How to add a menu button to a specific sharepoint list toolbar

When we want to add a custom button to a list toolbar we can add it by using a feature.But when we are activating the feature it will be apply to the scope secified, so all the lists present inside the scope will have a button added to it's toolbar. But if we want to add the button to a particular list then we need to specify the content type ID of the list.

To get the content type id of a list we need to follow these steps:

       1.   go to the list =>Settings=>List Settings=>Advance Settings=>click yes to the allow management content type
            =>ok=>Now in the list setting page you will see a content type click the content type =>In the url you will see a value like

                "ctype=0x010046759B602A72384BB7F4C50DEA9EE828"

This is the content type id for the list.

2. Now if you want to get it programatically then you can use this one:

oSPWeb.Lists["listname"].ContentTypes[0].Id.ToString();

Now we need to create the feature.xml file :

       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
          <Feature Id="{0af0c758-9ed9-43c8-aa2f-90a6fe879c9d}"
                Title="Custom Menu"
                Description="This example shows how you can implement custom menu."
                Version="1.0.0.0"
                Scope="Web"
                Hidden="FALSE"
              xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
               <ElementManifests>
                      <ElementManifest Location="Element.xml" />
               </ElementManifests>
          </Feature>

Here id is the feature id which is a GUID.

Scope is web, which means the feature will be available to all the subsites also

Hidden is false, which means the feature will be visible in the feature list for a site (Where you can activate the feature)

Next: Create the Element.xml file:

Here we need to add a custom action .

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<CustomAction RegistrationType="ContentType" RegistrationId="0x0100F310C1F224701541BF37AFD23D67FEAC"

              Sequence="1000" Location="ViewToolbar" Title="Test">
                    <UrlAction Url="/path to navigate"/>
              </CustomAction>
       </Elements>

Here the RegistrationId is the content type id of the list and Url is the path to navigate when the user clicks the button.

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Author: Premananda Das

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