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To my customer account dashboard (and index) I want to add a custom (direct) link to a product category. This product category is only visible to logged in customers, that's why I want to have it here, too (not just in the basic store category view /listing)

I managed to list the link with adding

<action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer">
    <name>downloads_category</name>
    <url>catalog/category/view/id/93</url>
    <label>Downloads Category</label>
</action>

to the <customer_account> block in my customer.xml file. But I struggle on getting the rewritten URL (downloads.html, as set in rewrite management). The rewrite-URL works fine in the frontend.

Using downloads.html as the <url></url> parameter will end up adding a link to /.../downloads.html/ (with that unwanted trailing slash).

Edit: I'm running Magento CE 1.9.2.2

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You can use a helper in your layout to generate the URL.
Take a look at this subject, it may help you : Use a helper in a layout

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  • So du you suggest that there's no "native" way to do that in magento?
    – rob_st
    Mar 2, 2016 at 11:31
  • If by native way you mean pure XML no, but this solution don't need any override or third extension, so this is kinf of native way ;)
    – Matthéo Geoffray
    Mar 2, 2016 at 17:29
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I managed to get the rewritten URL as href with using the urlParams as follows:

<action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer">
    <name>downloads-category</name>
    <url>catalog/category/view/id/101</url>
    <label>Downloads</label>
    <urlParams>
         <_direct>downloads.html</_direct>
    </urlParams>
</action>

It's not dynamic but at least it is not a non-SEF-URL.

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