Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

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Posted on by Jeroen J

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Hi dear reader,
I have this stubborn challenge that won’t leave me alone.

When I navigate to a custom entity, there’s an html5 url opening. Still, above this html5 page, I can see the standard buttons like “New activity”, “New record” and “Import data”.
I tried to alter those buttons using the Ribbon Workbench (eventually I want to add a new one, but just to be sure I’m on the right location), but for some reason I seem to be fidgetting in the wrong entity for no change that I publish can be seen after refreshing and opening the entity as described above.

Since the sitemap directly points to a html webresource, how should I find out which ribbon of which entity I should be altering (the entity field in the sitemap editor is empty)?

Thanks for thinking along with me.
Best regards,
Jeroen

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Jeroen J 415 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

Goutam, Abhishek,

Thanks a million for your quick/prompt responses. I was hoping that I could have done this codeless, but if this is the verdict, so be it :-)
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gdas 50,085 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

Yes you need to write enable rule based on some value in the webresource and return true otherwise false so that button only display for the webresource only.

Here is sample screenshot how to define enable rule -

// Assume that you have a control with id "somecontrolID" in your html webresource so you can write blow enable rule in your javascript webresource function SomeRule() { if (document.getElementsByTagName("somecontrolID") != null && document.getElementsByTagName("customersearchbutton") != undefined) { return true; } else { return false; } }

Once you ready with your web resource , open ribbon workbench with application ribbon solution and select the button --> select the command --> Add enable rule like below -

Do publish .
Jeroen J 415 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

Yes, I have. But still I'm "afraid" that it will show up in other locations since the application ribbon is entity indepentent (right?).

As Abhishek advices, I could hide it conditionally. But if there's an entity specific ribbon that I could use, it would serve my needs better.
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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

Did you add the button in the application ribbon?
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Abhishek Gupta 2,001 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

HI,

Follow this youtube video. It can help you to achieve that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_gnIQGLL0M&list=PLhgOm-Jpmt81tFK53ErsQm15y00m5p4R5

Thank you

Abhishek

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Jeroen J 415 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

Nothing fancy, just to add a new button that, if pressed, will show a new window with a specific view.

The trouble is that I can't figure out where to add this button.
Abhishek Gupta 2,001 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

HI Jeroen,

May i know. What are you basically trying to achieve?

Thanks
Jeroen J 415 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

It's defined in the properties of the SubArea in the sitemap:

not really sure which of your options is applicable.
gdas 50,085 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

How you are opening html page ? Is it inside crm form ? If it's inside form then you can change in the home area mentioned above Abhishek posted screenshot. Otherwise if it's application ribbon then you have to write enable rule so that it's display when your html is rendered.
Abhishek Gupta 2,001 on at

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RE: Which entity/ribbon should I alter?

HI Jeroen,

There are three layers when you open any entity in ribbon workbench. starting from bottom to top

1) entity specific layer

2) grid specific layer

3) home

In your case you have to work in bottom most layer.

Thank you

Abhishek

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