Introduction

Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in SharePoint 2010.

Question: What is Site Action Menu?

In simple terms "It enables creation of a menu item with some action in the site actions menu using an empty element".

Step 1: Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and navigate to a specific site.

Step 2: Open up Visual Studio 2012 and create an "Empty SharePoint project":

OpenSharepoint2010Project.jpg

Step 3: Select "Deploy as a farm solution" as in the following and click the "Finish" button. Now an empty project is created.

CustomizationSharepointWizard.jpg

Step 4: Add a new empty element for that project.

AddNewItemSharepoint2010.jpg

Step 5: The complete code of Element.xml looks like this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<CustomAction Id="SiteActionsToolbar"GroupId="SiteActions"Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu"Sequence="1000"ImageUrl="http://cs411130.userapi.com/v411130244/994/FevM7PsZQnQ.jpg"Rights="FullMask"Title="Microsoft"Description=
"Click For Microsoft">
 <UrlAction Url="http://www.microsoft.com"/>
 </CustomAction>
</Elements>

Step 6: The output of the application looks like this:

OutputSHarepoint2010.jpg

I hope this article is useful for you.