Comments on Chris O'Brien: Customizing the ribbon (part 1) – creating tabs, g...

Great Work Chris.It helped me a lot in customizing...

2011-12-25T17:35:24.095Z

Great Work Chris.It helped me a lot in customizing the SP ribbon

@All - the link to the list of template IDs has no...

2011-10-03T08:12:48.270+01:00

@All - the link to the list of template IDs has now been updated, as have many of the other points. Many thanks for the feedback!

Chris.

Hi, The "full lists of ids" does no lon...

2011-08-22T10:56:44.687+01:00

Hi,

The "full lists of ids" does no longer exists:

http://simeonlobo.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/sharepoint-list-template-ids/http://simeonlobo.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/sharepoint-list-template-ids/http://simeonlobo.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/sharepoint-list-template-ids/

Where could it be found now?

Nevermind, found the problem... missing a GroupTem...

2011-05-27T21:20:23.207+01:00

Nevermind, found the problem... missing a GroupTemplate. After re-adding that, working correctly. Great post Chris. You can simply ignore my prev question.

Hi Chris, thanks for this great content. I'm ...

2011-05-27T20:59:57.818+01:00

Hi Chris, thanks for this great content.

I'm trying this out, as-is, just copy & paste, and when I navigate to a 101 doc lib, tabs spin showing a "Loading..." message.

Any idea?

@Michael, Excellent, good to hear you got sorted....

2011-03-17T12:09:42.911Z

@Michael,

Excellent, good to hear you got sorted.

Chris.

Hello again, I already resolved issue: I removed R...

2011-03-17T11:10:39.603Z

Hello again, I already resolved issue: I removed RegistrationID and RegistrationType tags, performed iisreset and cleared browser cache and my group is visible from every place.

Regards
Michael

So basically I want to add new group to Library/Do...

2011-03-17T10:16:10.029Z

So basically I want to add new group to Library/Documents contextual tab. My custom action is defined like this:

http://pastebin.com/4FEUR5de

But this group is visible only from Library sites i.e. Shared Documents. I want it to be visible from every site page, everytime the Library contextual tab is shown. What should I change to make it visible with all Library contextual tab?

Regards
Michael

@Michael, Sure - I'll try to help if you post...

2011-03-17T00:28:11.609Z

@Michael,

Sure - I'll try to help if you post the details here.

Thanks,

Chris.

Hello Chris, first of all great article. It was ve...

2011-03-16T11:50:56.921Z

Hello Chris, first of all great article. It was very helpful. But I have small problem I created custom group and button for ribbon in Library/Documents contextual tab and it is visible from sites in Library category i.e. shared documents site but it is not from any other site when Library contextual tab appear. I dont know if it is good idea to put my code in comment right here so I will not. But maybe you know what the problem might be?
Regards
Michael

I have an issue with the OOTB Ribbon Commands. I ...

2011-02-10T22:52:39.257Z

I have an issue with the OOTB Ribbon Commands. I am creating a new Master Page. Nothing new here I have done literally hundreds of them. However, I now amd seeing a postback error. Realted to a few of the ribbon elements. Show Ribbon,Hide Ribbon and the edit page buttons. I have not added a new ribbon. First Time, I have seen this: Invalid postback or callback argument. I am at a loss to how this is being caused??

@Jake, Glad to hear you got sorted - RefreshComma...

2011-01-04T21:24:59.416Z

@Jake,

Glad to hear you got sorted - RefreshCommandUI() is indeed key in the RTM version of SP2010.

Cheers,

Chris.

P.S. Sorry that your original question seems to have been dropped by my blog host. (For other readers this was just a statement that the sample wasn't working as advertised, and as noted in these comments it's RefreshCommandUI() which is needed.)

Ignore my last message. I was able to get it worki...

2011-01-04T16:02:40.662Z

Ignore my last message. I was able to get it working using the RefreshCommandUI. Should have read the feedback thread first.

Thanks,
Jake

@Anonymous, You can use Feature Explorer in Visua...

2010-12-09T23:35:37.192Z

@Anonymous,

You can use Feature Explorer in Visual Studio 2010 to control which elements files are referenced by a Feature.

HTH,

Chris.

@Panny, No, you shouldn't modify CMDUI.XML - ...

2010-12-09T23:26:16.130Z

@Panny,

No, you shouldn't modify CMDUI.XML - check out my answer to @BeginningSharePoint2010 above for how to go about using a 'Feature' to supply the custom XML to SharePoint.

Thanks,

Chris.

Hi Chris, Awesome Post. It helped me a lot. I am ...

2010-12-09T18:18:27.469Z

Hi Chris,

Awesome Post. It helped me a lot. I am fairly new to SharePoint 2010 & want to badly customize the ribbon. I get that the ribbon components are stored in that XML file in the GLOBAL folder. But if you want to customize the ribbon, where we need to upload the new XML or we need to change the CMDUI.XML itself. I read your entire post & this is the only thing which is not clear. Please can you include the whole process i.e. what we need to exactly do to customize the ribbon. Upload the new xml somewhere or modify the existing XML.

Thanks & Regards,
Panny

Very good post! I have a small problem though. I ...

2010-12-02T14:06:18.104Z

Very good post!

I have a small problem though. I am a true beginner so this might be a stupid question.

I have created an XML-file in my project, and pasted your code. I have also created a feature but the feature does not "find" my XML-file so I can not add it to the feature.

Great job Chris. I am working on customizing the V...

2010-11-18T19:31:45.133Z

Great job Chris.
I am working on customizing the View Item ribbon of Calendar list. That is, I am required to move the "Export Event" from Custom Commands to any of the View groups.
To give more description: When you hit View Item a new window shows up with View and Custom Commands tabs. One of the project requirement is to move (or copy) the Export Event to View tab. Here I can create separate group on View tab. But I am not required to do this. I tried to get the location of this Ribbon Control. What is the location of this control and how do you customize this? Any help please?

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately im not able...

2010-11-18T14:49:49.879Z

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately im not able to use the HideCustomAction element. This removes the button and this will cause an error (something inside SharePoint depends on the button to exist).

I've tried to remove it with CSS but the "big" button (the root of the menu or whatever it might be called) is still showing and I dont know how to change this.

I will redesign my solution so I dont have to do this...

Regards,
Martin

@Martin, Good question. I think what you'd ha...

2010-11-18T11:39:07.721Z

@Martin,

Good question. I think what you'd have to do in this case is hide the original button and put one of your own in there. I can't think of a way to extend the original functionality, outside of making changes to the original workflow.

You'd use HideCustomAction to remove the original button from the ribbon.

HTH,

Chris.

Chris, first of all, thanks for a great blog seri...

2010-11-18T10:03:50.271Z

Chris,

first of all, thanks for a great blog serie. It helped me a lot!

Do you have any idea of how to extend the behavior of an existing (OOB) button on the ribbon?

I need to extend the 'Cancel Approval' button so that it cancels both the approval workflow and a custom workflow. Is this possible?

Regards,
Martin

@ShaiPetel I have posted an example on how to disable and enable buttons based on a field value and permission.

Perhaps it can help you in the right direction?

Regards,
// Henrik

Hi chris This is a great post for the SP 2010 beg...

2010-10-27T12:58:12.692+01:00

Hi chris

This is a great post for the SP 2010 beginers to jump into the Ribbon implementaion.

1.I Implemented the ribbon control given in the sample.
2.everything working fine, but the problem came after adding the pageviewer webpart to the page.
After adding the webpart all the buttons in the tab are getting disabled, which were in the enable mode prev.

pls get me if you have any solution

Thanks
Eshhwar

Thank you so very much for your prompt answer! I c...

2010-10-16T16:54:29.057+01:00

Thank you so very much for your prompt answer! I can't believe how quickly you answered me! Thanks again! I'm digging in the SharePoint blogs like a maniac :) Lots of knowledge to digest but I'll get there one day :)

@BeginningSharePoint2010, Actually that's a g...

2010-10-16T13:07:28.733+01:00

@BeginningSharePoint2010,

Actually that's a great beginner's question, apologies that the article doesn't deal with it. The XML will be in a new XML file - cmdui.xml is an "out-of-the-box" SharePoint file and like most of these, should never be modified.

To get your custom XML file to be 'known' by SharePoint, you have to create something called a Feature - this has a feature.xml file which contains several several 'elements', such as the CustomAction shown here to modify the ribbon. You can create a Feature easily in Visual Studio 2010 by right-clicking on the Features item and selecting 'New Feature'.

As you can probably tell, creating Features requires an element of development skills and (unless you're crazy and do it in Notepad) use of Visual Studio.

Hopefully that helps you out with some links and terms to search on for additional reading. Feel free to ask more questions though.

Thanks,

Chris.