Monday 17 December 2012

Enable/Disable ribbon button in CRM 2011 based on User security role using javascript


Add the following code into your webresources.

function UserHasRole(roleName) {

    var serverUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl();
    var oDataEndpointUrl = serverUrl + "/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/";
    oDataEndpointUrl += "RoleSet?$top=1&$filter=Name eq '" + roleName + "'";
    var service = GetRequestObject();
    if (service != null) {
        service.open("GET", oDataEndpointUrl, false);
        service.setRequestHeader("X-Requested-Width", "XMLHttpRequest");
        service.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json, text/javascript, */*");
        service.send(null);
        var requestResults = eval('(' + service.responseText + ')').d;
        if (requestResults != null && requestResults.results.length == 1) {
            var role = requestResults.results[0];
            var id = role.RoleId;
            var currentUserRoles = Xrm.Page.context.getUserRoles();
            for (var i = 0; i < currentUserRoles.length; i++) {
                var userRole = currentUserRoles[i];
                if (GuidsAreEqual(userRole, id)) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return false;
}

function GetRequestObject() {
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        return new window.XMLHttpRequest;
    }
    else {
        try {
            return new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0");
        }
        catch (ex) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}
function GuidsAreEqual(guid1, guid2) {
    var isEqual = false;
    if (guid1 == null || guid2 == null) {
        isEqual = false;
    }
    else {
        isEqual = guid1.replace(/[{}]/g, "").toLowerCase() == guid2.replace(/[{}]/g, "").toLowerCase();
    }

    return isEqual;
}

function callMain() {

    if (UserHasRole("Sales Manager")) {
        return true;
    }
    else {
        return false;
    }

}


  1. Open Visual Ribbon Editor tool.
  2. Select a Button which you want to Enable or Disable.
  3. Then select  a Enable Rules tab in the ribbon editor.
  4. Click Add-->Custom rule
  5. Give a webresource name in Library: here i gave $webresource:tvsi_userrole
  6. Then give a function name: callMain



1 comment: