Creating MenuItem in the site Actions menu and adding Security

The application pages and supporting menu items in the Site Actions menu shown so far have been created in a manner so that they are accessible to all users of a site. However, that isn't always desirable. Application pages are often designed to provide information and functionality that should only be accessible to site administrators. The same shows to create a menu item in the Site Actions menu.

This can be installed to sharePoint as a feature as mentioned in the XML below. You can add an attribute named RequireSiteAdministrator and assign it a value of true so that the menu item only displays to those users who are also site administrators.


< CustomAction Id="SiteActionsToolbar" GroupId="SiteActions" Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu" Sequence="1003" Title="Application Page 3" Description="Check out some typical site properties" RequireSiteAdministrator="True" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/DECISION.GIF">
< UrlAction url="~site/_layouts/CustomApplicationPages/ApplicationPage3.aspx">
< /CustomAction>


After Installing the feature, the SharePoint site looks like