Quick Tip: Custom Action Tokens in SharePoint 2010 Designer

SharePoint 2010 Designer allows you to create custom actions for the SharePoint ribbon or the item context menu.

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These custom actions can be used to start a workflow, navigate to a form, and navigate to a custom URL.

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For the last option you can make use of “Tokens”. These tokens enable you to create a variable URL’s.

The tokens that could be used are the following:

Examples

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~site/ = /demo/CustomAction/SubSite/
~sitecollection/ = /demo/CustomAction/
{ItemId} = 2
{ItemUrl} = /demo/ CustomAction /Lists/Custom/2_.000
{SiteUrl} = http://jtb-sp2010elst2/demo/CustomAction
{ListId} = {59e393f7-3fc3-4408-86f9-6819bbdf6886}
{RecurrenceId} = Not tested

More information about the RecurrenceId can be found here.