question Re: Employee center header change in Employee Slate and Employee Center forum

Employee center header change

Rajendar3 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:11:08 GMT

In the Employee Center header ...Can we rename My Tasks, My Requests to My Open Tasks & My Open Requests also I want to change the order of this menu ...If yes where it needs to be modified

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Re: Employee center header change

nameisnani — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:20:47 GMT

Hi @Rajendar3

Please follow the below steps

Select main menu in your case it is Employee Center Menu

From here u can rename

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Re: Employee center header change

nameisnani — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:43:37 GMT

Hi @Rajendar3

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Re: Employee center header change

Jonathan Ting — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:50:28 GMT

@Rajendar3 the only way to achieve that I know of, is to customise the 'Employee Center Header' widget. But then you really need to ask yourself is it really worth the risk and extra maintenance during upgrades/patching. Personally I wouldn't make this change, as it adds very little value and these widgets are still pretty new, which means ServiceNow are actively working on them.

If you use Sunil suggestion, it will create a new menu item on the mega nav bar, so you'll need to disable the items from the header menu in the instance with menu page. This option is all configuration, so it's a more OOB config approach.

Here's a screenshot from my PDI with the 2 options

Re: Employee center header change

nameisnani — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 12:16:03 GMT

Hi @Rajendar3

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Re: Employee center header change

Rajendar3 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:08:07 GMT

Under the "Employee Center" menu, there are no menu items available. The only item present is labeled as "More".

Re: Employee center header change

Rajendar3 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:10:31 GMT

Yes, it is possible to enable or disable the items. However, my specific requirement is to rename those menus.

Re: Employee center header change

nameisnani — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:29:03 GMT

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Re: Employee center header change

Dan O Connor — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:39:57 GMT

This is how to change header namings for Service Portal. In Employee Center the widget itself needs to be amended

Re: Employee center header change

Dan O Connor — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:41:16 GMT

@Rajendar3 To rename the menu items you will need to go to your Employee Center Portal record and open the Header Menu. In there you will see the widget being called.

If you look at the widget code, I think it is in HTML section, you will see the Menu names.

You will need to clone the OOTB Header in order to perform a rename, so be wary of the implications of that. But this is where you would rename the Header Menu items, in the widget itself.

Re: Employee center header change

BharathiDevY — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:20:28 GMT

HI
Then how to disable fields ex: My Favorites in ESC portal main menu

Re: Employee center header change

Dan O Connor — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:05:13 GMT

If you go into the Header Record in the ESC portal itself, you can see some JSON that has some menu items like favourites and cart you can enable and disable

Re: Employee center header change

Dan O Connor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:22:41 GMT

Just as an addition to folks who might come here and see this solution to search.

You can also use system translation (messages) as a kind of configurable way to change the Menu appearance.

Setup an English translation (or whatever language) and add the key and value. So for example

My Requests -> My Open Requests.

Whenever the system sees 'My Requests' it will change it to say 'My Open Requests'.