HiDoes anyone know if it's possible to change the New menu choices via code (CSOM or PnP Provisioning)? We have custom content types but would like to hide the names of these and instead have word, excel etc.. ThanksAndy

For anyone else looking I managed to find it. In CSOM there's a property "NewDocumentTemplate" which takes a JSON structure. view.NewDocumentTemplates = itemtoset;view.Update();await ctx.ExecuteQueryAsync(); See https://petkir.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/change-new-menu-in-sharepoint-online-programmatically/ The same can be set via PNP Provisioning by setting NewDocumentTemplates as part of the default view definition. CheersAndy

Document Library "New" menu changes via code

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Andy Jones
Copper Contributor
Mar 18, 2019
For anyone else looking I managed to find it. In CSOM there's a property "NewDocumentTemplate" which takes a JSON structure.

view.NewDocumentTemplates = itemtoset;
view.Update();
await ctx.ExecuteQueryAsync();

See https://petkir.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/change-new-menu-in-sharepoint-online-programmatically/

The same can be set via PNP Provisioning by setting NewDocumentTemplates as part of the default view definition.

Cheers
Andy

FedericoPorceddu82

MVP

Mar 16, 2019

Hi Andy Jones

if you need to hide / decide content type order inside new item action, you need to set this property

spList.RootFolder.UniqueContentTypeOrder

You can follow this approach

List contentTypeNameToHideOnNewButton = new List(); 
//add in list contentTypeNameToHideOnNewButton all ct you want to hide
string ctDefault = "ct default name"
//cut, client context, etc..
clientContext.Load(spList.RootFolder, x => x.ContentTypeOrder);
clientContext.ExecuteQueryRetry();
IList ctoFolder = spList.RootFolder.ContentTypeOrder;
foreach (var item in contentTypeNameToHideOnNewButton)
{

    ContentType contentTypeToHide = spList.GetContentTypeByName(item);
    if (contentTypeToHide != null)
    {

        ContentTypeId idCT = contentTypeToHide.Id;
        int indexCT = ctoFolder.IndexOf(ctoFolder.Where(x => x.StringValue == idCT.StringValue).FirstOrDefault());
        if (indexCT > -1)
        {
            ctoFolder.RemoveAt(indexCT);
        }
    }
}

spList.RootFolder.UniqueContentTypeOrder = ctoFolder;
spList.RootFolder.Update();
spList.Update();

clientContext.Load(spList.RootFolder);
clientContext.ExecuteQueryRetry();

Cheers, Federico

Anonymous
Mar 16, 2019
Not with CSOM or PNP to my knowledge. But it might be achievable using an Application Customiser and some CSS to do it.

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