How To Add Menu Action On Your Office 365 SharePoint Sites

In this blog, we will see how to add a menu option in Office 365 SharePoint site. We can add the menu option on the top right corner of the Settings page or as a navigation on the site’s  Setting link.

Let’s see how we can add the menu action using script.

• Open your site
• Go to Edit Page by clicking on the Settings gear in the top-right corner
  
  
  

• Click on Check Out
  
  
  
• You will see the Edit page of the site
• Click on “INSERT” under Media and Content and add "Script Editor".
  
  
  
  
• Open the Script Editor and paste the code given below. 
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• Code Snippet
  

  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function() {
          SP.SOD.executeFunc('sp.js', 'SP.ClientContext', AddSettingsMenuAction);
      });
  
      function AddSettingsMenuAction() {
          //Read the web
          var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext();
          var oWeb = clientContext.get_web();
          //Add the new custom action
          var collMenuAction = oWeb.get_userCustomActions();
          var menuAction = collMenuAction.add();
          menuAction.set_location('Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu');
          menuAction.set_sequence(101);
          menuAction.set_group('SiteActions');
          menuAction.set_title("My Home");
          menuAction.set_url("https://sharepointworldbymanpreet.wordpress.com/");
          menuAction.update();
          //Load the group details and execute
          clientContext.load(collMenuAction);
          clientContext.executeQueryAsync(ScriptSuccess, ScriptFailure);
      }
      //Log Success Details
      function ScriptSuccess() {
          console.log("Menu Added");
      }
      //Log Failure Details
      function ScriptFailure() {
          console.log(args.get_message());
      }
  </script>

• Click on OK.
  
  
  

• You will see a “My Home” menu button attached to your menu option.

Using this script, you can add the menu items of your choice for all the users who will access the SharePoint sites.

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