SmartMenus 2.2 focuses on making migration from DeluxeMenus seamless.
The converter now handles slot priority and view requirements automatically,
and the engine natively supports unlimited priority levels on any slot.

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Slot Priority — N Levels Supported

SmartMenus now supports conditional item display with unlimited priority levels on a single slot.
Instead of a numbered priority system, SmartMenus uses a clean chain of view-requirements + else-item.

Each else-item can have its own view-requirements and its own else-item, creating a full priority chain:

How it works:

• SmartMenus checks the top item's view-requirements
• If they pass → that item is displayed
• If they fail → it moves to the else-item and checks its view-requirements
• This repeats down the chain until an item matches or the chain is exhausted

Previously, else-item was a static fallback with no conditions.
It now supports the full feature set: view-requirements, nested else-item, actions, close, glow, item_flags, and custom model data.

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DeluxeMenus Converter — Priority & view_requirement

The /smartmenus convert deluxemenus command now fully handles two previously unsupported DM features:

Priority

When multiple items share the same slot with different priority values in DeluxeMenus, the converter automatically chains them into the SmartMenus priority system:

Items are sorted by priority number (lowest first = highest priority) and chained automatically.

view_requirement

The view_requirement block on any item is now converted to SmartMenus view-requirements.

Supported DM requirement types:

DeluxeMenus type	SmartMenus type
has permission	PERMISSION
has money	VAULT_MONEY
has exp lvl / has exp level	XP_LEVEL
has item	ITEM
>= / <= / == / > / < / !=	PLACEHOLDER
string equals	PLACEHOLDER_EQUALS
string contains	PLACEHOLDER_CONTAINS
javascript / regex matches	skipped (not supported)

deny_commands from view_requirement are intentionally skipped — SmartMenus handles access silently by simply not rendering the item.

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Other Changes

else-item is now fully featured — Previously, else-item only supported material, name, lore, and actions. It now also supports close, glow, item_flags, item_type, item_id, and custom_model_data, matching the full item spec.

Bottom inventory respects priority chains — Items in use_bottom_inventory GUIs now also walk the full view-requirements + else-item chain, consistent with regular GUI slots.

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Upgrading from 2.1

Drop the new jar in, restart. No config changes required.

Existing GUIs using else-item continue to work identically — the new chain logic only activates when else-item itself contains a view-requirements block.

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Created by Oreo Studios · SmartMenus 2.2