1 /* $Id: README.txt,v 1.20.2.8 2009/01/16 20:39:26 sun Exp $ */
5 The Drupal administration menu module displays the entire administrative
6 menu tree (and most local tasks) in a drop-down menu, providing administrators
7 one- or two-click access to most pages. Other modules may also add menu
8 links to administration menu using hook_admin_menu().
10 For a full description of the module, visit the project page:
11 http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu
13 To submit bug reports and feature suggestions, or to track changes:
14 http://drupal.org/project/issues/admin_menu
24 * Install as usual, see http://drupal.org/node/70151 for further information.
29 * Configure user permissions in Administer >> User management >> Permissions >>
32 - access administration menu
34 Users in roles with the "access administration menu" permission will see
35 the administration menu at the top of each page.
37 - display drupal links
39 Users in roles with the "display drupal links" permission will receive
40 links to Drupal.org issue queues for all enabled contributed modules. The
41 issue queue links appear under the administration menu icon.)
43 Note that the menu items displayed in the administration Menu depend on the
44 actual permissions of the viewing user. For example, the "User management"
45 menu item is not displayed to a user who is not a member of a role with the
46 "administer permissions" and "administer users" permissions.
48 * Customize the menu settings in Administer >> Site configuration >>
51 * To prevent administrative menu items from appearing twice, you may hide the
52 "Navigation" menu block, or move the "Administer" menu items into a separate
58 * To override the default administration menu icon, you may:
60 1) Disable it via CSS in your theme:
62 body #admin-menu-icon { display: none; }
64 2) Alter the image by overriding the theme function:
66 Copy the entire theme_admin_menu_icon() function into your template.php,
67 rename it to phptemplate_admin_menu_icon() or THEMENAME_admin_menu_icon(),
68 and customize the output according to your needs.
70 Remember that the output of the administration menu is cached. To see changes
71 from your theme override function, you must clear your site cache (via
72 the "Flush all caches" link on the menu).
74 * To override the font size, add the following line to your theme's stylesheet:
76 body #admin-menu { font-size: 10px; }
81 * If the menu does not display, check the following:
83 - Are the "access administration menu" and "access administration pages"
84 permissions enabled for the appropriate roles?
86 - Does your theme output the $closure variable?
88 * If the menu is rendered behind a Flash movie object, add this property to your
91 <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
93 See http://drupal.org/node/195386 for further information.
98 Q: When the administration menu module is enabled, blank space is added to the
99 bottom of my theme. Why?
101 A: This is caused by a long list of links to module issue queues at Drupal.org.
102 Use Administer >> User management >> Permissions to disable the "display
103 drupal links" permission for all appropriate roles. Note that since UID 1
104 automatically receives all permissions, the list of issue queue links cannot
105 be disabled for UID 1.
108 Q: After upgrading to 6.x-1.x, the menu disappeared. Why?
110 A: You may need to regenerate your menu. Visit
111 http://example.com/admin/build/modules to regenerate your menu (substitute
112 your site name for example.com).
115 Q: Can I configure the administration menu module to display another menu (like
116 the Navigation menu, for instance)?
118 A: No. As the name implies, administration menu module is for administrative
119 menu links only. However, you can copy and paste the contents of
120 admin_menu.css into your theme's stylesheet and replace #admin-menu with any
121 other menu block id (#block-menu-1, for example).
124 Q: Sometimes, the user counter displays a lot of anonymous users, but no spike
125 of users or requests appear in Google Analytics or other tracking tools.
127 A: If your site was concurrently spidered by search-engine robots, it may have
128 a significant number of anonymous users for a short time. Most web tracking
129 tools like Google Analytics automatically filter out these requests.
132 Q: I enabled "Aggregate and compress CSS files", but admin_menu.css is still
133 there. Is this normal?
135 A: Yes, this is the intended behavior. the administration menu module only loads
136 its stylesheet as needed (i.e., on page requests by logged-on, administrative
140 Q: Why are sub-menus not visible in Opera?
142 A: In the Opera browser preferences under "web pages" there is an option to fit
143 to width. By disabling this option, sub-menus in the administration menu
147 Q: How can the administration menu be hidden on certain pages?
149 A: You can suppress it by simply calling the following function in PHP:
151 module_invoke('admin_menu', 'suppress');
153 However, this needs to happen as early as possible in the page request, so
154 placing it in the theming layer (resp. a page template file) is too late.
155 Ideally, the function is called in hook_init() in a custom module. If you do
156 not have a custom module, placing it into some conditional code at the top of
157 template.php may work out, too.
163 * Daniel F. Kudwien (sun) - http://drupal.org/user/54136
164 * Peter Wolanin (pwolanin) - http://drupal.org/user/49851
165 * Stefan M. Kudwien (smk-ka) - http://drupal.org/user/48898
166 * Dave Reid (Dave Reid) - http://drupal.org/user/53892
168 Major rewrite for Drupal 6 by Peter Wolanin (pwolanin).
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