Magento – Magento show dropdown menus in the admin dashboard from custom module

adminhtmlconfigurationmagento-1.7module

I am just a newbie to magento. I want to add two menus in the top menu section of admin dashboard.
The menu will be like this

Storeinfo(parent)
  Store1(child menu level1/dropdown1)
  Store2(child menu level2/dropdown2)

So that when I will make hover on Storeinfo menu it should show Store1 and Store2 as dropdown.
For that my config.xml file is like this

<adminhtml>
  <menu>
    <storeinfo module="storeinfo">
      <title>Storeinfo</title>
      <sort_order>71</sort_order>
      <children>
        <items module="storeinfo">
          <title>Store1</title>
          <sort_order>1</sort_order>
          <action>storelocator/adminhtml_storeinfo</action>
        </items>
        <items module="storeinfo">
          <title>Store2</title>
          <sort_order>0</sort_order>
        </items>            
      </children>
    </storeinfo>
  </menu>
</adminhtml>

But here with this code I can see only Store2 from the dropdown. So I want to know how can I show two dropdown menus? Any help and suggestions will be really appreciable. Thanks

Best Answer

Rename your second menu tag into something else.
I mean rename this:

<items module="storeinfo">
   <title>Store2</title>
   <sort_order>0</sort_order>
</items>

To 

<items1 module="storeinfo">
   <title>Store2</title>
   <sort_order>0</sort_order>
</items1>

A menu tag must be unique in the xml structure. Adding a second item with the same name causes the first one to be overwritten.
[EDIT]
If your initial xml worked but was showing only one submenu this should show you the full menu:

<adminhtml>
  <menu>
    <storeinfo module="storeinfo">
      <title>Storeinfo</title>
      <sort_order>71</sort_order>
      <children>
        <items module="storeinfo">
          <title>Store1</title>
          <sort_order>1</sort_order>
          <action>storelocator/adminhtml_storeinfo</action>
        </items>
        <items1 module="storeinfo">
          <title>Store2</title>
          <sort_order>0</sort_order>
        </items1>            
      </children>
    </storeinfo>
  </menu>
</adminhtml>
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