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MarcoMangianteIM
Brass Contributor
Mar 02, 2022

Add custom action with add-pnpcustomaction

Hello,

I'm trying to hide the delete button in SharePoint Online list ribbon; I tried with custom action and powershell but I'm blocked (see SPO custom action to hide delete button - Microsoft Tech Community ).

 

With other research I find that, maybe, is possible to add a custom action with the powershell cmdlet add-pnpcustomaction of Pnp.PowerShell module; I have seen the syntax of the cmdlet but I don't understand some thing; I have a list, only a SPO list, where I want to apply the custom action: is it possible?

Say I have the mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/testsite where I have some lists, but I want to hide the delete button in the mytestlist: how to reference it in the command?

 

From some sample found online and also from the documentation sample I write something like this:

 

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/testsite" -Interactive
$cUIExtn = "<CommandUIExtension><CommandUIDefinitions><CommandUIDefinition Location=""Ribbon.ListItem.Manage.Delete"" /></CommandUIDefinition></CommandUIDefinitions></CommandUIExtension>"
Add-PnPCustomAction -Name 'HideDeleteButton' -Title 'HideDeleteButton' -Location 'CommandUI.Ribbon' -RegistrationType List -Sequence 10000 -RegistrationId 101 -CommandUIExtension $cUIExtn

 

But, my 2 questions are:

  1. is it correct
  2. how or where reference the list?

Any help is appreciated.

 

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Regards

 

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  • AAminM's avatar
    AAminM
    Brass Contributor
    Oct 19, 2022

    Hi MarcoMangianteIM,

     

    You can hide actions in command bar in modern experience using View formatting. More information about this can be found https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/view-formatting and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/view-commandbar-formatting.

     

    To hide the Delete button from the commandbar, the view formatting code should be as follows:

    {
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/tile-formatting.schema.json",
  "commandBarProps": {
    "commands": [
      {
        "key": "delete",
        "hide": true
      }
    ]
  }
}

     

    Note: this is hiding the delete button from command bar, but still will be shown in the file/item context menu. If needed to be removed completely, I would prefer then controlling this using permissions by creating a new https://sharepointmaven.com/how-to-create-a-custom-permission-level-in-sharepoint/, i.e., to allow users to create, and edit items, but not to delete items.

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