SharePoint MOSS/WSS-How to remove the "Download a Copy" context menu from a Document Library

One of my friend and colleague asked me this question. I found it tricky and a good post for my blog. Here's what we have to do:

Go to your hive\template\layouts\1033 folder. Open up the Core.js file. Find the function Addsendsubmenu. Go to the last 3 lines:

"Stsnavigate ('""/_layouts/download.aspx?" ) "Sourceurl=" "&source=" "&fldurl=" " ')""" ""id_downloadacopy";

Now if you want to remove "Download a Copy" option from the document libraries then comment all three lines.

If you want to remove it for some custom List Definition so you have the created you could do like:

if  (ctx.listtemplate!=10001) {straction =  "S Tsnavigate (' " + CTX. Httproot +  "/_layouts/download.aspx?"  +  "sourceurl="  + Currentitemescapedfileurl +  "&source="  + getsource () +  "&fldurl="  + escapeproperly (ctx. Sendtolocationurl) + ;; Menuoption = camopt (SM, L_downloadacopy_text, straction, ); Menuoption.id =  "id_downloadacopy" ;} 

Where 10001 was your The custom list template ID.

If you want to does it for a specific the Document Library then you would does like this:

if  (ctx.listname!= "{ 28958b49-8c76-4987-815c-cf5a107ff522} "" {straction =  "stsnavigate ('"  + CTX.) Httproot +  "/_layouts/download.aspx?"  +  "sourceurl="  + Currentitemescapedfileurl +  "&source="  + getsource () +  "&fldurl="  + escapeproperly (ctx. Sendtolocationurl) + ;; Menuoption = camopt (SM, L_downloadacopy_text, straction, ); Menuoption.id =  "id_downloadacopy" ;} 

As you can see you has to pass the list GUID as ListName.

SharePoint MOSS/WSS-How to remove the "Download a Copy" context menu from a Document Library