SharePoint 2010 Menu IDs

 

Menus in 2010? Isn't there a ribbon now?

SharePoint 2010 has ribbons everywhere… except for the Picture libraries and Surveys. Those two lists seem to have been overlooked in the upgrade process. Also the Site Actions button and the Welcome button still display menus and use the same techniques as commonly documented for SharePoint 2007 to hide, show and manipulate these menus.

If you are writing client side JavaScript code to interact with the SharePoint menus you will need to know the IDs of the <ie:menuitem> tags. Below are several tables with some of the IDs used by menu items. Remember that in the SharePoint page these will include a prefix that might look like "zz22_" or “ct100_”.

If the ID you need is not listed in the tables below then view the source of your SharePoint page and search for the name of the menu item (“Edit Page”) or the text "ie:menuitem" until you find the one you need.

 

You would then find the menu item using JavaScript or jQuery routines such as the examples below. Add the code to a single page using a Content Editor Web Part or SharePoint Designer, or add the code to the master page to impact all pages in the site.

 

JavaScript:

<script type="text/javascript">
 var doc = document.getElementsByTagName('ie:menuitem'); 
 for (var i = 0; i < doc.length; i++)
  {
    itm = doc[i];
    if (itm.id.match('OpenInExplorer') != null)
      {
        itm.hidden=true;
        break; 
      }
  } 
</script>

 

jQuery:

$('ie\\:menuitem[id*=OpenInExplorer]').attr("hidden","true")

The is a list of items created in a typical Team Site home page (v4.master) for the Site Actions and Welcome menus:

Menu ID name	Menu	Menu text
ID_ersonalInformation	The Welcome menu	My Settings
ID_LoginAsDifferentUser	The Welcome menu	Sign in as Different User
ID_RequestAccess	The Welcome menu	Request Access
ID_Logout	The Welcome menu	Sign Out
MenuIItem_EditPage	Site Actions	Edit Page
MenuItem_TakeOffline	Site Actions	Sync to SharePoint Workspace
MenuItem_CreatePage	Site Actions	New Page
MenuItem_CreateDocLib	Site Actions	New Document Library
MenuItem_CreateSite	Site Actions	New Site
MenuItem_Create	Site Actions	More Options…
MenuItem_ViewAllSiteContents	Site Actions	View All Site Content
MenuItem_EditSite	Site Actions	Edit in SharePoint Designer
MenuItem_SitePermissions	Site Actions	Site Permissions
MenuItem_Settings	Site Actions	Site Settings

 

This is a list of menu items created by a picture library view page:

(all of the above table plus the following)

Menu ID name	Menu	Menu text
NewFolder	New	New Folder
_Upload (1)	Upload	Upload Document
MultipleUpload	Upload	Upload Multiple Pictures
EditPictures	Actions	Edit
DeletePictures	Actions	Delete
DownloadPictures	Actions	Download
SendPictures	Actions	Send To
ViewSlideShow	Actions	View Slide Show
OpenInExplorer	Actions	Open with Windows Explorer
OfflineButton	Actions	Connect to Outlook
TakeOfflineToClient	Actions	Sync To Computer
ViewRSS	Actions	View RSS Feed
SubscribeButton	Actions	Alert Me
AddColumn	Settings	Create Column
AddView	Settings	Create View
ListSettingsMenu_t	Settings	Settings
ModifyView	View	Modify this view
CreateView	View	Create view

(1) Prefix the keyword "Upload" with the underline to not confuse with "MultipleUpload"

 

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