Hello Guys, I have come up with an interesting article on enabling/disabling the out of box ribbon items in CRM 2011. This article demonstrates the order entity where I would be disabling the “Create invoice button” based on a condition in jscript. The script returns “false” or “true” value.

Before we get started, here’s the list of requirements with which you need to be familiar:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 / Notepad ++ (or XML editor)
• MS CRM SDK 2011
• Jscript

Walk-through

• Go to settings > customizations > solutions
• Click “new” add new solution
• Provide a valid name, publisher and your version number
• Save the solution
• Add the existing “Order” entity.
• Save & close the dialog
• Export the solution
• Unzip the archive and open the customization.xml file
• Search for “RibbonDiffXML” tag under the order entity
• Add the following code

• Save and close the file
• Zip all the three files Customization.xml, [Content_Types].xml and solution.xml
• Go to CRM application
• Go to settings > customizations > customize the system > web resources
• Click to add “new” web resource, provide a name “new_CustomRule.js”
• Add the following code

function HideExisting()
{
return false;
}

• Import the customizations
• Publish the customizations
• You can see the changes reflected

You can download the solution below.

Additional Information:

• System Id of the ribbon: SDKresourcesexportedribbonxmlsalesorderribbon.xml
• Define Ribbon Enable Rules http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334682.aspx

Cheers,
Apurv