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    Hide Search Submit button until criteria met

    Thought I'd found a workaround for this but just discovered I haven't.

    A grid has a Search Part, and the Search Part property "Hide Grid when no search active" is checked. Great.

    Now I need to hide the Search Part Submit button until particular search criteria are selected. This isn't an option in the Search Part properties, there's no way to customize the Search Part toolbar like the Grid or Detail Views toolbars, and the Search Part submit button has no HTML button id to reference. I successfully created what I thought was a workaround to this, creating an HTML button in a Search Part freeform region with onclick="{grid.Object}.submitSearchForm();" and style="visibility:hidden". I then used Javascript to get the id of the button and make it visible when certain search fields had criteria in them. Frankly, pretty proud of myself.

    But as you can see in the attached image, if I make the button visible and then switch to another tab, it shows up in the other tab as well. It seems this is the case unless the Tabbed UI opens an a5w page with a component on it (as opposed to the Tabbed UI opening a grid directly on a "virtual page").

    This is a function I need in lots of grids and I can't lose the functionality of opening grids directly from buttons in my application, so I've got to get something workable and universally functional.

    All ideas are welcomed... Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Hide Search Submit button until criteria met

    I don't think I'd go to that much work. Since you're already going after the the button you created to hide it, how about going after the actual Search button and hiding that.

    In the Grid Search part, change the "Search button label" to

    Code:
    <div id="grdSearch">Search Here</div>
    Then, in the Grid, Javascript System Events, OnSearchRender enter

    Code:
    $('grdSearch').style.display="none";
    When you've satisfied your search criteria, you can bring back the button with

    Code:
    $('grdSearch').style.display='block';
    There is a little problem I haven't found an answer to yet, however. A tiny border is left behind - most likely set by the CSS Class. Still looking at that.

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      Re: Hide Search Submit button until criteria met

      Thanks so much David. I think I saw another one of your posts recently that should've helped me solve this to begin with.

      In the CSS, I changed the border of buttons to a light color that blends in with the toolbar but still shows a line between buttons next each other. You can still see it if you look hard, but no one would notice it.

      Still frustrating that if the button itself just had an id or the toolbar was customizable, it wouldn't be all that hard to show/hide the whole thing. Oh well...

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        Re: Hide Search Submit button until criteria met

        You can give the button an Id, but it's not the button that's a problem (I think). There's something else that the button is sitting on. I changed the border of the button to "dotted", as attached, which shows there's something else there. I've had a look at the CSS but can't see it. If anyone knows what else is around the button, please chime in.

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