Customize Site Action Menu in SharePoint

Chandresh Pansuriya
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Here I am going to show, how to create Site Action Menu Customize in Sharepoint site.

For that we have to know that what is custom action ?

Custom Actions

Custom actions are links, toolbar buttons and menu items that you can add to or hide from the SharePoint's user interface. Each custom action exists in a specific location, and depending on that location, can be a part of a group of actions.

With a custom action feature, you can:

Add a new Custom Action Group which can be used to group custom actions in a specific options screen;
Add a new Custom Action which can be a new option in a settings screen, a new menu item, or a new toolbar button;
Hide an existing Custom Action whether that action is the result of custom action feature or it belongs to SharePoint's out-of-the-box features.

Now we start Customize SiteAction Menu For that we have make two XML file Like Feature.xml and Element.xml.

Feature Manifest

I will only present a simple feature manifest; you can put your xml file on C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES path within New Folder. Like: UserInterfaceCustomActions folder pastes that feature.xml file.

<? xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<Feature xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"

Id="5DFD12AF-D0AA-4c63-8FB8-C49DB1191083"

Title="My Custom Action Feature"

Description="Adds Custom Actions to the Web Site."

Scope="Web"

Version="1.0.0.0">

</ElementManifests>

</Feature>

Notes about this feature manifest:

The title of the feature is My Custom Actions Feature.
It will be deployed as a Web Site feature, since its Scope value is Web.
It references a single element manifest file: CustomActions.xml.

Element Manifest

The element manifest file can have any name you wish (in this example it's called CustomActions.xml), but it's root element must be <Elements>. Inside this root element, you can place any number of feature element descriptions. In this example I will present the use of three feature elements:

<CustomActionGroup> used to create new custom action groups;
<CustomAction> used to create new custom actions;
<HideCustomAction> used to hide existing actions.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
    
    <CustomActionGroup
        Id="MyActionGroup"
        Description="This group contains all my custom actions."
        Title="My Action Group"
        Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.SiteSettings"
        Sequence="30" />

<CustomAction
        Id="MyCustomAction"
        Description="This link is a custom action."
        Title="My Custom Action"
        GroupId="MyActionGroup"
        Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.SiteSettings"
        Rights="ManageWeb"
        RequireSiteAdministrator="FALSE"
        Sequence="20">
        <UrlAction Url="~sitecollection/_layouts/MyCustomPage1.aspx" />
    </CustomAction>

<CustomAction
        Id="MyNewCustomAction"
        Description="This menu item is a new custom action."
        Title="My New Custom Action"
        GroupId="SiteActions"
        Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu"
        ImageUrl="/_layouts/MyActionIcon.jpg"
        Sequence="10">
        <UrlAction Url="~sitecollection/_layouts/MyCustomPage2.aspx" />
    </CustomAction>

<HideCustomAction
        Id="HideDeleteWeb"
        GroupId="SiteAdministration"
        Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.SiteSettings"
        HideActionId="DeleteWeb" />
</Elements>

In command prompt, type the following commands to install the Feature in the deployment, activate the feature on a specified sub site, and then reset Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) so that the changes can take effect

stsadm -o installfeature -filename UserInterfaceCustomActions\feature.xml
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename UserInterfaceCustomActions\feature.xml -url http://Server/Site/Subsite
Iisreset.

Now you can open the site which gave URL in above command no. b and then go to site Action menu on left hand side on site and show your custom site action menu like My New Custom Action.