CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
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* Introduction
* Requirements
* Installation
* Configuration
* Customization
* Troubleshooting
* FAQ
* Maintainers
INTRODUCTION
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The Administration menu module displays the entire administrative menu tree (and
most local tasks) in a drop-down menu, providing administrators one- or
two-click access to most pages. Other modules may also add menu links to the
menu using hook_admin_menu_output_alter().
For a full description of the project visit the project page:
http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu
To submit bug reports and feature suggestions, or to track changes:
http://drupal.org/project/issues/admin_menu
REQUIREMENTS
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No special requirements
INSTALLATION
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Install as you would normally install a contributed Drupal. See:
https://drupal.org/documentation/install/modules-themes/modules-7 for further
information.
* You likely want to disable Toolbar module, since its output clashes with
Administration menu.
CONFIGURATION
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* Configure user permissions in Administration » People » Permissions:
- Use the administration pages and help (System module)
The top-level administration categories require this permission to be
accessible. The administration menu will be empty unless this permission is
granted.
- Access administration menu
Users in roles with the "Access administration menu" permission will see
the administration menu at the top of each page.
- Display Drupal links
Users in roles with the "Display drupal links" permission will receive
links to drupal.org issue queues for all enabled contributed modules. The
issue queue links appear under the administration menu icon.
Note that the menu items displayed in the administration menu depend on the
actual permissions of the viewing user. For example, the "People" menu item
is not displayed to a user who is not a member of a role with the
"Administer users" permission.
* Customize the menu settings in Administration » Configuration and modules »
Administration » Administration menu.
* To prevent administrative menu items from appearing twice, you may hide the
"Management" menu block.
CUSTOMIZATION
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* To override the default administration menu icon, you may:
1) Disable it via CSS in your theme:
body #admin-menu-icon { display: none; }
2) Alter the image by overriding the theme function:
Copy the entire theme_admin_menu_icon() function into your template.php,
rename it to phptemplate_admin_menu_icon() or THEMENAME_admin_menu_icon(),
and customize the output according to your needs.
Remember that the output of the administration menu is cached. To see changes
from your theme override function, you must clear your site cache (via
the "Flush all caches" link on the menu).
* To override the font size, add the following line to your theme's stylesheet:
body #admin-menu { font-size: 10px; }
TROUBLESHOOTING
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* If the menu does not display, check the following:
- Are the "Access administration menu" and "Use the administration pages and
help" permissions enabled for the appropriate roles?
- Does html.tpl.php of your theme output the $page_bottom variable?
* If the menu is rendered behind a Flash movie object, add this property to your
Flash object(s):
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
See http://drupal.org/node/195386 for further information.
FAQ
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Q: When the administration menu module is enabled, blank space is added to the
bottom of my theme. Why?
A: This is caused by a long list of links to module issue queues at Drupal.org.
Use Administer >> User management >> Permissions to disable the "display
drupal links" permission for all appropriate roles. Note that since UID 1
automatically receives all permissions, the list of issue queue links cannot
be disabled for UID 1.
Q: After upgrading to 6.x-1.x, the menu disappeared. Why?
A: You may need to regenerate your menu. Visit
http://example.com/admin/build/modules to regenerate your menu (substitute
your site name for example.com).
Q: Can I configure the administration menu module to display another menu (like
the Navigation menu, for instance)?
A: No. As the name implies, administration menu module is for administrative
menu links only. However, you can copy and paste the contents of
admin_menu.css into your theme's stylesheet and replace #admin-menu with any
other menu block id (#block-menu-1, for example).
Q: Sometimes, the user counter displays a lot of anonymous users, but no spike
of users or requests appear in Google Analytics or other tracking tools.
A: If your site was concurrently spidered by search-engine robots, it may have
a significant number of anonymous users for a short time. Most web tracking
tools like Google Analytics automatically filter out these requests.
Q: I enabled "Aggregate and compress CSS files", but admin_menu.css is still
there. Is this normal?
A: Yes, this is the intended behavior. the administration menu module only
loads its stylesheet as needed (i.e., on page requests by logged-on,
administrative users).
Q: Why are sub-menus not visible in Opera?
A: In the Opera browser preferences under "web pages" there is an option to fit
to width. By disabling this option, sub-menus in the administration menu
should appear.
Q: How can the administration menu be hidden on certain pages?
A: You can suppress it by simply calling the following function in PHP:
module_invoke('admin_menu', 'suppress');
However, this needs to happen as early as possible in the page request, so
placing it in the theming layer (resp. a page template file) is too late.
Ideally, the function is called in hook_init() in a custom module. If you
do not have a custom module, placing it into some conditional code at the
top of template.php may work out, too.
Q: What does the "Administration Development Tools" module do?
A: The Administration Development Tools adds a jQuery Debugger which allows
a developer to debug and inspect arbitrary data/variables in Firebug's
console, and also to access them again in the global window object
(optionally using a named identifier, e.g. window.debug.myValue).
Chainable via jQuery. Especially useful for re-accessing and debugging
selected data via Firebug's console.
MAINTAINERS
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Current maintainers:
* Daniel F. Kudwien (sun) - http://drupal.org/user/54136
* Peter Wolanin (pwolanin) - http://drupal.org/user/49851
* Stefan M. Kudwien (smk-ka) - http://drupal.org/user/48898
* Dave Reid (Dave Reid) - http://drupal.org/user/53892
* Truls S. Yggeseth (truls1502) - http://drupal.org/user/325866
* Sebastian Siemssen (fubhy) - https://www.drupal.org/user/761344
Major rewrite for Drupal 6 by Peter Wolanin (pwolanin).
This project has been sponsored by:
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