WSS3SDK add actions to the user interface in the site collection

Feature makes it easier to add menus that operate to the Windows SharePoint Services user interface. The following example shows how to add an operation to a variety of menus through feature and actually deploy and activate it.

Location and Group IDs

Before you define a custom action for a specific menu, you must identify the menu by setting its zone information as the appropriate WSS namespace and using WSS to identify the ID of a particular zone ...

For example, if you want to add a custom action to the Site Settings page, you need to set the CustomAction Location property to Microsoft.SharePoint.SiteSettings. The GroupID property is then used to specify a specific area of the page.

Different actions may require different customaction properties to identify the menu where the custom action is placed. However, you may also need to specify additional parameters for the operation, such as specifying a version number, the user permission requirements for the operation, or the relationship to the existing operation in the menu. The following custom action examples show a variety of properties.

URL Tokens

WSS supports the following tokens that can be used before a relative URL address:

~site-site (SPWEB) relative links.

~sitecollection-site collection (SPSite) relative links.

At the same time, you can also use the following notation in the URL:

{ItemId}-the integer ID represents the list item in the list.

{Itemurl}-the URL of the managed list item. For documents in the library only. [Invalid in Beta 2]

{Listid}-represents the GUID for the list.

{SiteURL}-Web site URL (SPWeb).

{Recurrenceid}-duplicate item ID. The token is not available for the context menu of the list item.

Steps

Create a extensions\12\template\features under C:\Program files\common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server Userinterfacelightup Folder.

Create a feature.xml file in the new Userinterfacelightup folder to provide a list of elements for the Feature, as follows:

<?xml　version="1.0"　encoding="utf-8"　?>
<Feature　Id="GUID"
Title="Light　Up"
Description="This　example　shows　how　you　can　light　up　various　areas　inside　Windows　SharePoint　Services."
Version="1.0.0.0"
Scope="Site"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<ElementManifests>
<ElementManifest　Location="Lightup.xml"　/>
</ElementManifests>
</Feature>