Comment 2 for bug 688428

Two menu items cant have the same linked file, if you want to link to another menu item you need to use symlinks, look at this example:

<menu name="Example Plugin" type="2" link="control-panel.example" hide="" rank="last" newwindow="" plugin="PHPDevShell" parentlink="" symlink="user/control-panel.php" alias="example-control" template="" height="" noautopermission="">
</menu>

So link can just be a random string explaining your place-holder.