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Jeff,

You can create a plugin and add the link that way. Please see the Plugin Tutorial for more information. A real life example can be found here: http://github.com/edavis10/redmine-timesheet-plugin/blob/master/init.rb#L37

--Holger

Thanks for that,

seems a bit of a faff just to add a menu item but I can see how it may be useful as we add more tweaks.

Cheers

it seems that you should edit the "lib\redmine.rb" files to achieve that
please see my Question "How can I add a MenuItem "...I cant figure it out either,but Im pretty sure we should modify the 'lib\redmine.rb' to get it done

You should not edit lib/redmine.rb as this prevents easy updates.

You can however create a simple plugin as stated above. To do that, perform the following steps:

1. Run script/generate redmine_plugin add_link to create a new plugin.
2. Edit vendor/plugins/redmine_add_link/init.rb and put the following code in it:
   

   require 'redmine'
   
   Redmine::Plugin.register :redmine_rt_link do
     name 'Redmine Add Link'
     author 'Holger Just'
     url 'http://dev.holgerjust.de/projects/redmine-misc'
     author_url 'http://meine-er.de'
     version '0.1.0'
     requires_redmine :version_or_higher => '0.8.0'
   
     # caption can also be a i18n symbol or a proc
     menu :top_menu, :my_link, {:controller => 'my_controller', :action => 'my_action'},
          :caption => "My title" 
   end
   

   
   That way, your menus get added without the need to edit any core redmine files and breaking updatability.

The available options for the menu function are documented in the Plugin_Tutorial.

This a valid way to add issues and activites links on 2.3.0

# Add menu items
menu :top_menu, :issues, { :controller => 'issues', :action => 'index' }, :last => true,  :caption => :label_issue_plural
menu :top_menu, :all_activities, {"controller"=>"activities", "action"=>"index", "id"=>nil}, :last => true,  :caption => :label_activity

Detailed quick instruction (>=2.3)¶

Environment: CentOS 6, Phusion Passenger Apache module

• Open terminal (make sure you are using it as actual site owner (not root) or change files owner latee)
• Use command: cd <pah to your redmine folder>
• Use command: ruby script/rails generate redmine_plugin <my_plugin_name>
• Use command: cd plugins/<my_plugin_name>
• Use some editor to modify your plugin: vi init.rb
• Add on top of file
  

  require 'redmine'
  

• Replace plugin name etc with your desired info
• add before string end these new lines
  

  # Add menu items
  menu :top_menu, :issues, { :controller => 'issues', :action => 'index' }, :last => true,  :caption => :label_issue_plural
  menu :top_menu, :all_activities, {"controller"=>"activities", "action"=>"index", "id"=>nil}, :last => true,  :caption => :label_activity
  

• Save your changes
• use command: /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Your init.rb should look something like this:

require 'redmine'

Redmine::Plugin.register :top_menu do
    name 'Top Menu'
    author 'Me'
    description 'Adds some items on top menu'
    version '1.0.0'
    url 'http://redmine.org'
    author_url 'http://redmine.org'
    requires_redmine :version_or_higher => '2.0.0'
    # Add menu items
    menu :top_menu, :issues, { :controller => 'issues', :action => 'index' }, :last => true,  :caption => :label_issue_plural
    menu :top_menu, :all_activities, {"controller"=>"activities", "action"=>"index", "id"=>nil}, :last => true,  :caption => :label_activity
end

Hey there, the linking to the global issues doesn't work for me, as long as I am currently using the controller within a project...hope you understand what I mean!?

This is what I added to my init.rb:

menu :top_menu, :top_issues, {:controller => 'issues', :action => 'index', :id => nil},  :caption => :label_issue_plural

Any ideas?

David Rahusen wrote:

Any ideas?

Try :project_id => nil.

Yeah, thanks, just found that on my own...I've been trying that before, but within the wrong line... -_-

Thanks anyway

Hi,

Here is my environment :
Redmine version 2.4.3.stable
Ruby version 1.9.2-p0 (2010-08-18) [x86_64-linux]
Rails version 3.2.16

I am a redmine beginner and I know nothing about programming except copy/paste ;) Since I thought I had the same needs as David I tried :

menu :top_menu, :top_issues, { :controller => 'issues', :action => 'index' }, :project_id => nil, :last => true, :caption => :label_issue_all

and many other things in vain...Then, following this post, I found something that works fine for my needs :

menu :top_menu, :all_issues, { :controller => 'issues', :action => 'index', :project_id => @project, :set_filter => 1}, :last => true, :caption => :label_issue_all

With " label_issue_all: Toutes les demandes" in config/locales/fr.yml :)

Thanks all.

An update for 2.5 users to edit lib/redmine.rb to change the top menu.

Removes help menu and adds Activity and Issues.

Redmine::MenuManager.map :top_menu do |menu|
  menu.push :home, :home_path
  menu.push :my_page, { :controller => 'my', :action => 'page' }, :if => Proc.new { User.current.logged? }
  menu.push :projects, { :controller => 'projects', :action => 'index' }, :caption => :label_project_plural
  menu.push :administration, { :controller => 'admin', :action => 'index' }, :if => Proc.new { User.current.admin? }, :last => true
  # menu.push :help, Redmine::Info.help_url, :last => true
  menu.push :all_activities, { :controller => 'activities', :action => 'index' }, :caption => :label_activity
  menu.push :issues, { :controller => 'issues', :action => 'index' }, :caption => :label_issue_plural
end

cool ! how to add a custom url?
I've tried to remove some item but nothing changes: I'm using landing_page plugin and I think it overwrites this customization