By phoebe-1 on

(Drupal 4.6.4)

I installed the Menu module so I could break up the long Navigation menu into more useful and also context-relevant pieces.

I wanted to create a menu with all the items related to a person's personal settings and information: my account, my blog, my buddylist, etc, under the header of 'My Stuff' (or whatever) separate from the general menu items.

I created the menu and started moving items to it; unfortunately, I then discovered that some items are listed as 'locked' and I can't move them out of the main navigation menu. Since this includes the rather major items of 'my account' and 'my blog', as well as the module item 'my quotes', it render the idea of putting all those personal items together impossible.

So, I thought about doing it the other way and moving everything else out of the main menu so it just had the personal stuff, and then renaming it to 'my stuff'. That doesn't work either because there doesn't seem to be a way to change the main menu title.

Is there a way to 'unlock' those menu items so I can use the menu module properly?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Phoebe
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nedjo
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Menu items declared by modules in hook_menu() functions can have an optional 'type' property. The items you're looking at have the type MENU_DYNAMIC_ITEM, meaning they appear as appropriate (e.g., my account appears only if you are logged in). What you are looking for is e.g., 'type' =>MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM, which can then be configured.

What you might want to do is bypass the 'navigation' menu and build a different menu, selecting only the parts you want.

Or I suppose if you're comfortable editing the relevant module files, you could manually add the 'type' =>MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM properties. To find these, do a search through your module files for the text in the menu description, e.g.,

t('my account')

But it would get messy, as you would lose the MENU_DYNAMIC_ITEM functionality.

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phoebe-1 commented

Thanks for the reply.

I eventually played around with the menus and basically removed everything from 'navigation' except the personal 'my stuff' items, then disabled the name 'navigation' from the menu, so you end up with a menu of 'my stuff' underneath your username as a menu title. That left the locked items where they were. Good enough.

Then I built two other main menus, one for admin stuff for administrators and another for the areas of Town.

Phoebe

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scoonz commented

Take a look at this thread also:
http://drupal.org/node/29000

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