User Menu

The User Menu is a drop-down menu serving as a combination of the “Site Actions” and “My Settings/Welcome” drop-down menus of a traditional SharePoint page.  The options displayed will differ, depending on the permissions for the user within the current site.

Table 2: User Menu Listings

Title: User Menu - SP2010 - Description: User Menu - SP2010
User Menu – SharePoint 2010

Title: User Menu - SP2013 - Description: User Menu - SP2013
User Menu – SharePoint 2013

To access the menu in SharePoint 2010, the user clicks on their name.  In SharePoint 2013, click on the gear/sprocket icon (Title: Gear/Sprocket Icon - Description: Gear/Sprocket Icon) in the top right corner of the page.

The resulting User Menu includes options to sign out of the site, view all site content, personalize the current page, and access the Site Settings page for the site.  Other options will appear, dependent upon the permissions the user has within the site and the SharePoint options enabled.

When the user chooses any of these pages, they will be taken out of the Application Designer Solution’s navigation.  The user will see the traditional SharePoint pages.