Hi, I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I want to know how much work it is to get a Sharepoint developer to add a link to the callout above, e.g. at the top level near OPEN SHARE, or in the sub menu would also be fine. The link would open the selected document in our application which can open TIFF / PDF and other image files. The link could say "Edit this document in MyApp", or "View this document in MyApp" as examples. We would need to provide this in a modular way, so that customers could optionally deploy it to their own sharepoint site. A possibility, if the customization is not a big job would be to write a document with details on how to customize the Sharepoint site to achieve this. I'm not sure if Sharepoint has a more intuitive way of sharing this type of customization, e.g. as an App package.

Any idea how much work is involved approximately in developer hours?

And is there any terminology I could have described better above?

My apologies, I don't have any experience with Sharepoint but we have a requirement to integrate our software with it.

This link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn135236.aspx has some good info, which I think is in the right direction. But for myself with no Sharepoint experience is a bit above my head.

Any advice is appreciated. Depending how much work it is I may post this up as a freelance job. (basically need to get approval for a budget, and ensure the scope is defined etc.)

Hi,

Here you go. This link should help you

http://www.eliostruyf.com/adding-a-custom-action-to-a-callout-in-sharepoint-2013/

Thank you for posting the link. I was aware of that information and the other top google hits on the topic, the problem I have is that these articles don't provide enough detail for a complete Sharepoint novice to follow.

e.g. in the linked article, do I need to develop a sharepoint App to make use of the code suggestions?

The articles lack the information on where to start, and are focusing only the exact implementation details. Rather than also showing what tools are needed, which files need to be edited, and how to integrate the changes into a sharepoint site.

I don't understand whether an App is required to develop such a custom UI action, or whether something like Sharepoint designer can be used to make customizations to an existing site.

Hi,

If you want to add the custom action in sub menu, we can use SharePoint designer to achieve it.

Open SharePoint designer -> Find Lists and Libraries -> Documents

More information:

http://sharepoint-community.net/profiles/blogs/sharepoint-designer-custom-actions

If you want to achieve the requirement of "The link would open the selected document in our application which can open TIFF / PDF and other image files". I suggest you use some jQuery plugin to achieve it.

7 Best jQuery & JavaScript PDF Viewer plugin with examples

http://www.jqueryrain.com/2012/09/best-jquery-pdf-viewer-plugin-examples/

Best Regards,

Dennis Guo