How do I stop users saving and printing PO's in the portal print preview.

[Former Member]

How can I stop users from being able to print preview a PO as a PDF in the portal then being able to save or print the PO before its authorised. Can the toolbar that has the print and save buttons be removed?

[OttoGold · Accepted solution]

I have never tried this. I don´t know if that is possible. So i thought you would like to have a workaround instead of nothing. And i ask myself if it is a good idea. If the process schema which needs this toolbar to be disabled is right. Maybe a user should not see the form at all. Good luck with the scripting research, Otto

[OttoGold]

Probably there is not a solution. Like in these threads (although that is not the same) : .

If your form were SFP based, there is NOPRINT option somewhere in the generation process if I remember well. Maybe there is something for WD, but you would have to call that explicitely. In Java WD (I have absolutely no knowledge of Java WD) you have to explicitely set the form to be interactive. Maybe this "set" method can be used for other right as well...?

But... the standard workaround is to use a watermark: Place a big "not approved yet" on your form which you hide only if the form is approved. With this watermark the user can print it, but cannot use reasonably.

Hope this helps, Otto

[OttoGold]

Hello, did you get your answer and solve the problem? If so, please close the thread and share your solution and experience with us so the other members of the community benefits from that too. Otto

[Former Member]

Otto, sorry but we haven't found an answer.

[chintan_virani]

Hiding the toolbar is definitely possible and just search on SCN and you should get your solution.

But a thing to note is that if you disable the toolbar from WD in your application it's going to disable it for all Adobe based applications and also the user can still press F8 and get the toolbar back.

As per my understanding it is not possible to disable just the print/save buttons of toolbar.

Chintan

[OttoGold]

I can recommend placing some text on the background, e.g. "PO not authorised". By default, the text is visible and will be seen or printed. If the PO is in the desired new state, you can use scripting to hide this text. I think that should suffice. Hope this helps, Otto

[Former Member]

Isn't there anyway of hiding the toolbar?

[NoJo]

you can hide the toolbar, wddomodiviewview --> get the handler of the adobe ui-element, method set_hide_toolbars

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norbert