How do I make a My Account link?

Posted by jdesrig on January 16, 2013 at 8:44pm

For some reason, my drupal installation didn't come with a 'My Account' link in the navigation bar, and I was trying to figure out how to do this. I thought that I could just use token as the path ([current-user:url] to be exact) but it said it was an invalid path name.

How can I make this link? (This question relates to my question at http://drupal.org/node/1889372 which was never answered, so if someone could elaborate, that would be great!)

Comments

The path to the user page is

Posted by bander2 on January 17, 2013 at 3:19am

The path to the user page is just "user".

That worked, thanks. But why

Posted by jdesrig on January 17, 2013 at 4:23pm

That worked, thanks. But why did it work? Where is the redirect set that it brings me to user/[username]?

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Posted by VM on January 18, 2013 at 12:11am

it's a dynamic link in core that recognizes the user clicking on the link.

Can you make sure it's not

Posted by Ayesh on January 17, 2013 at 9:56am

Can you make sure it's not disabled?
There was a thread about some bug if this in this forum but can't find it right now...

// Ayesh

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Posted by VM on January 18, 2013 at 12:19am

For some reason, my drupal installation didn't come with a 'My Account' link in the navigation bar,

not sure what you mean by navigation bar. If you mean the tool bar, you simply click on the user name. If you mean the navigation menu its not there because that's not the default placement. It defaults to the user menu.

using tokens in menus requires: http://drupal.org/project/menu_token