Hi,

I have a ModelAdmin where I need to change the name that appears in CMSMenu, but I cannot just change the...

static $menu_title = 'MyAdminOldName';

...I NEED to find a way of doing it outside of just changing the original static declaration.

I have tried and failed with...

inside a custom leftandmain decorator (does nothing)...

$menu_item = CMSMenu::get_menu_item('MyModelAdmin');//does return the right CMSMenuItem
CMSMenu::replace_menu_item('MyModelAdmin','NewName',$menu_item->url,$menu_item->controller,$menu_item->priority);

inside the init function of the extended ModelAdmin (does nothing)...

public function init()
{
	$this->set_stat('menu_title','NewName');
}

in _config.php (complains about trying to use a database object before the database has been initialised)...

MyModelAdmin::set_stat('menu_title','NewName');

Any ideas?

Adding a translation to your languagefile will do the trick. Suppose your ModelAdmin class is called MyModelAdmin:

In cms/lang/en_US.php add:

$lang['en_US']['MyModelAdmin']['MENUTITLE'] = 'Some Menutitle';

-Martine

Now why didn't I think out that... Doh!

Many thanks Martimiz