Customising The Top Menu

Hi all !

I,m a newbie here, so please excuse some of the expressions I use. I hope that you'll understand what I am asking:

I have installed the latest version of Dolphin and, I must say, it's a good system, if you have good nerves.

I have already done the basics like, changing the header, background etc. Now I am trying to add and change links on the top menu. I can change them easily, however, the end result is a menu item preceded by a hyphen (Language key). I have entered the item word into the Language Key settings and the new menu item word appears correctly on the button in the admin panel. The links work. The only problem is that the item word is showing in the menu drop-down with a hyphen. What am I doing wrong?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Did you fill in the Default Name for the menu item?  If you can, bring up the edit box for the menu item and take a screenshot and paste it here.

Hi Geek Girl,

Thanks for taking an interest. I have read many of your postings and answers in the forum.

I have uploaded 2 jpegs of the 'Edit Item'  and 'Language Settings' from the admin panel.

What I should explain first is, the Language key _Brixton. I don't know, if this is correct. First, I looked at the other listed items in the menu and noticed they all had a hyphen preceding them, so I entered the name '_Brixton' into the 'Language Settings' box and clicked on 'Apply'. The name was accepted. I then entered the name into 'System Name' and again into 'Language Key' (with the hyphen), and then the 'Default Name' (although this, apparently, does not need to be inserted). I the clicked on 'Save Changes', which then inserted the name onto the button in the admin. After I checked on the webpage, the name was there and the link was ok. However, there is a hyphen preceding the menu item word, which I can't seem to get rid of. Maybe you know what the problem is.

You have to add the language key to the system.  Go to admin -> settings -> language settings and click on "add key"  Add your language key with the underscore (_);  not hypen (-), _Brixton and enter the text you wish for the key, which I am guessing will be Brixton.

In the Default Name, remove the underscore, just put Brixton there.

In this case you really did not need a language key because Brixton will be Brixton even for other languages.  However, following good practices is never wrong.

Hi Geek Girl,

That is exactly what I did ! However, it did not work. In the meantime, I have solved the problem. It was the language key setting for 'Brixton', I had entered the word wrongly into the 'Language Key' settings. Now I know how to set language keys. Thank you very much indeed for the very quick response to my question and for your devoted time and effort.

I did look for help on the forums regarding the 'Language Key' settings. However, I could not find a detailed tutorial of how it should be done, now I know.

I have posted a small tutorial for those that have the same problem.

Two also cool ideas would be to disable cache for development time and to compile the main language after you do some changes to the strings.  This would help to avoid a lot of confusions.