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How to Open a Web Browser from the Ribbon

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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 open a web browser and browse to a specific web page. This could be used to point users or your add-in to your company webpage, support forums, or your support information webpage. A “web browser add-in” does not require any coding and is created by defining and configuring a ribbon entry.

To configure a ribbon button to open a web browser

  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 URL.

  4. Add an attribute named ActionParam to the action node and set the value to the web URL.

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

  6. Optionally add the Icon and ShowInContextMenu attributes.

See Also

[[Simple Add-ins Overview]]

[[How to Define a Manifest]]

[[How to Run a Program from the Ribbon]]