On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:39:07 +0100, tangent <drupal-devel@drupal.org> wrote:
Project: Drupal Version: 4.5.0 Component: menu system Category: bug reports Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: jasper Updated by: tangent Status: patch
It seems unlikely that I am the only one to notice/realize this so I'm probably missing something but ?=/user currently redirects to the "my account" url. Therefore, shortening the link to simply "/user" would make the url generic and serve the intended purpose no?
tangent
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November 19, 2004 - 16:03 : jasper
1. "my account" link can not be given "weight"
2. If edited, "my account" link behaves strangely: appears as separate menu in admin screen, disappears from navigation menu, etc.
3. Subitems can't be added under my account, or, strange things happen if you try to do that.
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November 25, 2004 - 06:36 : jasper
Reproduce the error:
1. Assign sub-menus to "my account" menu item
2. edit "my account" menu item - capitalize "My Account"
result:
1. sub-menus disappear from navigation block
2. "My Account" becomes separate Menu at the bottom of the menu administration page.
I would really like to capitalize the "my account" link. Any way to do that without bugging out the menus?
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December 18, 2004 - 01:05 : jasper
anybody?
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January 27, 2005 - 14:36 : JonBob
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/user_13.patch (705 bytes)
The "my account" menu item includes the user ID, so really cannot be customized. This is unfortunate. The attached patch corrects the mentioned bug by locking the menu item as it should be, but doesn't address the usability issue of not being able to customize the menu item. I suggest we move ahead with this patch for the 4.5 branch and, since time is short, likely 4.6.
Any suggestions for how to make this item editable? I think we'd need some way to have multiple paths for a single menu item... wildcards or something. But an implementation escapes me.
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January 27, 2005 - 14:50 : Steven
Perhaps we could change the path for "my account" to "user/me" or something? Link-wise it's not too hard to implement, just do "user/". ($account->uid == $user->uid ? "me" : $account->uid) or something when linking to that page.
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January 27, 2005 - 16:35 : Dries
The patch did not apply cleanly against DRUPAL-4-5. I modified the patch and committed it to DRUPAL-4-5 and to HEAD. I'm leaving this issue open for a couple more days.
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January 27, 2005 - 18:21 : Boris Mann
The same issue comes up with other menus that include the user ID (there are a couple, can't recall exactly which).
While user/me is interesting, it would then be inconsistent with things like blog/UID and blog/UID/feed.
Adding something like [uid] to menu creation might make menu code more complex, but should work.
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