Customizing Ribbon in Sharepoint 2010 - Part -1

Sharepoint 2010 has come with a new Ribbon User Interface which is in line with the Microsoft other products like MS word and excel . In this post we will try to  understand the Customization of Ribbon interface and also its architecture.

So the architecture of the Ribbon control is like

Ribbon -> Tab -> Group-> controls within the group.

These controls can be enabled or disabled but there visibility cannot be changed, they will always be visible.

Custom controls cannot be used inside Ribbon. Only following controls are permitted inside it are         (1) button (2)  Checkbox (3)  Color Picker (4)  Combo Box (5) Dropdown (6)Textbox (7)Toggle Button(8) split button,(9)spinner(10) fly out anchor.

Earlier in MOSS 2007 custom tag was used in the element manifest file to add a new element in the Site Actions menu or ECB menu. Same CustomAction tag will be used to add controls in the Ribbon.


Continue reading Part -2