Add Menu Item To Actions Menu UrlAction

Question

I am attempting to call an .aspx page from a custom "Actions" menu item that I have added using xml. However, I cannot get the UrlAction path setup correctly. Everything I try fails with the following error:

"Unknown Error"

Here is my UrlAction:

"<UrlAction Url="javascript:window.location='{SiteUrl}/_layouts/Page.aspx'" />"

Does anyone have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

Answer 1

As far as I'm aware, you can't use JavaScript in CustomAction links. However, from your sample it appears you don't need JS - just use:

<UrlAction Url="{SiteUrl}/_layouts/Page.aspx" />

Answer 2

Are you getting the Unknown Error when you load the page where you want the custom action to be? Or is when you click through the custom action? If it is the latter, you probably have an error with your destination page. Here's a link to get more useful error information. Obvious disclaimer, you wouldn't want to enable this on a production machine.

Answer 3

try ~site token instead of {SiteUrl}

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms478271.aspx

Answer 4

For the sample in your question you don't need javascript, just use

<UrlAction Url="~site/_layouts/Page.aspx" />
// or
<UrlAction Url="~sitecollection/_layouts/Page.aspx" />

If you need javascript and maybe are trying to run more than one command you can do it like this

<UrlAction Url="javascript:function process(){var myUrl = SomeFunction();windows.location = 'http://' + myUrl;};process();"/>