Removing menu items from SharePoint list

When removing menu items from a SharePoint action research will lead you to believe that you can create a new feature called HideCustomAction. However, this will only work for top level actions such as Site Actions.
So, what do you do when you need to remove a menu item from the list item.
On a SharePoint list the user can do things like Edit Items, Delete Items, Manage Permissions, Alert Me, etc. However, what if you don’t want something like the Edit Items link.

To do this you must modify javascript.
1. Locate the Core.js

2. Find the javascript method that creates the menu. You can do this by searching for the text, such as “Edit Item”. The first place you will find this text is in a variable such as “L_EditItem”. Then if you do a search on that variable you should find the method where the menu item is added. For example: Edit Item is added in AddSharedNamespaceMenuItems.

3. Lastly, modify the javascript to not show the menu item. For the Edit Item example:

function AddSharedNamespaceMenuItems(m, ctx)
{
   if(ctx.listTemplate != 105)
   {
       ….
   }
   AddManagePermsMenuItem(m, ctx, ctx.listName, currentItemID);
}

Now the Edit items wont show up for any list template number 105 (105 is the Contact List). If you want to do this for another type of list just find that list number in the feature of that list.

Note: I would not recommend changing the default Core.js to do this funcitonality. I would create a new custom javascript file and reference that from a custom master page file for the page. Thus, you can just use the custom master page for all pages that you want this functionality.

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