Vighnesh Bendre - MS technologies

In my last post I had mentioned about custom actions locations and IDs. In this post you will see how to add a custom action to Central Administration's Application Management. For this we need to add 'Module' to VS 2010 SharePoint project. You can delete the text file which gets created by default when you create module. Now in the Elements.xml file add the below xml code. This will add a custom action under Web Applications which is under Application Management. You can see 'People Editor Settings' menu under Application Management->Web Applications - Vighnesh Bendre

Following are the custom action Locations and IDs for SharePoint 2010. This list will help you in putting an application page or administration page in Central Administration (CA) or site settings. Location Custom Action Group ID Description Microsoft.SharePoint. Administration.Applications WebApplications Web Applications section under Application Management on Central Administration SiteCollections Site Collections section under Application Management on Central Administration Databases Databasessection under Application Management on Central Administration ServiceApplications ServiceApplications section under Application Management on Central Administration Microsoft.SharePoint. Administration.SystemSettings Servers Servers section under System Settings on Central Administration Email E-Mail and Text Messages (SMS) section under System Settings on Central Administration FarmManagement Farm Management section under System Settings on Central Administration Microsoft.SharePoint. Admin...