            item.active = true;
+          }
+        }
+
         _.each(item.links, function(link) {
           link.active = false;
 
+          if (link.editview) {
+            var params = {};
+            _.each(search, function(value, key) {
+              if (value !== null) { params[key] = value; }
+            });
+
+            params.editview = link.editview;
+            link.href = currentPath + '?' + $.param(params);
+          }
+
           if (link.href === currentPath) {
             item.active = true;
             link.active = true;

src/app/directives/dashEditLink.js

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ define([
 function (angular, $) {
   'use strict';
 
+  var editViewMap = {
+    'settings': 'app/partials/dasheditor.html',
+    'annotations': 'app/features/annotations/partials/editor.html',
+    'templating': 'app/partials/templating_editor.html',
+  };
+
   angular
     .module('grafana.directives')
     .directive('dashEditorLink', function($timeout) {
@@ -25,7 +31,7 @@ function (angular, $) {
 
   angular
     .module('grafana.directives')
-    .directive('dashEditorView', function($compile) {
+    .directive('dashEditorView', function($compile, $location) {
       return {
         restrict: 'A',
         link: function(scope, elem) {
@@ -48,10 +54,13 @@ function (angular, $) {
             if (editorScope) { editorScope.dismiss(); }
           }
 
-          scope.onAppEvent("dashboard-loaded", hideEditorPane);
           scope.onAppEvent('hide-dash-editor', hideEditorPane);
 
           scope.onAppEvent('show-dash-editor', function(evt, payload) {
+            if (payload.editview) {
+              payload.src = editViewMap[payload.editview];
+            }
+
             if (lastEditor === payload.src) {
               hideEditorPane();
               return;
@@ -70,6 +79,14 @@ function (angular, $) {
               lastEditor = null;
               editorScope = null;
               hideScrollbars(false);
+
+              if (payload.editview) {
+                var urlParams = $location.search();
+                if (payload.editview === urlParams.editview) {
+                  delete urlParams.editview;
+                  $location.search(urlParams);
+                }
+              }
             };
 
             // hide page scrollbars while edit pane is visible

src/app/features/account/partials/apikeys.html

-<div ng-include="'app/partials/navbar.html'" ng-init="pageTitle='Account > API Keys'"></div>
+<div ng-include="'app/partials/navbar.html'" ng-init="pageTitle='Account'"></div>
 
 <div class="dashboard-edit-view" style="min-height: 500px">
 

src/app/features/account/partials/datasources.html

-<div ng-include="'app/partials/navbar.html'" ng-init="pageTitle='Admin'"></div>
+<div ng-include="'app/partials/navbar.html'" ng-init="pageTitle='Account'"></div>
 
 <div class="dashboard-edit-view" style="min-height: 500px">
 	<div class="editor-row">

src/app/features/account/partials/users.html

-<div ng-include="'app/partials/navbar.html'" ng-init="pageTitle='Account > Users'"></div>
+<div ng-include="'app/partials/navbar.html'" ng-init="pageTitle='Account'"></div>
 
 <div class="dashboard-edit-view" style="min-height: 500px">
 

src/app/features/dashboard/viewStateSrv.js

@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ function (angular, _, $) {
     };
 
     DashboardViewState.prototype.syncState = function() {
+      if (this.state.editview) {
+        this.$scope.appEvent('show-dash-editor', { scope: this.$scope, editview: this.state.editview });
+        return;
+      }
+
       if (this.panelScopes.length === 0) { return; }
 
       if (this.fullscreen) {

src/app/partials/sidemenu.html

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 	</div>
 
 	<ul class="sidemenu">
-		<li ng-repeat-start="item in menu">
+		<li ng-repeat-start="item in menu" ng-class="{'active': item.active}">
 			<a href="{{item.href}}" class="sidemenu-item"><i class="{{item.icon}}"></i>{{item.text}}</a>
 		</li>
 		<li ng-repeat-end ng-if="item.active">
@@ -21,31 +21,7 @@
 	</ul>
 </div>
 
-<section class="pro-sidemenu-items">
-	<!-- <a class="pro&#45;sidemenu&#45;link" ng&#45;href="{{appSubUrl}}/"> -->
-		<!-- 	<i class="fa fa&#45;th&#45;large"></i> -->
-		<!-- 	Dashboards -->
-		<!-- </a> -->
-	<!-- <a class="pro&#45;sidemenu&#45;link" href="account/datasources"> -->
-		<!-- 	<i class="fa fa&#45;sitemap"></i> -->
-		<!-- 	Data -->
-		<!-- </a> -->
-	<!-- <a class="pro&#45;sidemenu&#45;link" href="account/users"> -->
-		<!-- 	<i class="fa fa&#45;users"></i>Users -->
-		<!-- </a> -->
-	<!-- <a class="pro&#45;sidemenu&#45;link" href="account/apikeys"> -->
-		<!-- 	<i class="fa fa&#45;key"></i>API Keys -->
-		<!-- </a> -->
-	<!-- <a class="pro&#45;sidemenu&#45;link" href="account/import"> -->
-		<!-- 	<i class="fa fa&#45;download"></i> -->
-		<!-- 	Import -->
-		<!-- </a> -->
-	<!--  -->
-	<!-- <a class="pro&#45;sidemenu&#45;link" href="profile"> -->
-		<!-- 	<i class="fa fa&#45;user"></i> -->
-		<!-- 	Profile -->
-		<!-- </a> -->
-	<!--  -->
+<section class="pro-sidemenu-items" style="position: fixed; bottom: 0; width 200px; left: 0;">
 	<a class="pro-sidemenu-link" href="admin/users" ng-if="grafana.user.isGrafanaAdmin">
 		<i class="fa fa-institution"></i>Admin
 	</a>
@@ -62,7 +38,6 @@
 	<a class="pro-sidemenu-link" href="login?logout">
 		<i class="fa fa-sign-out"></i>Sign out
 	</a>
-
 </section>
 
 </div>