Hide action from list settings

Question

I want to hide/disable/remove the link Form settings from all lists in my site collection.
How do I go about this?

I think I can do this on a per site basis using HideCustomAction but I don't know what the Id and HideActionId of this is.

Answer 1

You can do that with HideCustomAction.

You can get GroupId and HideActionId from the action itself.

The custom action is as below (taken from C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\IPFSSiteFeatures\FormSettings.xml)

<CustomAction
    Id="IPFSSettingsListEditPage"
    RegistrationType="List"
    GroupId="GeneralSettings"
    Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.ListEdit"
    Sequence="230"
    Title="$Resources:ipfscore,FormSettingsTitle;"
    >
    <UrlAction Url="~site/_layouts/FormSettings.aspx?List={ListId}&amp;Source={Source}"/>
</CustomAction>

So your HideCustomAction should be:

<HideCustomAction
      GroupId = "GeneralSettings"
      HideActionId = "IPFSSettingsListEditPage"
      Id = "HideFormSettings" //or any other unique text as ID for this HideCustomAction
      Location = "Microsoft.SharePoint.ListEdit">
</HideCustomAction>