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Using Administration Menu and Shortcuts in Drupal

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An OSTraining members took our recommendation and installed the Administration Menu module, which makes it much easier to navigate through your Drupal site.

However, after enabling Administration Menu, they found that they lost their Shortcuts menu. This is normally the grey bar under Drupal's default admin toolbar.

Here's how to use Administration Menu and Shortcuts together.

First, make sure that "Administration menu" is enabled, but also make sure that the "Administration menu Toolbar style" module is enabled:

Using Administration Menu and Shortcuts in Drupal

Now go to Configuration > Administration Menu and you'll now be able to check the "Shortcuts" box, as in the image below. This will re-enable the Shortcuts menu.

If you don't see the Shortcuts menu immediately, try clicking the down arrow in the top-right corner:

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