My apologies if this has already been requested. It seems like it would make life SO much easier to create/manipulate custom menus if the My Account Link were not locked to the Navigation menu. I know there's a number of work arounds, however, it seems to me like one should be able to put the My Account Menu item where ever one wants.

Thanks for the consideration.

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vm’s picture

Version: 5.4 » 7.x-dev

A) you should be using Drupal 5.5 Drupal 5.4 had problems that were fixed with the release of Drupal 5.5

B) a request should be made against the next version of Drupal that is accepting feature requests which would be Drupal 7

I also don't see the need for this to happen, one can create a new menu item called "my account" and then the link can be moved around as desired.

greg.harvey’s picture

I also don't see the need for this to happen, one can create a new menu item called "my account" and then the link can be moved around as desired.

That would be great, if it worked. :-(

You can't create a dynamic menu item with the GUI. So you create it in your module instead, something like this in hook_menu(), right?

	$items[] = array(
		'path' => 'user/'.$user->uid,
		'title' => t('My account'),
		'type' => MENU_CUSTOM_ITEM,
	);

And yes, now the 'My account' item is not locked and has an edit button. However, the edit button links to menu/item/edit/-212 and gives a 404!

So, are the steps described above actually going to work in Drupal 7? If so, I agree they're fine. But the above does not work in Drupal 5.5, so far as I can tell - I've been banging my head against this for over a week and asked dozens of folk who all shrug their shoulders!

webernet’s picture

Version: 7.x-dev » 6.x-dev
Status: Active » Fixed

The 'My account' item is editable in Drupal 6.

greg.harvey’s picture

Hallelujah! I'm going to run outside and dance in the garden, even though it's raining. ;-)

Anonymous’s picture

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.