os:activityAction element

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2017-08-15

Specifies the Accelerator functionality based on a datatype, such as selection or document.

Usage

<os:activityAction
  context = "sContext">
  child elements
</os:activityAction>

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
context	sContext	Yes	The context in which the activity menu item is visible. One of the following values: selection Default. A selected region was clicked. document The document was clicked. link An anchor tag was clicked.

context

sContext

Yes

The context in which the activity menu item is visible. One of the following values:

selection

Default. A selected region was clicked.

document

The document was clicked.

link

An anchor tag was clicked.

Child elements

Element
os:execute
os:preview

Child element sequence

os:executeos:preview

Parent elements

Element
os:activity

Examples

The following Accelerator XML allows the user to quickly send document details to a blogging service. It uses a separate os:activityAction element for each of the defined contexts.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
<os:openServiceDescription
    xmlns="https://www.microsoft.com/schemas/openservicedescription/1.0">
  <os:homepageUrl>http://example.com/</homepageUrl> 
  <os:display>
    <os:name>Blog with MyBlogs</name> 
    <os:icon>http://example.com/favicon.ico</icon>
  </os:display>
  <os:activity category="blog">
    <os:activityAction context="selection">
      <os:execute method="get" action="http://www.example.com/BlogIt.aspx">
        <os:parameter name="title" value="{documentTitle}" /> 
        <os:parameter name="SourceURL" value="{documentUrl}" /> 
        <os:parameter name="description" value="{selection}" type="html" /> 
      </os:execute>
    </os:activityAction>
    <os:activityAction context="document">
      <os:execute method="get" action="http://www.example.com/BlogIt.aspx">
        <os:parameter name="title" value="{documentTitle}" /> 
        <os:parameter name="SourceURL" value="{documentUrl}" />
      </os:execute>
    </os:activityAction>
    <os:activityAction context="link">
      <os:execute method="get" action="http://www.example.com/BlogIt.aspx">
        <os:parameter name="title" value="{linkTitle}" /> 
        <os:parameter name="SourceURL" value="{link}" />
      </os:execute>
    </os:activityAction>
  </os:activity>
</os:openServiceDescription>

Element information

Minimum supported system	Windows XP with SP2
Can be empty	No

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