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Enable/Disable ribbon Button

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Posted on by shivaram

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Hi all,

I got one new question.

Is there any way to Enable/Disable ribbon button?

When I added Enable rule, its behaving Show/Hide. But in my requirement, button should show and based on certain condition it should Enable, or else it should be disable. Enable rule is dealing with Show/Hide.

Any suggestions for Enable/Disable button?

Thanks in advance.

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Meena Kannan 232 on at

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RE: Enable/Disable ribbon Button

Hi Shivaram,

We can't enable/disable ribbon buttons in supported way. We can do this in unsupported way through javascript.

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ScottDurow 21 on at

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RE: Enable/Disable ribbon Button

Indeed there is no way not disable command bar buttons- and please do not use an unsupported technique since this will not work on the new client interface.

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Rajkumar Rajaraman on at

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RE: Enable/Disable ribbon Button

Not possible, It's an unsupported way

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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RE: Enable/Disable ribbon Button

Whatever you see is by design, this was introduced with command bars, Command bars only render enabled buttons, so if your button is disabled it will be hidden. so better to educate your end users to expect hidden button instead of disable button.

Hope it will help.

Thanks

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EmployeeOcta 6 on at

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RE: Enable/Disable ribbon Button

You can write custom rule using JavaScript to show and hide the button.

also ones it's get enabled then also you will need functionality to run on clicking of this button. you can customize that command to work on click on that function.

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Tushar2016CRM 1,130 on at

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RE: Enable/Disable ribbon Button

Instead of showing it as disabled you can handle the functionality through java script so that appropriate message is displayed to the user on click of the button.

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Aric Levin - MVP 30,190 Moderator on at

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RE: Enable/Disable ribbon Button

You can create an Enable Rule based on a Custom Action (JavaScript), which will trigger the function when the command bar loads, and check the return value of your function to specify whether the button will be enabled/disabled.

Enabled/Disabled buttons are either visible or hidden in CRM 2013 and after.

Use Ribbon Workbench (by Scott Durow) to created your Enable Rule for the button.

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