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Hide BPF Next button in Unified interface

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Posted on by Benjamin Fallar III

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I was able to hide using JScript the Next button in the Business Process stages in Classic UI.

Is there a way also to hide this in unified interface?

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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Hi,

There is no supported way to hide the button, not even in classic UI. If you do it with unsupported method, it may not work with the latest version when released.

Hope this helps.

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gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

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The workaround would be to make field mandatory , so that until and unless you fill the value in BPF you won't be able to move next stage.

Also could you please why you want to hide next button ?

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Benjamin Fallar III 245 on at

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Sorry, I was able to hide the button of the Next in the BPF using JScript in the Classic UI, but not in Unified interface.

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Benjamin Fallar III 245 on at

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I'm aware of making some fields mandatory.

We need it to hide because we have some validations using workflow to prohibit moving the stage from A to B.

These fields are available across multiple entities, so we use workflow to validate it.

The business users also does not want that Next button. That's why we need to hide/remove it.

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Kokulan 18,054 on at

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Hi

If you handing all in the workflow, one option would be to convert the workflow to Real Time and perform your validation and use the Stop Workflow step with Cancelled status and a custom error message. This should prevent the user from moving to the next stage and will also display an appropriate error message. The workflow will have to be on status change of the BPF.

If you do not prefer the above solution, please see below

The reason your Next button hiding works on Classic not on UCI is that the elements are completely different, UCI is a completely new and modern UI so you will have to update your javascript to find the Next button for UCI. Now if you want this hiding script to work on both UCI and Classic then your JS should cater for both scenarios.

If you want to go ahead with UnSupported approach for UCI, I don't see why you cannot check the DOM element and get to the DOM element and do a Display:None.

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Yazid 25 on at

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Hello Benjamin, I have a need to hide the next Stage Button, is it possible to share your solution with step by step instructions please?

Here is my email: yboureguaa@hotmail.com

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shaikh sharef 80 on at

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Hi Yazid,

I am also having this functionality to implement in my current project. Do you have solution on this? if yes please share it with me.

Regards,

Shaikh Sharef

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Yazid 25 on at

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Hi, I was able to lock the next stage button and kept the back stage and set active as is because I need my users to be able to restart the flow from an earlier Stage.

Here is my code that I can share with you, the user when he click on next Stage get a message that you can customize.

Please add this code on OnLoad in your form.

function form_onLoad(executionContext){
var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();
formContext.data.process.addOnPreStageChange(preStageChange);
formContext.data.process.addOnPreStageChange(AddStageChange);
}
function preStageChange(executionContext) {
var direction = executionContext.getEventArgs().getDirection();
if (direction == "Previous") {
// ***Xrm.Utility.alertDialog("This is an automatic Process, the Button is not allowed");
// ***executionContext.getEventArgs().preventDefault();
}
}
function AddStageChange(executionContext) {
var direction = executionContext.getEventArgs().getDirection();
if (direction == "Next") {
Xrm.Utility.alertDialog("Your customized messge.");
executionContext.getEventArgs().preventDefault();
}
}

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donalmc 125 on at

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Hi Yazid

Your code works great; however, it is all or nothing.

I've been trying to work out how to make it conditional (e.g., only run if something on the form is true/false).

It's a syntax issue that is escaping me!

Thanks

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