How do I remove items from the Site Actions menu in SharePoint?

Question

How can I customise the Site Actions menu to remove or rename 'standard' menu items? Where are the site actions menu items defined?

Answer 1

The site actions menu is defined in the Siteaction.xml in Template\layouts\editingMenu under the 12 hive. The following link shows how to manually remove items.

Customize Site Actions Menu

I have added options to the menu using features, but have never tried to hide OTB option in code. I would be interested in your results.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I have used a control that runs javascript to hide the entire site actions menu for users of a certain privelege level.

That approach may be an option if you need to remove items for particular users.

It is not the worlds classiest approach however.

Answer 3

I was able to hide the menu item I wanted to hide by using ConfigMenu="Delete" in the relevant XML node of SiteActions.xml. e.g.

 <ConsoleNode ConfigMenu="Delete" ChangedNodeID="wsaCreateSite" />

The valid values for ConfigMenu are documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.publishing.webcontrols.configmenuoptions.aspx

Answer 4

Hi Nat,

COuld you please paste your javascript code here? I also need to remove any items for user of certain privelege level, especially for contribute permission.

Where should I put the javascript code?

Thank you.