SharePoint Customization Tricks: Part II

Introduction

This multipart series of articles is intended to help you getting ramped up with SharePoint Customization. It's about modifying the default SharePoint user experience, list forms customization, branding, skinning SharePoint portals, etc. In Part 1, I introduced a generic function that can be used to hide the list view toolbar menu items (e.g. New Item, Upload, Edit in Grid view, etc). If you haven't read it yet, I would encourage you do to that first. Today I'll show you another two tricks for customizing the list form toolbar.

Trick #2 : Hiding List Form Toolbar Menu Items!


Sometimes, you need to remove some items from the toolbar that appears at the top of DispForm.aspx.

Unfortunately, the "HideCustomAction" feature can merely hide the items which have been rendered through the "Custom Action" feature framework such as Site Actions and Site setting so let's take the same approach we took in Part 1 which is delving back into the world of JavaScript which I really find very handy when it comes to SharePoint customization.

The following function can be used to hide any toolbar item in dispform.aspx. Just call the function passing the names of the items comma separated (e.g. New Items, Alert Me, etc.). The function removes the items and of course the images rendered beside them (if found). Trick #3 will deal with where and how you can add the function to your list form.

Kindly note that the function is case sensitive so take care of the case the toolbar item names are rendered.

hideFormMenuItems("New Item", "Alert Me");
function hideFormMenuItems() {
var titleToHide = "";
var anchorTag;
var allAnchorTags = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (var i = 0; i < hideFormMenuItems.arguments.length; i++) {
titleToHide = hideFormMenuItems.arguments[i];
if (titleToHide != 'Alert Me') {
for (var j = 0; j < allAnchorTags.length; j++) {
anchorTag = allAnchorTags[j];
if (anchorTag.title.indexOf(titleToHide) != -1) {
anchorTag.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.
parentNode.style.display = "none";
anchorTag.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.
parentNode.nextSibling.style.display = "none";
break;
}
}
}
else {
for (var k = 0; k < allAnchorTags.length; k++) {
anchorTag = allAnchorTags[k];
if (anchorTag.id.indexOf("SubscribeButton") != -1) {
anchorTag.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.
parentNode.style.display = "none";
break;
}
}