Disable 'Create new content' from 'Select the associated content' window

Question

I am using Sitecore 8.2 (initial release) and I have a case when for a rendering I have defined the fields

'Datasource Template'

and

'Datasource Location'

but I need to disable the button for

'Create new content'

that appears in the window displayed in editor when adding a component.

I can see that if no 'Datasource Template' is defined on the rendering the button is disabled by default, so this seems doable.

Is there an easy way to somehow disable it even if I have defined the template for the rendering?

Answer 1

You need to change: \Website\sitecore\shell\Applications\Dialogs\SelectRenderingDatasource\SelectRenderingDatasource.xml

He use Sitecore.Shell.Applications.Dialogs.SelectRenderingDatasource class.

You need to override method

 protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)

You need to have something like

 if (yourconditionaretrue)
  {
      this.DisableCreateOption();
  }

Answer 2

You can remove Create access right from certain group of users. This won't disable the button but nobody from this group will be able to create anything there.

Sitecore will display a message and disable the OK button as on the picture below.

Answer 3

To answer my own question here is the right solution (after doing some investigations on what Sitecore Climber wrote):

1. Create new class that inherits the

Sitecore.Buckets.Forms.SelectRenderingDatasourceForm

from dll

Sitecore.Buckets

this is the namespace found on tag CodeBeside in

\Website\sitecore\shell\Applications\Dialogs\SelectRenderingDatasource\SelectRenderingDatasource.xml

probably depending on your sitecore version you can have different namespace there so inherit whatever you have there set.

2. Override the OnLoad method with:

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) {

base.OnLoad(e);

if (NeedToDisable)
DisableCreateOption();

}

Now since DisableCreateOption is private we need to copy it to our code to be able to call it.

private void DisableCreateOption(){

this.CreateOption.Disabled = true;

this.CreateOption.Class = "option-disabled";

this.CreateOption.Click ="javascript:void(0);";

this.CreateIcon.Src = Images.GetThemedImageSource(this.CreateIcon.Src, ImageDimension.id32x32, true);

}

3. Do some logic in the NeedToDisable property that will return if the 'Create new content' buttons needs or not to be disabled.

public bool NeedToDisable{

return true; //replace this with your logic

}

4. Build and make sure your new changes are in the dll in website bin.

5. Go to \Website\sitecore\shell\Applications\Dialogs\SelectRenderingDatasource\ directory and open SelectRenderingDatasource.xml

6. Change the CodeBeside tag from old type 'Sitecore.Buckets.Forms.SelectRenderingDatasourceForm, Sitecore.Buckets' to your new created class in the dll.

7. Enjoy the new functionality.

Everything works great and as expected, except point 3, now I want to make the NeedToDisable property dynamic depending on an extra checkbox field I set on the rendering template and I will check or not.

My problem now is if there is a way to get a reference to the rendering fields when I am on this dialog. I think that maybe I need to override the previous dialog where you select the rendering type the new component will be but not sure where can I find this.

Any ideas?