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According to Developing a MVC Component/Developing a Basic Component, proper place of setting Menu Section name is helloworld.xml file. Particularly

<administration>
    <!-- Administration Menu Section -->
    <menu link='index.php?option=com_helloworld'>Hello World!</menu>

But instead of having "Hello World!" I have "hello-world".
Maybe 'menu' tag has some attributes, which can help me set proper name for my Component?
I'm using Joomla! 3.4.3 Stable

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I modified my helloworld.xml

<administration>
    <!-- Administration Menu Section -->
    <menu link='index.php?option=com_helloworld'>COM_HELLOWORLD_DISPLAY_MENU_NAME</menu>
    <menu view="viewname">COM_HELLOWORLD_DISPLAY_MENU_NAME</menu>

...

    <files>
    <folder>admin/language</folder>
  </files>

  <languages>
    <language tag="en-GB">admin/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_helloworld.sys.ini</language>
  </languages>

</extension>

en-GB.com_helloworld.sys.ini:

COM_HELLOWORLD_DISPLAY_MENU_NAME="Hello World menu item"


My understanding is, that I need to show Joomla where to copy language file. How to do this?

- folder
-- admin
--- language
---- en-GB
----- en-GB.com_helloworld.sys.ini
--- helloworld.php
-- site
--- helloworld.php
-- helloworld.xml

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  • The Hello World! tutorial has a chapter on language files. I've noticed the same issue with the menu name, but if you ignore it for now and continue on the tutorial it sorts itself out after adding language strings in the corresponding chapter.
    – johanpw
    Jul 5, 2015 at 13:49
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The format you are using is normally associated with sub-menu's - I think the tutorial is incorrect/out of date — in our components the main administration menu item looks like this:

    <menu img="../media/com_componentName/images/icon.png">COM_COMPONENT_XML_NAME</menu>

I would recommend reading the article on Joomla Manifest files and the section on menus and sub-menus - it shows an example of the attributes required.

<menu>COM_EXAMPLE</menu>
<submenu>
    <!--
        Note that all & must be escaped to &amp; for the file to be valid
        XML and be parsed by the installer
    -->
    <menu link="anoption=avalue&amp;anoption1=avalue1">COM_EXAMPLE_SUBMENU_ANOPTION</menu>
    <menu view="viewname">COM_EXAMPLE_SUBMENU_VIEWNAME</menu>
</submenu>
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  • I assume, it should be called as menu item. This item is situated under Components menu. It opens proper admin page (my page for my component). But the displayed name is not, what I was expecting.
    – Andrii Muzychuk
    Jul 5, 2015 at 5:48
  • this is helping. Please, tell me how to specify language file so it is copied to administrator/language/en-GB It is copied only to language/en-GB
    – Andrii Muzychuk
    Jul 5, 2015 at 6:21
  • This is really another question but since Joomla 1.6 language files (and the folder they're sorted in should remain inside your components folder - see docs.joomla.org/Manifest_files#Language_files
    – Craig
    Jul 5, 2015 at 6:24
  • I saw this doc. It doesn't help me to name menu properly.
    – Andrii Muzychuk
    Jul 5, 2015 at 6:26

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