Magento 2 – Show Link in Account Navigation for Specific Customer Groups

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I have a link which I've added to the Account Navigation in Magento2. It's called VIP Customer Info.

I would like to be able to hide or disable this link depending on weather the customer is logged in and belongs to the VIP customer group.

Any suggestions on how this could be possible? I have tried the method below but it didn't work 🙁

Maybe I need to manage it from template file?

I thought I could achieve this by using a method from custom block in view/frontend/layout/customer_account.xml

<referenceBlock name="customer_account_navigation">
    <block class="Holy\Vip\Block\Html\Link\Vip" name="customer-account-navigation-vip-info-link">
        <action method="isVipCustomer">
            <arguments>
                <argument name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">VIP Customer Info</argument>
                <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">vip/customer/info</argument>
            </arguments>
        </action>
    </block>
</referenceBlock>

But this didn't work, it just stopped the link from being rendered at all.

This is my block class:

<?php

namespace Holy\Vip\Block\Html\Link;


class Vip extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current
{
    public function isVipCustomer()
    {
        return true;
    }
}

Unfortunately, this does not work. It just shows a empty space with a link to the homepage no matter what the return value:

Best Answer

You can use toHtml() method

public function toHtml(){
      if(true){
           return parent::toHtml();
      }
      return null;
}

You can replace if condition with some valid condition

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You need to rewrite Magento's Customer Mage_Customer_Block_Account_Navigation Block class.

create config.xml file in the app/code/local/Neo/CustomerNavigationLinks/etc

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks>
            <version>0.0.1</version>
        </Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks>
    </modules>
    <global>
        <blocks>
            <customer>
                <rewrite>
                    <account_navigation>Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks_Block_Account_Navigation</account_navigation>
                </rewrite>
            </customer>
        </blocks>
        <helpers>
            <customernavigationlinks>
                <class>Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks_Helper</class>
            </customernavigationlinks>
        </helpers>
    </global>
</config>

in Neo/CustomerNavigationLinks/Block/Account/ careate a file called Navigation.php with the following content in it

<?php

class Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks_Block_Account_Navigation extends Mage_Customer_Block_Account_Navigation
{
    public function removeLinkByName($name)
    {
        unset($this->_links[$name]);
        return $this;
    }
}
?>

in app/etc/modules create a file called Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks.xml with the following content

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks>
            <active>true</active>
            <codePool>local</codePool>
        </Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks>
    </modules>
</config>

Now in local.xml add following content

<customer_account>
        <reference name="customer_account_navigation">
            <action method="removeLinkByName">
                <name>newsletter</name> 
            </action>
        </reference>
</customer_account>

Magento 1.9 – How to Add External Link to Customer Account Navigation

I think you are simply missing the block definition from your module's config.xml.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Cygnus_ExternalCustomerLink>
            <version>0.3.9</version>
        </Cygnus_ExternalCustomerLink>
    </modules>
    <frontend>
        <layout>
            <updates>
                <cygnus_externalcustomerlink>
                    <file>cygnus_externalcustomerlink.xml</file>
                </cygnus_externalcustomerlink>
            </updates>
        </layout>
    </frontend>
    <global>
        <helpers>
            <cygnus_externalcustomerlink>
                <class>Cygnus_ExternalCustomerLink_Helper</class>
            </cygnus_externalcustomerlink>
        </helpers>
        <blocks>
            <cygnus_externalcustomerlink>
                <class>Cygnus_ExternalCustomerLink_Block</class>
            </cygnus_externalcustomerlink>
        </blocks>
    </global>
</config>

I would also suggest switching from upper case to lower case with the block and helper definitions simply to match with Magento standards.

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