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DescribeAppMenuResult

The describeAppMenu() call returns a list of menu items contained in the specified menu type. The following types are available in API version 29.0 and later.

Name	Type	Description
appMenuItems	DescribeAppMenuItem[]	Array of one or more menu items in the selected menu type.

DescribeAppMenuItem

Each DescribeAppMenuItem object has these fields:

Name	Type	Description
colors	DescribeColor[]	Array of color information used for the tab associated with the menu item.
content	string	Information that helps build the menu item. Each menu item has a different type of content for this field. For example, the Salesforce app menu type could contain: FlexiPage—the ID of the Lightning page Visualforce tab—the URL to the page, such as /apex/myApexPage. Menu items of types other than these don’t use this field.
icons	DescribeColor[]	Array of icon information used for the tab associated with the menu item.
label	string	The display label of the menu item.
name	string	API name of the menu item.
type	string	The type of menu item, and its subtype, if any. Possible values for the Salesforce app menu type are: Standard.Dashboards—Dashboards menu item Standard.Feed—Chatter feed menu item Standard.Today—the Today menu item Standard.Tasks—Tasks menu item Tab.apexPage—a Visualforce tab menu item Tab.flexipage—a Lightning page tab menu item
url	string	The Salesforce URL the menu item should point to. For the Salesforce app menu type, this field is `null` for the Dashboards, Feed, Today, Tasks, and Lightning page menu items.