In addition I would like my context menu to appear on the root element as well which it currently doesn't, only children of the root node

Ok, 1 of my 2 problems now sorted.

To only add my context menu item to the media tree nodes I simply needed to check that:

node.NodeType.ToLower() == "media"

The second issue is still unresolved and I am almost at a dead end with it. I need to add my context menu item to the root media node and can find no way to achieve this so if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate some pointers.

Thanks

Thanks very much Peter, that link was a huge help. I think I will write up a blog post about this as it has been quite a headache to get to this point. Here is my final override method in the meantime in case it helps someone else.

        protected override void CreateRootNodeActions(ref List<IAction> actions)
        {
            base.CreateAllowedActions(ref actions);
            //- Clone the base actions
            List<IAction> rootNodeActions = new List<IAction>(actions);

            //- Clear the list so we can inject our new menu item where we want it
            actions.Clear();

            //- Iterate through the base actions
            foreach (IAction action in rootNodeActions)
            {
                actions.Add(action);
                if (action.Alias.ToLower() == "sort")
                {
                    //- Add our new action in required location
                    actions.Add(SortAction.Instance);
                }
            } 

I can finally start putting the finishing touches to my package.

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