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Customize when to show preview pane

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I'm trying to find the code that makes the decision whether to show a preview pane.  My company has them turned off in sysadmin->setup for performance reasons, but we'd like the ability to selectively turn certain ones on for specific users.

I'm also interested in where the code is for drawing a form.. where the controls are actually drawn.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at
    RE: Customize when to show preview pane

    I am afraid this is handled by the kernel and you have no granular control over factboxes. You can hide them from code on regular forms, but I have not found a solution after a quick search for ListPages unfrotunately. Maybe it could be done with some magic coding in SysSetupFormRun in case that is used to construct the factbox itself, but there is no guarantee it is possible.

    Your only option is to open a Microsoft Connect case if there is none already, and hope that the feature would be useful for others too to support it.

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    RE: Customize when to show preview pane

    Thanks for responding.  Unfortunately I'd done that (search for the field behind the setting) and it provided no useful information.  I can't believe I'm the only one who's wanted to do this, so hopefully somebody has made it work!

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    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at
    RE: Customize when to show preview pane

    The drawing itself happens in the kernel for forms. The only interfacing you have which is common for majority of the AX forms is in the SysSetupFormRun class, which gets called in the super() of a FormRun object's init, run, close, etc.

    As for the preview pane, you could try to check the field behind the setting which you have unticked with Cross-references, to find in what places is it being used which are accessible from the AOT.

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