How can we hide the "publish all" button from the work-box?

Question

Does Sitecore have out of the box option to hide the publish all button from the workbox?

The reason I want to do is, there are a few incidents of clicking publish all by mistake.

I want to keep the other three buttons:

1. Publish (selected)
2. Reject (selected)
3. Reject (all).

Answer 1

In short, you can't only hide the Publish (All) button. You would have to hide both the Publish (Selected) and Publish (All) buttons.

The Publish (Selected/All) button, is an action available when the item is in your Approved workflow state. The workbox screen will give you those 2 options (Selected/All) for each action you can take on the items.

To change that, you would have to customize the workbox, which as you have mentioned, is not a simple solution. I'd say, training would be easier than customization :)

Answer 2

Since I'm unable to find this option in Sitecore, I have been trying to customize it as described below:

• To hide the Publish (all) programmatically, we need to change the behavior of the private DisplayState() method of the Sitecore.Shell.Applications.Workbox.WorkboxForm class from the Sitecore.Client.dll assembly.
• In the method, there is a loop to add commands and it's (all) counterpart. After customizing that class, we can configure workbox to use it by going to the \Website\sitecore\shell\Applications\Workbox\Workbox.xml file and changing the following <CodeBeside Type="Sitecore.Shell.Applications.Workbox.WorkboxForm,Sitecore.Client"/>