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How to hide/show a button on form for a certain role?

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Posted on by JCHI 334

Hi. Experts:

I know we can use menuitem as the  entry point to setup the privilege.

But how can I do the same thing to a button in the action pane of a form?

I found out there is a neededPermission property for every control on the form.

Can I use this property to make this button only been seen by some roles?

Or there is other ways to do it?

( BTW, I'm using AX 2012 CU7 )

It would be appreciated to anyone can shed some light. thanks!

Quatrani

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    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at
    RE: How to hide/show a button on form for a certain role?

    You either use the neededpermission, and the privilege's level of access will drive the visibility of the control:

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg881160.aspx

    Or you implement it in the init() method of the form to manually check curUserId() if they have a specific role using the security helper classes, then setting the enabled() property on your button yourself in code, once you have set AutoDeclaration=Yes on the button's properties.

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    JCHI 334 on at
    RE: How to hide/show a button on form for a certain role?

    Hi, Vilmos:

    thank you very much for the quick reply. I understand what you said about how to use the code.

    however, with neededPermission property. according the link., if I set it to manual and drag it under the read node of form's permission. then set the EffectiveAccess to read.

    If I am in a role with privilege having entrypoint's accessLevel set to READ, then I won't be able to see the button.

    I don't understand what's the occasion to use it, I mean if I set the EffectiveAccess to update , but the button control is still under read node. What is the meaning of it? Can this method can apply to different role?

    Thanks again !

    Quatrani

  • Jacqueline Olson Profile Picture
    Jacqueline Olson 635 on at
    RE: How to hide/show a button on form for a certain role?

    Hi Quatrain,

    Perhaps my example here will help - stoneridgesoftware.com/ax-2012-security-role-basics

    I set the Form control (All Cases) to read - so any roles that has Read access to that form can see that button.  I then did an override for that form/form control for the specific role I didn't want to access to that button.

    Hope this helps.

    Regards,

    Jackie Olson

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