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The information in this topic applies only to System Center 2012 SP1.

A ribbon button can be configured to run a program. This type of add-in does not require any coding and is created by defining and configuring a ribbon entry. When a user clicks on the ribbon button the application will be run.

How to Run a Program from the Ribbon

This page is now retired and kept for archival purposes. This programming guide has been published on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/jj860311.aspx

The information in this topic applies only to System Center 2012 SP1.

A ribbon button can be configured to run a program. This type of add-in does not require any coding and is created by defining and configuring a ribbon entry. When a user clicks on the ribbon button t/a>To configure a ribbon button to run a program

  1. Inside the manifest’s root XML node, create a node named ActionAddIn.

  2. Add an attribute named Contexts to the action node and node and set the value to one or more context values. For more information about which context values can be used, see Manifests.

  3. Add an attribute named ActionType to the action node and set the value to Application.

  4. Add an attribute named ActionParam to the action node and set the value to the full file path of the file to run.

  5. Add an attribute named Name to the action node and give it a value.

  6. Optionally add the Icon and ShowInContextMenu attributes.

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