How to enable button – various ways.

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The most basic requirement in Siebel is adding a button on an applet and associating functionality to it. But when add a button in Siebel it is grayed out or in other words not enable by default you have to make it enable.

In this post I will write down the various ways that I know to enable a button.

While describing the steps I assume you have already added the button to applet by editing the web layout of that applet and the method name you have mentioned for that button is “MyMethod”

• Scripting at Applet PreCanInvoke method.

This is the most basic and the oldest way to enable a button. Steps to perform

1. Select the applet on which you have added the button
2. Right Click – Choose Edit Server Script Menu Option
3. In WebApplet_PreCanInvokeMethod add the following lines of code

if (MethodName == “MyMethod”)
{
    CanInvoke = “TRUE”;
    return (CancelOperation);
}The button on Applet should get enabled.

• Named Method Property

The second way to enable the button is using user property called Named Method n. Steps to enable the button.

1. Go to the underlying BC of that Applet
2. Choose Business Component User Property from object explorer
3. Create a New Record and Enter the following information

1. Name Field: Named Method 1
   (where the number will be one more than the last named method user property)
2. Value Field: “MyMethod”, “INVOKE”, “Quote Item”, “MyMethod”

• EventMethod

This is the latest and simplest of all methods to enable the button. You can read in detail in the following post about Event Method