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Locating/editing the dashboard drop down menu

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Hello, I have recently discovered C5 and I am having a lot of fun playing around with the guts of it all.

I am struggling to modify the drop down menu that appears when you over over the "Dashboard" tab...

I was able to locate and modify the main dashboard here:

"concrete/single_pages/dashboard/view.php"

I was hoping the drop down might also refer to this, but it did not.

I thought I had it when I found the following:

"concrete/helpers/concrete/dashboard.php"

But editing this seemed to do nothing at all... However, removing the file completely caused quite a few errors.

I seem to have looked everywhere.. Its probably staring me right in the face. Any ideas?
 
cwhill replied on at Permalink Reply
Nevermind..

I was right with "concrete/helpers/concrete/dashboard.php"

I should try clearing my cache in the future... Derp.
pmarques replied on at Permalink Reply
pmarques
You shouldn't edit core files directly, as that will mess up future updates - the next time you update Concrete5, all your customizations will be gone.

You should copy "concrete/helpers/concrete/dashboard.php" to "helpers/concrete/dashboard.php" - this way you'll be overloading the file and your customizations will survive future updates.

Also, if you're editing core files I highly recommend that you turn caching off for the duration of the development, or you'll find yourself losing a lot of time for forgetting to clear the cache and not seeing your changes.

Best of luck!