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winstonwinston
winstonwinston

Reputation: 71

Cannot remove custom ribbon controls from quick access toolbar (QAT) menu

I have a custom add-in for Word (could also be for Excel).

The add-in has a ribbon with multiple groups and multiple controls (buttons) within them.

This is an ongoing project and some of the ribbon buttons are for users, and some are for testing/development purposes.

When I send the product to the client I only show certain buttons. I want the testing buttons to be completely invisible/inaccessible. I have tried setting the testing buttons/groups to visible = false.

This works, in the sense that the buttons do not appear on the ribbon, but if the user goes to Word's quick access toolbar > More Commands > Choose Commands from dropdown and selects my custom add-in...

Then the user can see all of my buttons. Even the ones with no label.

I have tried looping the controls in the ribbon load method and setting the testing controls to enabled = false, locked = true, generatemember = false, but none of these hide the buttons from the QAT menu. I also tried control.Dispose() - no joy.

Is there anyway to set the properties of a ribbon button such that it is completely invisible and inaccessible to the user in the QAT??

Upvotes: 6

Views: 958

Answers (2)

user2047029
user2047029

Reputation:

I would suggest you to create debug buttons dynamically. Define a constant variable like public constant string environment = "DEBUG"; and check it on start up

Upvotes: 1

FakeisMe
FakeisMe

Reputation: 464

Set the ApplicationMode.

Button CommandName='cmdExportMetadata' ApplicationModes='1'

Please see the below link too : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd940486(v=vs.85).aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee264330(v=vs.85).aspx

Upvotes: 2

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