Shortcuts appear in the top menu, and when clicked on, show a second level of navigation. If there are a common set of tasks you use to manage your Drupal site, it may be useful to add them here.

You have been using the shortcuts throughout this module so far in the form of the links for Add content and All content.

You can set up multiple shortcut sets and assign them to different users. This allows you to set up easy navigation for different types of users of your site without exposing them to the full range of settings, which may be confusing.

Let's improve the default shortcut set now on our site at:

Configuration | User interface | Shortcuts (admin/config/user-interface/shortcut).

Press the List links button and you will see the three existing ones; two defaults and the Status report on you added back in Chapter 4, Getting Started with the UI.

We'll add two new shortcuts now using different techniques. Firstly, we'll add a shortcut to the permissions page, which will be useful in the next chapter.

Click on Add shortcut.

All we have to do now is give the link a name (Permissions) and then add the path: /admin/people/permissions.

Click on Save and rearrange the order so that they now appear like this:

We'll add another shortcut second in a different way like you did back in back in Chapter 4, Getting Started with the UI.

Go to Content | Comments and click on the star symbol next to the Comments title:

Go to Configuration | User Interface | Shortcuts (admin/config/user-interface/shortcut).

Your shortcuts set should now contain four links in total.

Note that you can change the order as before by returning to the listing page and dragging and dropping the list items.