CustomActions not working with ToolbarType=None

Question

Hi, I created multiple Ribbon Custom Actions for a SharePoint 2013 Document Library. They are placed in the "New" group and everything works fine so far. One of these actions is a custom upload action and I want users to upload documents using
only this action. In the background there also is a EventListener that verifies that.
So that users are not confused I removed the default upload action by overriding it via another CustomAction. Of course I also want to remove the "New Item" link and the Drag&Drop zone. This would be done very easily by simply setting the ToolbarType
of the ListView/WebPart to None, BUT when I do so, the Ribbon renders as default! My custom actions do not appear anymore and the actually overriden actions are back again. This seems like a sick bug to me or is there any logic behind that?
Of course there are other options to hide the ToolBar, i.e. using JSLink, but this would not match my understanding of using JSLink. A custom XSL and overriding the toolbar template would be fine for me as well, but I have bad experiences with that. Even
when using a very simple XSL like the following one, makes the list not look and behave like a default view:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl msxsl ddwrt" xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime"
xmlns:asp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20" xmlns:__designer="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/designer" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:SharePoint="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" xmlns:ddwrt2="urn:frontpage:internal">
  <xsl:import href="/_layouts/15/xsl/main.xsl" />
</xsl:stylesheet>
Using this XSL I would expect the list to totally look and behave like a default view, but it doesn't. Under the import section I would like to add the overwrite template for the toolbar. What am I doing wrong here? Is importing the main.xsl the wrong starting
point?
Many thanks in advance!
Regards
MH

Answer 1

Hi,
According to your description, when setting the ToolbarType=None to hdie the “new document or drag files here” button, the custom actions in Ribbon disappear, you
want to display your custom actions as well as hide the Toolbar.
As a workaround, I would suggest you apply custom CSS style into the page to hide the Toolbar.
In my environment, the HTML source code of the Toolbar like this:
I hide it by applying such a CSS style in the page:
More information about hiding page elements using CSS:
https://kitt.hodsden.org/blog/2013/07/5_ways_hide_element_css
Best regards,
Patrick
Patrick Liang
TechNet Community Support