(CRM 4.0) Hiding Custom ISV Toolbar buttons and keeping them hidden when resizing window

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Hi,

This i another issue I've been having some troubles with.

I can hide the buttons no problem but when I resize the window they keep coming back. I tried and read several answers on it but none seems to work so far.

Here's the situation:

I have 2 custom buttons on the toolbar. They both have to be hidden based on conditions such as if a field has a certain value and I also managed to achieve that.

Like I said it's when resizing everything gets messed up with the page eventually going "berserk" and closing because of script handling.

I'm starting to feel this might me a CRM problem as even with a simple alert I maximize and minimize a form 2 times in a row and it starts throwing errors.

I'm hoping someone can elucidate me on this and possibly provide a piece of code that is proven to work.

Thanks a lot.

PS I am using CRM 4.0 not 2011

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I am suggesting a Javascript to hide unneeded ISV Buttons. It will go like this:

// hide ISV buttons that don't apply

function hideISVButton(buttonTitle) {

var comps = document.getElementsByTagName('li');

for (var i = 0; i < comps.length; i++) {

if (comps[i].title == buttonTitle)

{

comps[i].style.display = "none";

break;

}

}

}

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@Guido

I see, the problem I'm facing is exactly that. I can't remove the buttons cause they are indeed dependant on a field value.

One of the problems is I can't pass the buttonid as it's dynamic in CRM 4 so it will change evrytime the page gets loaded. I can only get away with the button title.

Summarizing what I have is a button that is to be used one time only. Before it has been used it's available and shown. Once you click on in one time, a field will get updated and it will never show for that record again.

So it's kind of a one time operation button. Once you did it you're not supposed to do it anymore.

Any clues/examples on how to attach a javascript function to the resize event?

@Muhammad

That's similar to what I have working at the moment and I can hide the buttons. The problem is when I resize the window they become visible again.

So that code won't do the full job.

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Then the solution is as suggested below:

In the OnLoad handle hiding the ISV buttons in a separate funtion and attach the onresize to the form.

attachEvent(“onresize”,HandleButtons);

function HandleButtons() {

// HandleButtons

switch (parseInt(crmForm.all.statuscode.DataValue)) {

case 3: // Received

HideIsvButton(new Array(“Assign to Investigator”, “Assign to Coordinator”, “Approve Complaint”, “Close Complaint”));

break;

case 6: // Register

…

}

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I think that something like form rendering is causing that.

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Here is another suggested code and a link to follow too:

This code should be placed in the onload of the form.

HideButton = function()

{

var ULListItems = document.getElementById(“mnuBar1″).rows[0].cells[0].getElementsByTagName(“UL”)[0].getElementsByTagName(“LI”);

for(var i=0; i -1)

{

ULListItems[i].style.display = “none”;

}

}

}

// Execute the function when loading the form

HideButton();

// Execute the function when the form is resized.

window.onresize = HideButton;

You can also refer to this link as it might also be helpful for you:

social.microsoft.com/.../3b9722d1-866d-4fcc-beff-162e53a93ac4

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The only snippet I got working is:

function HideButtons () {

// Hide the "Send E-mail" and "Follow Up" buttons...

var liElements = document.getElementsByTagName('li');

// Get the tooltip value for the button.

var buttonTitles = ['Send E-mail','Follow Up']

for (var j = 0; j < buttonTitles.length; j++) {

for (var i = 0; i < liElements.length; i++) {

if (liElements[i].getAttribute('title') == buttonTitles[j]) {

var elem = liElements[i];

elem.parentNode.removeChild(elem);

break;

} //if

} //for

} //for

}

All the rest I tried to no avail. Either it would throw JS errors on resizing or wouldn't simply work at all.

Thanks for the help.

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I have the same requirement too and the following works for me to hide the button.

button.style.visibility = 'hidden';

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And are you calling the button by title or by id?

Cause as I mentioned the Id is dynamic so I had to do it by title.

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