Hide disabled menu options in CCMS Desktop

When an action is not available in CCMS Desktop, you can hide it from menus rather than simply dimming it.

About this task

By default, menu options are dimmed when they are not available in the current context in CCMS Desktop. For example, if you select a topic at Authoring:done, the Lock menu option is dimmed because you cannot lock topics at done. If you prefer, you can hide unavailable options entirely to keep menus as compact as possible.

Important: Make configuration changes in a test environment and confirm they work before copying them to a production environment.

Procedure

  1. In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
  2. Locate the accessrights.xml file in the repository's /system/conf collection.
  3. Right-click accessrights.xml and click Check Out.
  4. Double-click the file to open it in the editor.
  5. Locate the <method> element for the menu option to disable and set its @hide-when-disabled attribute to true:
    For example, to hide the Lock menu option when it is disabled, set the @hide-when-disabled attribute as follows:
    <method name="Lock" type="front-end"  hide-when-disabled="true">
  6. Save, close, and check in the file.
  7. Inform users of the changes.
    The changes are automatically applied once users close and then reopen their IXIA CCMS Desktop. Users can also apply the changes without restarting their CCMS Desktop by clicking IXIA CCMS > Synchronize Configuration.