Header menu in the administration
You need an account that may use the settings pages of the administration (the Administrator role may). The example adds the page Showcase to the header menu of the Fit & Healthy site.
Contents
1. Find the node ID
Open the page in Content structure. The line under the buttons shows Node 192: that is the number the menu
needs (not the object number next to it).
Other ways to find it are on Find a node ID.
2. Open the menu settings
Go to Setup > Ini settings (section System). Choose INI file menu.ini and Siteaccess site, then press
Show settings.
Find the block [SiteInfo] and the setting MainMenuID[]. It lists the menu items in their order. Open Set in 2
files, 1 overridden to see where the list comes from: the theme extension sevenx_themes_media brings a list, and the
installation's file settings/siteaccess/site/menu.ini.append.php empties it (MainMenuID[]) and sets its own. The
second file wins, so that is the one to change.
3. Edit MainMenuID
Press Edit on the MainMenuID[] row. The edit page shows the same chain again, then New value:
- Type:
Array(leave it). - Value: one line per item,
=followed by the node ID. The first line is empty: that keeps the reset, so only these items are shown.
Add a line at the place where the item should appear. To make Showcase the last item, add =192 at the end.
Save it in stays at Siteaccess site only (settings/siteaccess/site/menu.ini.append.php), the file that already
holds the list.
4. Save
Press Save. The page returns to the settings of menu.ini with the message Saved: [SiteInfo] MainMenuID in
settings/siteaccess/site/menu.ini.append.php and marks the changed row. The list now has seven items.
Saving clears the INI caches. It does not clear the compiled templates, and the header's menu template is compiled with the list in it.
5. Clear the caches
In the Clear cache box on the right, choose Template & content and press Clear. That clears the compiled templates, the template blocks, the content view cache and the page (HTTP) cache together.
The choices of that box are: All caches, Content, Content - node, Content - subtree, Template, Template & content, Ini settings and Static.
6. Check the site
Reload the site. The header has the new item, with the page's name as its text.
Nothing appears? See Header menu troubleshooting.
Related pages
- Add a header menu item
- Header menu by command line
- Ini settings in the administration
- Caches after a change
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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