Shortcut Menu Question

[bcunningham90]

I have been trying to figure out how to modify the Shortcut Menu on the home page and I am having a hard time understanding why I am getting the results I am. I am hoping someone can explain what I am missing.

I fully understand that modifying the modules/home/menu.php is not upgrade safe. For now I am testing with this file and will move to custom/modules/Home/Ext/Menu/ if I can figure this out. But as of yet, any testing in the custom/ dir has not produced any results.

I remarked several lines from the menu.php to remove some of the existing shortcut menu items, this seemed to work fine.

I am now trying to add a couple modules to the shortcut menu using the following code example:

if(ACLController::checkAccess('Contacts', 'list', true))$module_menu[] = Array("index.php?module=Contacts&action=index&retu rn_module=Contacts&return_action=DetailView", $mod_strings['LNK_CONTACT_LIST'],"Contacts", 'Contacts');

This shows a box and the associated icon, but no text?? I have repaired extensions via admin but still nothing?

Am I missing something??

Thanks,

Brian

[davidboris]

Hi,

You should check whether LNK_CONTACT_LIST exists in language file under modules/Home or custom/modules/Home?

If no, add the one!

If yes, check the same in cache/modules/Home. If it doesn't exist there, please remove the files from cache folder. And then reload the page.

[bcunningham90]

Beautiful! Thank you David.. I am obviously new to PHP as well.. But that worked perfect.. Now I will try to do the same in custom/modules/Home.... and know to check the language file..

Thanks again!

Brian

[justins]

This great response, i have tackled several issues like those ones at LosAngeles web design but i believe David illustrated the best option for a person not well conversant with PHP, if you may need more complex solutions on how to go about just post it for my review.

[andopes]

I have been trying to figure out how to modify the Shortcut Menu on the home page and I am having a hard time understanding why I am getting the results I am. I am hoping someone can explain what I am missing.

I fully understand that modifying the modules/home/menu.php is not upgrade safe. For now I am testing with this file and will move to custom/modules/Home/Ext/Menu/ if I can figure this out. But as of yet, any testing in the custom/ dir has not produced any results.

I remarked several lines from the menu.php to remove some of the existing shortcut menu items, this seemed to work fine.

I am now trying to add a couple modules to the shortcut menu using the following code example:

if(ACLController::checkAccess('Contacts', 'list', true))$module_menu[] = Array("index.php?module=Contacts&action=index&retu rn_module=Contacts&return_action=DetailView", $mod_strings['LNK_CONTACT_LIST'],"Contacts", 'Contacts');

This shows a box and the associated icon, but no text?? I have repaired extensions via admin but still nothing?

Am I missing something??

Thanks,

Brian

If you want to remove shortcut menus so you need to create an extended menus for Home:
custom/Extension/modules/Home/Ext/Menus/somescript.php and unset the entries you want;
If you want to rename the label of some entries so you have to create an extended language:
custom/Extension/modules/Home/Ext/Language/en_us.somescript.php

Remember to Rebuild Extensions.

Cheers