Submenu link not appearing (for Export page)

Exports
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Hi all, I’ve simplified Bracken’s Thin CC export plugin and am trying to move its options page from the ‘tools’ menu to the ‘export’ menu in the dashboard. See https://github.com/SteelWagstaff/candela-thin-exports/blob/master/pb-thin-exporter.php#L31. The problem I’m having is that the submenu link is not appearing under the export menu. I think the problem is how I’m referring to the parent slug (I’m using pb-export) but I’m stuck. Any help greatly appreciated.

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The current export menu item for Pressbooks appears to be loading as a child of admin.php. Don’t know if that makes any difference?

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	$plugin_page = add_submenu_page(
		'pb_export',
		'Export Common Cartridge',
		'Export Common Cartridge',
		'edit_posts',
		basename( __FILE__ ),
		'thincc_manage'
	);

Slug has underscore, not hyphen.
‘export’, there is no such capability, see // see https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

Regards.

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Thanks, Dac! I think Bracken may have defined the ‘export’ capability elsewhere (I left this arg unchanged), but I will replace with ‘edit_posts’. It looks to be working as expected now. Sorry to ask you to catch my typos for me!

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Oh, and I am seeing an ‘export’ capability on the reference doc you sent me: https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#export. Do you have an opinion about which would be more suitable in this use case?

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I’d look at the menu for Pressbooks’ export page. I believe we use the manage_options capability.

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Looks like you’re using ‘edit_posts’ there currently, unless I’m looking in the wrong place: https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/blob/84b697742de87dba9424fda93d27f7f3d0058347/inc/admin/laf/namespace.php#L186

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Yes, that’s correct— thanks for checking!

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I am seeing an ‘export’ capability on the reference doc you sent me.

I learn something new everyday. :slight_smile:

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