Adding Administration Menu Items - Not Appearing in Admin Menu

I'm having the same problem. Added new menu item to Admin menu and it shows up in the menu list but not in the dropdown. I have moved it around and reset the menus and trashed the cache all to no avail. Anyone?

Same behaviour. More, when i change the item labels (such as the shorter "content" instead of "content management"), the old admin menu in navigation reflects the change, the new advanced admin menu does not. It looks like the advanced menu lives his own life...

I have only got new items to show by wiping and rebuilding the menu every time I add an item. Another possible solution is to clear any cached data, as menus are cached.

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I'm encoutering the same issue - even after flushing cache and rebuilding the menu, my item doesn't appear. Has anyone discovered a solution to this?

By looking at the code,

in admin_menu.inc it says line 32:
If you want to alter links saved by admin_menu, use hook_menu_link_alter() and look for $item['module'] == 'admin_menu'

I don't believe we can change anything from the menu administration because the module is always reading a menu named 'admin_menu' from the `menu_links` table.
This menu doesn't exist and can't even be created since it has a special character.
The navigation menu is completely disconnected from the admin_menu and that's confusing: I believe the navigation menu gets updated automatically by new installed module and is only used on the admin block. However, the admin menu builds and rebuilds its menu tree dynamically from the code.

The only item I was able to add was a view: in the view settings, if you assign the view to the navigation menu, then it will show up in the admin menu header. But there is no way you can manage sub-items...

The question is do you want to add php code just for the purposing of adding menu items..

The term "menu" in Drupal has unfortunately two different meanings. One is visible menus, such as Navigation and Primary links – which can be displayed in blocks. One has to do with associating different paths with the functions to display the relevant pages. I'm no expert in Administration Menu, but it appears to be based on exclusively the second definition.

Thus, to make a menu item show in Administration Menu, it must have a path starting with "admin/". This is not possible with, say, nodes and user pages but is possible in (for example) Views where you can set your own path for page displays.

That Aministration Menu doesn't care about the first meaning of menus is confirmed if you turn off the core module Menu – Administration Menu will still work and display everthing mapped under admin/.

I hope this may shed some light on the isuue.

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You can create a new submenu item in a mini-module, like this:

function additional_admin_menu_links_admin_menu_output_alter(&$content) {

  // the new item
  $content["menu"]['0']['399'] = array(
    '#title' => t('Test'),
    '#href' => 'test-url',
    '#weight' => 10,
  );

}

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Set up the rest of the item as you like but the type must be set to MENU_NORMAL_ITEM to appear, or so it seems!

This goes into hook_menu when declaring your admin pages, no other changes were required.

$items['admin/settings/MYMODULE'] = array(
      'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
    );

also make sure you are clearing your caches

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Refering to this thread http://drupal.org/node/276751#comment-4018194
#75 comment solution worked for me. I was trying with only the path setting with my view, but then I added a "normal menu entry" inside my views settings, under navigation menu, and I finally got it in the so practical Admin Menu. Hope it'll help for someone else too.

good afternoon, I explain my case: I have trouble visualizing a management of menu options, previously saw but now appears which seems weird. the truth that worries me because I can not create my newsletters and even in the upper left part of the run cron I appeared which also appears without that I can not send my notifications and then every time after I have sent a bulletin to run cron so you can get to all staff.
  if I could help or any comments. the intranet is in drupal 6

thank you very much

Same problem here - I can't add menu item to administration menu...

EDIT: with path: [admin]

Please follow the below steps to add menu in admin panel

Go to Administration -> Structure -> Menus
Click on 'Add links' in 'Management' menu row
Add 'Menu link title' and 'Path' for menu item.
Set 'Parent link' for the menu item, so it would display in correct position.
Save the form

If you are trying to add a top-level menu item manually via admin/structure/menu, and that item has no children, you may need to check "expanded" to have the item show up in the admin menu bar.