g_form.disableAttachments(); doesn't work

[yundlu316]

Our team is working in New York and want to hide the Attachment button on a record producer if you don't have a certain role.  We have a catalog client script onLoad that has:

  g_form.disableAttachments();

if you do not have the "admin" role.  However, that does absolutely nothing.  We are developing in a scoped application and have read that disableAttachments only works in global.  Is this true?  We've recreated the catalog client script in global and it still does nothing.  Is this a bug or are we doing something wrong?

As a workaround, we're using this:

function onLoad() {
        var attachmentButton = top.document.getElementsByTagName("sp-attachment-button");
        //console.log(attachmentButton);
        attachmentButton[0].parentNode.hidden = true;
}

However, it's not 100% ideal because the footer that the button is in is still visible and when the page loads, you see the attachment button for a split second before it disappears.  Any thoughts or suggestions?

[Arvind Singh Ra]

Hi yundlu316,

Could you try an onLoad client script something like this:

if (g_user.hasRole('admin'))

return;

g_form.disableAttachments();

'OR'

You could also look at ACLs on the sys_attachment table, but that could be a bit more global thank you want for just catalog items.

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Regards,

Arvind

[scottl]

Any reason why this shouldn't be done via ACLs?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

Did you try adding alert in the onload client script?

It should work. I don't think it is disabled for scoped app

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Thanks
Ankur

[yundlu316]

hi yes, we added an alert and it fires correctly, but disableAttachment() does not hide the paperclip icon.  This is our onLoad code:

function onLoad() {
    //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below
    var roleCheckEmployee = g_user.hasRole('sn_hr_sp.hrsp_employee');
    var roleCheckAdmin = g_user.hasRole('admin');

if ((roleCheckEmployee == true) && (roleCheckAdmin == false)){
    g_form.disableAttachments();    
    //var attachmentButton=top.document.getElementsByTagName('sp-attachment-button');
    //attachmentButton[0].parentNode.hidden=true; 
  }
}