If you have a requirement to hide ribbon
buttons in MS CRM 2011 then this post is will help you. Sometime there some
system ribbon button which is not required by our client, so if we need to hide
them we have two below options:
- Modify Ribbon XML file manually.
- User Ribbon Editors addon available.
Let's say we need to hide “Save&New” button
from Lead entity.
In this post we are going to modify ribbon xml
manually and next post I will be using ribbon editor addon available. So let's
start our step by step process.
Step1: Generate Ribbon XML for you
entities.
You can use exportribbonxml project that comes
with MS CRM 2011 SDK under
“\sdk\samplecode\cs\client\ribbon\exportribbonxml” location. Open this
project and run it will ask your crm server name and organization detail and
will generate entity ribbons.
Step2: Open leadRibbon.xml in Visual
Studio or you any xml editor
Step3: Create new solution and add your
entity in that.
Step4: Export your solution and extract
it.
Step5: Open your customizations.xml
file in Visual Studio and search for “SaveAndNew”
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Step6: Copy it's id value, we need this
to use it in our location property.
Step7: Open customization.xml from your
extracted solution.
Step8: Search for RibbonDiffXml and do
changes like below
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We have used
HideCustomAction to hide our OOB button.
Step9: Zip your solution (selection all
field->right Click->Send To->Compressed (Ziped) folder.
Step10: Import your solution and
Publish Customization.
Now when you will open lead form you will find
“Save & New” button missing like below
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In Next post we will show how we can implement
this using ribbon Editor addon !!