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Extend viewdefs to change a value for a button

Artis Plocins

I am trying to disable a button in the Save button dropdown in a module's record view.

I would like to do that for just that single button without overriding the entire file, so I thought I would create and extension file for the record view and unset that array element.

Obviously if there are other extensions adding more buttons in this dropdown, I don't want to unset the wrong one, so I tried all kinds of foreach loops with if statements, array_walk_recursive(), array_map() and more foreach loops referencing the original array.

The only actual way I managed to do it is still this:

unset($viewdefs['Calls']['base']['view']['record']['buttons'][1]['buttons'][1]);

And if another button gets added at the top of the dropdown, this should theoretically remove the wrong button!

I cannot find anything in the documentation or examples of how this simple thing should be done besides copying the entire file. I believe that would make this simple change affect any other modules also trying to affect the same view.

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  • 0 in reply to André Lopes

    I see, that works. Thank you!

    But when I try to do the same for the create view in file custom/Extension/modules/Calls/Ext/clients/base/views/create/create.php this does not work:

    foreach ($viewdefs['Calls']['base']['view']['create']['buttons'] as $i => $button) {
      if ($button['name'] == 'save_dropdown') {
        foreach ($button['buttons'] as $j => $btn) {
          if ($btn['name'] == 'save_invite_button') {
            unset($viewdefs['Calls']['base']['view']['create']['buttons'][$i]['buttons'][$j]);
          }
        }
      }
    }

    But again, the direct unset() by numbered indexes like I showed above still works, so it is definitely possible. Why is this same method not working in this case?

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