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Hiding and Changing Left Navigation Items in CRM 4.0 Entity Screens

First off, I want to give a big thank you to Jeremy Winchell for writing up the post that got me started in the right direction for this solution.

For those of you that customize Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, like I do, then likely one of the things you repeatedly run into is clients and users that need to have better names for their actions.  Changing these names on the main navigation page relatively simple, but what about on all the other pages, like Contacts, Accounts, etc.?  These, for whatever reason Microsoft had, aren't removable or changeable.  It's a really painful oversight to have to tell a client that even though you have renamed "Products" to "Hardware", they're going to have to remember that it's still going to be "Products" in a few places.  Hopefully the next version of CRM will have the capability to alter and remove these natively, but until then, we'll have to roll our own.

 Warning, the following actions are not supported or even documented by Microsoft.  Use at your own risk.

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way, let's take a look at the meat of the solution.  First, go to the customization area of the Entity you want to change, and open its form view.  In there, click Form Properties and enable JavaScript for the OnLoad action.  The link above has pictures if you're not sure how to get there.

Now you will need the JavaScript:
document.getElementById("%variableName%").style.display = "none"

So in this line, %variableName% is the variable related to the button on the left-hand nav.  “none” will hide this element entirely.  (Also, make sure if you copy and paste that you don’t end up with retarded Word-style quotes.  That happened to me and I spent 10 minutes trying to find a typo in my code)

If you want to change the display name of a button, then you have a bit more work to do.

Again, the JavaScript:
document.getElementById("%variableName%").innerHTML= "<img src=\"%imageLocation%\" /> %displayName%";

Here, you will see that we’re using innerHTML to actually change the content of that button.  Now you don’t have to have the image code in here, but if you leave it out, then your link won’t have an image anymore, and will just be text.  If you want to keep the image, the best thing I have found is to use the IE Dev Toolbar and then look at that button’s properties (to get the IE Dev toolbar on a popup screen, hit Ctrl+N).  You will see the link to the default image there.  This is going to be different for every CRM install, so I have not included it on the table below. Then just change the Display Name with whatever you want the button to actually say, and you’re set!  Note that the quotes around the image location have to be escaped.

Below is a list of the links, their variable names, and their default Title.  From there, making changes to the left nav of any entity in CRM should be simple.   You will see repeats of some.  The reason for that is because MS was not 100% internally consistent in its naming scheme.  For example, Cases is IDed by both navService and navCases, depending on where you are.  For those, I would either try both, or check on the screen itself.

Link

Link ID Name

Default Title

Activities

navActivities

View Activities

Campaign Activities

navCampaignActivities

View Campaign Activities

Campaign Responses

navCampaignResponses

View Campaign Responses

Campaigns

navCampaignsInSFA

View Campaigns

Campaigns

navCampaignsInList

View Campaigns

Cases

navService

View Cases

Cases

navCases

View Cases

Competitors

navComp

View Competitors

Competitors

navComps

View Competitors

Contacts

navContacts

View Contacts

Contacts Excluded

navBulkOperationFailures

View Contacts Excluded

Contacts Selected

navTargetedMembers

View Contacts Selected

Contract Lines

navContractLines

View Contract Lines

Contracts

navContracts

View Contracts

Documents

navDoc

View Documents

E-mail Messages Created

navBulkOperationSuccesses

View E-mail Messages Created

Existing Products

navExistingProducts

View Existing Products

History

navActivityHistory

View History

Information

navInfo

View general information about this record

Invoices

navInvoices

View Invoices

Marketing List Members

navListMember

View Marketing List Members

Marketing Lists

navListsInSFA

View Marketing Lists

More Addresses

navAddresses

More Addresses

Opportunities

navOpps

View Opportunities

Orders

navOrders

View Orders

Other Contacts

navContacts

View Other Contacts

Planning Tasks

navTasks

View Planning Tasks

Price List Items

navPrices

View Price List Items

Products

navProducts

View Products

Quick Campaigns

navMiniCampaignsForList

View QuickCampaigns

Quotes

navQuotes

View Quotes

Related Campaigns

navCampaigns

View Related Campaigns

Relationships

navRelationships

View Relationships

Sales Literature

navCollaterals

View Sales Literature

Sales Literature

navSalesLit

View Sales Literature

Sub-Accounts

navSubAct

View Sub-Accounts

Sub-Contacts

navSubContacts

View Sub-Contacts

Substitutes

navSubs

View Substitutes

Target Marketing Lists

navTargetLists

View Target Marketing Lists

Target Products

navTargetProducts

View Target Products

Workflows

navAsyncOperations

View Workflows

Write-In Products

navWriteInProducts

View Write-In Products

 

So now you should have all the tools you need to customize the Entity Screens into something useful for your clients and users.  And don't forget, if you break something, you can always just delete the JavaScript and start over.


Posted by Wayne Walton on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:30 PM
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