Add a same button in two entities

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Posted on by betlejuice

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Hi all!

I have created a button to one of my entities. All works fine. Now, i need to add this button to another entity. Whats the best practice to add one button to two entities? I'm using Ribbon Workbench.

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betlejuice 2,139 on at

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RE: Add a same button in two entities

Hello Andrew! Дякуємо for your answer! I will do that.
David Jennaway 14,063 on at

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RE: Add a same button in two entities

Internally, the RibbonXml (which contains the button definition) is stored per entity, so whatever you do you will have 2 separate copies of the button. You have 2 main options:

Create the button separately for each entity in Ribbon Workbench

Create a solution that contains both entities and export it as unmanaged, then:

Unzip the file

Open customizations.xml in a text editor

Copy the Xml under <RibbonDiffXml> from the entity with the button

Do a find and replace in the copied Xml to replace the entity name with that of the second entity (the key part is for Location attribute)

Paste the Xml under <RibbonDiffXml> for the 2nd entity

Zip up all files

Reimport the solution

Option 2 gets a bit more complicated if you have other custom buttons for either entity. Also, keep the original solution so that you can reimport it to undo changes if you make a mistake
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a33ik 84,325 Most Valuable Professional on at

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RE: Add a same button in two entities

Hello Oscar,

I believe the best way is to do exactly same steps when you configured your button in first entity.