Hide Save Form Button

BLOMASKY

I have a form with a Save Form button. There are times I display the form with everything PROTECTED (like, after an order has shipped), so everything is read only. There is no problem protecting all of the fields, but the button is still visible and the user can click it. How can I make this button go away?

Thanks
Bruce

BenHayat

BLOMASKY wrote
I have a form with a Save Form button. There are times I display the form with everything PROTECTED (like, after an order has shipped), so everything is read only. There is no problem protecting all of the fields, but the button is still visible and the user can click it. How can I make this button go away?

Thanks
Bruce

In your form operation section, you have two buttons by default (Save and close). You can remove the save button.

BLOMASKY

I don't want to remove the button, (cause, many times the user CAN and WILL edit the data, but after the order has shipped, I don't want that button (and really don't want to duplicate the form, having 2, one for editing and one for viewing.

johntalbott

Pretty much any of this kind of stuff can be done with a script.

aware_support

John is right - a script would easily remove any buttons in any forms or queries.

In this particular case you can also protect the entire object, not individual fields - if the entire object is protected the Save button should be removed.

And I think the VIEW operation, rather than Edit to bring up the form will have the same effect (not too sure about this one)

BLOMASKY

and, perhaps, you can share the script that would remove a button? pretty please???

aware_support

This "render" script should do it:

$("#" + parser.m_widgetInfo.wrapperId).find (".aw-form-buttons .k-primary.k-button").css ("display", "none");

BLOMASKY

Thanks for the reply, but its getting a tad off topic. I only want to "Conditionally" hide the save button. So can that be done in the advanced script section of the form?

Thanks
Bruce

aware_support

Yes, you can add conditions to this statement

BLOMASKY

What I don't know is how to access an attribute in the BO in scope. (in this case, I have an attribute called "status" and it's not displayed on the form, but if status = 'Complete' then I want to remove the button. Is there a tutorial (or some help somewhere) on how to access BO.attributes in the advanced script section. (I assume its not <<BO.attrName>> like we do everywhere else!)

Bruce

aware_support

First of all you MUST add this attribute to the form (doesn't matter where), but it should be hidden. To hide an attribute add the following to the script of the attribute:

markup.css ("display", "none");

Then to access it use this in the render script of the form:

var field = parser.getField ("AttributeName");

To get the current value:
var value = field.getValue ();

I think all of this is documented in the Programmers Reference Guide, but I cannot be sure.

So:
if (parser.getField ("status").getValue () == "Complete")
$("#" + parser.m_widgetInfo.wrapperId).find (".aw-form-buttons .k-primary.k-button").css ("display", "none");

johntalbott

I haven't tried this, but something along these lines should work ...

The Form parser has getField function that takes the AttributeName and FormSectionName as parameters and returns a field object. Then you can field value for your condition check.

Include the "status" field on the form. Hide it if you don't want it to be displayed.
Get the "status" field from the parser
Get the value of the "status" field
If the "status" field = "Complete", hide the Save button

Render Script

var field = parser.getField (“status”, “Main”);
var value = field.getValue ();

If (value == "Complete") {

 $("#" + parser.m_widgetInfo.wrapperId).find (".aw-form-buttons .k-primary.k-button").css ("display", "none");

}

johntalbott

Yeah ... what he said. :lol:

BLOMASKY

Thanks John!

Thanks AwareSupport!

I guess I have to re-read the programmers reference again. I hate asking questions that are answered in the documentation.

Back to reading....

Bruce