Admin Menu needs a rebuild feature.

Are you referring to the "Wipe and rebuild" button that Admin provides? As far as I can tell, it completely wipes the management menu and then triggers the menu rebuild.

from the Admin module file admin.admin.inc line 193

/**
 * Wipe and rebuild the admin menu.
 */
function admin_settings_rebuild_submit($form, &$form_state) {
  db_delete('menu_links')
    ->condition('menu_name', 'management')
    ->execute();
  menu_rebuild();
  if (module_exists('block')) {
    cache_clear_all('admin', 'cache_block', TRUE);
  }
}

Is the issue that the menu_rebuild() function isn't actually updating those poorly parented menu items and leaving them in their "weird" state. Obviously the code inside that function can be ran using drush or devel's run php code option if you don't want to install Admin. I've had the weird views menu items sitting at the top of my Structure dropdown for months and it's driving me crazy.

Yes! I've been dealing with a similar issue on three of my multisites, and it's been driving me INSANE having a bunch of un-nested admin menu items. Installed Admin and ran a rebuild and it's good as new with zero effort. Thank you so much for pointing this out, liquidcms!

Hi all,

How to use code #3?

Thanks it did it for me too

@donapis
il you have the devel module, go to your_site/devel/php
paste the code and execute

@veroniqueg
I rarely use the devel module, but i'll give it a try. Thanks for the input.

I am sorry for no reply until now.

There are many issues regarding this module admin_menu which is a bit difficult for us to follow up since some of the issues might be already outdated, or is already fixed by the module or any other modules or itself core which means that the problem might no longer need to be fixed.

We can see that the issue has been created for a few years ago, I hope it is okay for you that I am postponing the issue, and give you around two weeks. If you still face the problem, could you tell us the step by step when until you get the error message or what is frustrated you, and a list of modules you are using related to admin_menu and a screenshot that might help us? So it makes us easier to reproduce your issue.

However, after two weeks with no feedback - we will close this issue. So in case, you noticed it after the issue is closed, do not hesitate to reopen it like and fill information which is mentioned above.

So before giving us a feedback, do you mind to test it again with our latest 7.x-3.x-dev?

Thank you for understanding! :)

Hey, @liquidcms!

Sure, we can re-open it at no problem. :)

It has been a challenge for us to keep all the old issues even before we joined to try to help to maintain the module. Therefore, I am trying to clean the issues and see which issues are still needed and priority of the Drupal community today. You are one of under ten people who responded the hundreds of issues which is up to eight years old.

So, you can just ignore the automatic message I posted earlier and let us see how we can fix it. :)

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#3 worked. Thank you!
I just enabled Devel module and go to "Execute PHP Code" devel/php
and pasted the code below without "<? php ?>" tags:

  db_delete('menu_links')
    ->condition('menu_name', 'management')
    ->execute();
  menu_rebuild();
  if (module_exists('block')) {
    cache_clear_all('admin', 'cache_block', TRUE);
  }