Disabling a button in a form A when form B is open

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Hi Guys,

I have 2 forms, when I click form A the button should be disabled when form B shows up, Ill do this already, my question is where I can put a method to make the button disabled even form A is opened again in formlist.

is there a way on this?

thanks in advance

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Mea_ 60,286 on at

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Hi Kenneth Sy,

You can use global cache axforce.wordpress.com/.../how-to-store-an-object-state-using-global-cache to save a flag there that form B is opened and check this flag when you open form A to disable that button, then you need to clear flag when you close from B, so next time you open form A button will be enabled again.

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Douglas Noel 3,907 on at

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Hi,

should the button(s) on the 'second' (any further) FormA instances be reenabled if closing FormB (called from the first FormA)?

Or can they stay disabled?

Think you can use either an 'global' reference counter in infolog globalcache, increasing/decreasing the counter on opening/closing FormA (and disable the button always starting from the second FormA instance (even if the first hasn't open FormB)

or/and

use some kind of list or set of buttonreferences (to Button in FormA) - also infolog globalcache - filled/removed on opening/closing FormA and enable all the buttons on closing formB

Only some thoughts

regards Douglas

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Josh_ 126 on at

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Hello guys,

@ievgen - Will I create a method in Form A using the "Global Cache"?.

@Douglas - Yes, form A is reenabled when closing form B.

actually I dont know how to apply Global cache, just new to coding, can you shed me some light on how to implement it on a form?.

I gladly appreciate your answers, thank you.

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Jie G Microsoft Employee on at

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Maybe you can take a look at: msdn.microsoft.com/.../formrun.setactive.aspx

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