Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/13184 Project: Drupal -Version: 4.5.0 +Version: 4.5.2 Component: menu system -Category: bug reports +Category: support requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: kevin lapalme Updated by: Drubu Status: active I was trying to figure out how to capitalize the *my account* link on the menu and I found a way to do it! Since you can't edit it via *Home » Administer » Menus*, if you open the file /user.module/ under the /module/ folder in a program such as Dreamweaver and do a search for *my account*... the first result should be the one you change. (I know this for sure for version 4.5.2) If you capitalize it, save it, and upload it, refresh your browser window a couple times, it should fix it. If you don't really care about the capitalization of words in the menu, then don't worry about it. Drubu Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 19, 2004 - 15:03 : kevin lapalme 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 25, 2004 - 05:36 : kevin lapalme 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ December 18, 2004 - 00:05 : kevin lapalme anybody? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 27, 2005 - 13:36 : 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 27, 2005 - 13:50 : 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 27, 2005 - 15:35 : 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 27, 2005 - 17:21 : 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 28, 2005 - 05:39 : tangent 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 28, 2005 - 07:18 : JonBob Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple. Neither "user" nor "user/me" works as we would like due to the introduction of tabs. Right now "user" is a callback that does a drupal_goto() to "user/52". This means that if there were a menu item that pointed to "user", when you clicked on it you would end up at a different URL, and the "my account" link would not appear as active/expanded in the menu. Implementing "user/me" instead has problems with the tabs, because we would then have to register "user/me/edit" and so forth to make things show up correctly.