# Adding Support Email and URL to Help Menu

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/adding-support-email-and-url-to-help-menu/436>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [July 16, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/adding-support-email-and-url-to-help-menu/436 "2019-07-16T17:28:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/adding-support-email-and-url-to-help-menu/436/4 "2019-07-16T18:41:12Z")

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Oh I misread that you were expecting the support email to appear in the dropdown. It does state that in the documentation:

[https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/release-1.6/customization.html#add-urls-to-help-menu](https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/release-1.6/customization.html#add-urls-to-help-menu)

> Support Email OOD\_DASHBOARD\_SUPPORT\_EMAIL [oschelp@osc.edu](mailto:oschelp%40osc.edu)

And this is incorrect in that that env var is actually only currently used in one location - a register page that shows an error if you are not a registered developer. I’ll remove this line from that table in the documentation.

If you want to display a link for sending an email, one way is to modify the text on the dashboard’s homepage. You can do that [Customization — Open OnDemand 1.6.7 documentation](https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/release-1.6/customization.html#customize-text-in-ondemand) and in particular [Customization — Open OnDemand 1.6.7 documentation](https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/release-1.6/customization.html#change-the-dashboard-tagline). Your custom yaml locale file might look like:

```auto
en:
  dashboard:
    welcome_html: |
      %{logo_img_tag}
      <p class="lead">OnDemand provides an integrated, single access point for all of your HPC resources.</p>
      <p>For help, <a href="https://uri/to/support">email support</a></p>

```

And you would get a result like:

 ![55%20PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/osc/original/1X/39b9e48adae13c687d9b0bec209505ff46f1205d.png)

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