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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Overview of this book

SharePoint is an incredibly powerful platform that can support a wide variety of business scenarios. In many cases it needs to be configured or extended in order to deliver fully featured business solutions. While some books merely talk about the capabilities of SharePoint in general and leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, this book takes a different approach. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions along with screenshots to help build exciting SharePoint business solutions that extend the platform. By the end of this book the reader will be a SharePoint developer to be reckoned with. This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. This book draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platforms underlying services to provide solutions that can support Social Collaboration, Content and Document Management, as well as project collaboration. Each chapter represents a new business solution that builds on the overall platform to deliver more complex solutions and more advanced techniques. By the end of the book the reader will understand how to leverage the SharePoint platform to build their own business solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Defining the RequestSiteAction menu item


The request form will need to be easily accessible to all of the site users. One good way to do that is to add it to one of the standard action menus such as the SiteActions or PersonalActions menu. It will direct the user to the request form wherever they are in the system allowing them to submit the request.

To define a custom action:

  1. 1. Click on Add | New Item to the Visual Studio project.

  2. 2. Under the SharePoint | 2010 category, select the Empty Element type and provide a name such as RequestSiteAction.

  3. 3. Edit the Elements.xml file with the following content:

    <CustomAction Description="Submit a site collection
    request."GroupId="SiteActions"
    Id="RequestSiteAction"
    Location=
    "Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu"
    RequireSiteAdministrator="false" Sequence="1001"
    Title="Request Site Collection">
    <UrlAction
    Url="_layouts/SPBlueprintsSiteCreation/RequestSite.aspx" />
    </CustomAction>
    
  4. 4. When deployed the custom action will be displayed in...