At 7:56 PM -0800 13/1/06, Neil Drumm wrote:
I've dealt with the menu system a bit in the past couple days.
Yes, thanks Neil. You're doing some great work. I can't wait to see the finished version of that patch you accidentally posted the other day :)
I don't think I would ever want to use the reset menu items option on real site; it seems like more of a developer tool.
Does anyone have a reasonably common use for this page that I'm not seeing? I can move it over to the devel module if not.
There is currently no way to set some flags on menus through the admin interface. MENU_VISIBLE_IF_HAS_CHILDREN is the one that immediately springs to mind, and MENU_VISIBLE_IN_BREADCRUMB. See http://drupal.org/node/29621 for a story about these. If a menu is created with one of these options and subsequently edited, that flag may be cleared and the only way to get it back is to reset the menu item. I plan to write a contrib module that adds a bunch of extra options to the menu system, and a way to explicitly edit these flags will be the first feature. I'm not sure this is a good enough reason to justify the existence of the reset feature. I'm just pointing out that it does have a use. ...Richard.