In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, the Group action creates a menu group, also known as a submenu, for related actions.
The following attributes and elements are specific to an action that creates a group of context menu items:
- The <ActionDescription> element
Class attribute is set to Group.
- The <DisplayName> attribute is
the group name displayed in the context menu.
- The <GroupAsRegion> Boolean
attribute specifies whether or not to display this group as a
region on the ribbon bar.
- The <ActionGroups> element is a
list of actions (<ActionDescription> elements)
displayed in the context menu group.
Group Action XML
The following XML demonstrates a group of actions named New Group Name:
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<ActionDescription Class="Group" GroupAsRegion="true" DisplayName="New Group Name" MnemonicDisplayName="MnemonicNewGroupName" Description="NewGroupNameDescription"> <ShowOn> <string>DefaultContextualTab</string> <!-- RIBBON --> <string>ContextMenu</string> <!-- Context Menu --> </ShowOn> <ActionGroups> <ActionDescription Class="Executable" DisplayName="Test Action (execute)" MnemonicDisplayName="A test item" Description="A test item Description"> <ShowOn> <string>DefaultContextualTab</string> <!-- RIBBON --> <string>ContextMenu</string> <!-- Context Menu --> </ShowOn> <Executable> <FilePath>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=67307</FilePath> </Executable> </ActionDescription> <ActionDescription Class="Report" DisplayName="Test Action (report)" MnemonicDisplayName="Mnemonic" Description="Description"> <ShowOn> <string>DefaultContextualTab</string> <!-- RIBBON --> <string>ContextMenu</string> <!-- Context Menu --> </ShowOn> <ReportDescription Id="05874720-1D08-4CF7-B182-5F9D065BEAE5"> </ReportDescription> </ActionDescription> </ActionGroups> </ActionDescription> |