Extend viewdefs to change a value for a button

Hi Artis Plocins 

I believe this article is useful.

Good luck!

Hi, thanks but I've seen that page already and it only explains how to add something in viewdefs, not remove an element from it or change a single property of an element like a button type. Is there really no way to do that other than fully overriding the entire record.php file?

You may remove elements as well. You just have to walk through all buttons in order to make sure you will remove the correct one. Inside this walkthrough you need to look for a specific button attribute in order to identify the target one.

We had done that previously without big deal.

Good luck!

Can you please check and see why this bit of code does not do anything like I think it should?

This is the first thing I tried, and I tried again and it still doesn't work.

In the file custom/Extension/modules/Calls/Ext/clients/base/views/record/record.php

<?php

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

After rebuilding and clearing the cache, the button is still there:

Although this should also work, in theory, but doesn't:

function remove_button(&$item) {
    if ($item['name'] == 'save_invite_button') {
        unset($item);
    }
}

array_walk_recursive($viewdefs['Calls']['base']['view']['record']['buttons'], 'remove_button');

Your code must be something like that:

<?php

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

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?

Can you kindly share the content of your custom/modules/Call/clients/base/views/create/create.php?

Hi, as in the post above:

<?php

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]);
      }
    }
  }
}

Can you see why the same kind of code for record view doesn't work for create view?

Hi Artis Plocins 

I had asked for the viewdefs for Calls/create, not the extended customization for its.

Regards