UI16: How to update the user menu

Ever wanted to add an item in the drop down menu on the header orcustomize the sections of the user preferences? Here's one way.

So it seems ServiceNow is built on jelly, and if you know the names of themacros and ui pages you can overwrite them. So I was able to find the nameof the macro. How? That's a day for another post. I'll just go over theconcourse_user_menu today. In the image on top, I pasted the code.

So you want to add something to it. Make a UI Macro called concourse_user_menuwith the following xml. I added a link to DuckDuckGo. But you can see howthis works.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="glide"> <div class="dropdown pull-left" role="application"> <button id="user_info_dropdown" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false" title="${gs.getMessage('User menu')}" aria-label="${gs.getMessage('User menu')}" > <div> <sn-user-avatar class="sn-avatar_xs" aria-hidden="true" disable-popover="true" profile="{avatar: '$[gs.getUser().getAvatar()]', initials: '$[gs.getUser().getInitials()]', userID: '$[gs.getUserID()]'}" enable-presence="true" /> <span class="user-name hidden-xs hidden-sm hidden-md"> $[HTML,NG:gs.getUser().getDisplayName()] </span> <span class="sr-only"> ${gs.getMessage('User menu')} </span> <elevate-role-indicator/> <span class="caret"/> </div> </button> <ul class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="user_info_dropdown"> <li role="presentation"> <a href="sys_user.do?sys_id=${gs.getUserID()}&sysparm_view=ess" target="gsft_main" role="listitem" tabindex="-1" > ${gs.getMessage('Profile')} </a> </li> <j:if test="${gs.getProperty('glide.ui.impersonate_button.enable')}"> <j2:if test="$[new GlideImpersonate().canImpersonate(gs.getUserID())]"> <li role="presentation"> <a href="javascript:void(0)" id="glide_ui_impersonator" sn-modal-show="impersonate" role="listitem" tabindex="-1"> ${gs.getMessage('Impersonate User')} </a> </li> </j2:if> </j:if> <g2:evaluate var="jvar_elevated_privileges" expression="gs.getSession().getAvailableElevatedRoles()" /> <j2:if test="${!empty(jvar_elevated_privileges)}"> <li role="presentation"> <a href="javascript:void(0)" sn-modal-show="elevateRoles" role="listitem" tabindex="-1"> ${gs.getMessage('Elevate Roles')} </a> </li> </j2:if> <j2:if test="$[gs.getUser().getPreference('user.can.logout') == 'true']"> <li role="presentation"> <a href="logout.do" role="listitem" tabindex="-1"> ${gs.getMessage('Logout')} </a> </li> </j2:if> <li role="presentation"> <a href="https://ddg.gg" role="listitem"> Welcome to the #duckside </a> </li> </ul> </div></j:jelly>