The Ribbon UI and Custom Actions in SharePoint 2010

 Geoff Varosky  Jornata  Managing Consultant, Senior Architect, Senior Developer, Director of Evangelism  Co-Founder Boston Area SharePoint Users Group  Co-Organizer SharePoint Saturday Boston  Blog –  –  Twitter  LinkedIn & Facebook

 Introducing the Ribbon UI  Demo  What are Custom Actions?  Demo  Resources  Q&A

 Anything that can be put into an HREF anchor tag or “link” linky linky

 Can be bound to…  Lists  Tasks, Document Libraries, Custom, etc.

 Can be bound to…  File Types  By Extension -.docx,.pl,.foo,.bar

 Can be bound to…  Content Types  Tasks, Documents, Custom  All (0x)   Programmatic Identifiers  Tasks List (107)  Content Types (0x)

 SharePoint Designer 2010  Build Custom Actions  List Item Menu (Context Menu)  List View, Edit, Display Forms  Visual Studio 2010  Import from WSP file  Add functionality  Package  Deploy

 ~site  Site (Web)  ~sitecollection  Site Collection  {ItemId}  GUID representation of the current item  {ItemUrl}  URL of the current item  {ListId}  {ListURL}  {RecurrenceId}

 Id (optional)  Specifies a unique identifier for custom action  May be a GUID or a unique term  Example: DeleteWeb  GroupID (optional)  Identifies the unique group that this element is contained in  Example: SiteTasks

 Location (optional) – Specifies the location for this custom action – Example: Microsoft.SharePoint.SiteSettings  RegistrationType (optional) – Specifies the list, item content type, file type, or programmatic identifier that this action is associated with – Example: List

 RegistrationId (optional) – Specifies the registration attachment for a per-item action – Example (List Identifier – Task List): 107  {$ListId:Lists/Tasks;}  (  Title (required) – Specifies the name of your action – Example: DeleteWeb

 Description (optional) – Longer description for action which is shown as a tooltip or sub-description (where applicable) for the action – Sequence (optional) – The order in which your action will appear. – If not specified, displayed in the order it is read by SharePoint by Feature and by order in element listing (XML).

 {ListId}  GUID representation of the list  {SiteUrl}  References the URL of the SPWeb context the action is called from  {RecurrenceId}  Unsupported in context menus 

 MSDN  Custom Action Definition Schema  CommandUI Defintions, Extensions, Handlers  CustomAction, CustomActionGroup, HideCustomAction  Default Locations and IDs   Eric Kraus  Listing all Custom Actions in the Farm with PowerShell 

 Wictor Wilén  Creating Custom Ribbon Extensions  Part  Part  Using JavaScript + Custom Actions to navigate Document Libraries 

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 Geoff Varosky  Jornata  Managing Consultant, Senior Architect, Senior Developer, Director of Evangelism  Co-Founder Boston Area SharePoint Users Group  Co-Organizer SharePoint Saturday Boston  Blog –  –  Twitter  LinkedIn & Facebook