Hello,

I am trying to hide/unhide tabs based on Account Type. I was able to hide/unhide tabs from Account.aspx.cs using TabWorkspace, however, I'm not sure how to go about determining the current Account Type. On any given smartpart I would typically use: 

Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IAccount account = (Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IAccount)this.BindingSource.Current;

But in Account.aspx.cs, I get the error: this.BindingSource does not exist...

I have a feeling I know why this occurs but I'm not sure of a way to workaround. 

It is interesting that the AA Help file has instructions to do my specific task (I found it right after I had figured out the hide/unhide code), however, that code does not work.

Here is the help file code:

<h1>Hiding/Unhiding a Tab at Run-Time
You can hide and unhide a tab using code in a module. Take as an example  Sage.SalesLogix.Client.Account.Module which among other things, controls the  display of the AccountResellerOpportunities tab on the Account Detail page. If  the account type is not 'Partner', it hides the tab. If the account type is  'Partner', it unhides the tab. Note that the explicit unhide is required since  the tab state persists.

This was accomplished through code in the AccountModule.cs using the Hide  method of tabWorkspace to hide and unhide.

 public void Load()

{

     I Account account =  EntityFactory.GetById<IAccount>(EntityService.EntityID.ToString());

     if (account != null)

    {

        PageWorkItem workItem =  PageWorkItemLocator.GetPageWorkItem();

        TabWorkspace tabWorkspace =  workItem.Workspaces["TabControl"] as TabWorkspace;

         if (account.Type !=  Resource.ACCOUNT_TYPE_PARTNER)

         {

//   Hide

              tabWorkspace.Hide("AccountResellerOpportunities", true);

          }

          else

          {

//   Unhide

              tabWorkspace.Hide("AccountResellerOpportunities", false);

          }

     }

}

First, PageWorkItem and TabWorkspace need to have the full path to their assembly in front.

This is the code I used instead:

Sage.Platform.WebPortal.Workspaces.Tab.TabWorkspace workspace = this.PageWorkItem.Workspaces["TabControl"] as Sage.Platform.WebPortal.Workspaces.Tab.TabWorkspace;

So now I just need to find Account Type by using:

I Account account = EntityFactory.GetById<IAccount>(EntityService.EntityID.ToString());

Even when I fix it to:

Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IAccount accout = Sage.Platform.EntityFactory.GetById<Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IAccount>(EntityService.EntityID.ToString());

I get the error:

The name 'EntityService' does not exist in the current context

Any ideas?

Oh btw, I have 7.5.3. And sorry for the long horizontal scrolling

This is how to do it:

For example, I added this code to the OnLoad event of Account.aspx.cs:

<span style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: x-small;">
ClientEntityContextService service = base.PageWorkItem.Services.Get<ClientEntityContextService>(); 

string entityID = service.EntityContext.EntityID == null ? "" : service.EntityContext.EntityID.ToString(); 
if (entityID != "" )  

{

    IAccount acct = Sage.Platform.EntityFactory.GetById<IAccount >(entityID); 

}

else

{

    // List View was loaded

}

So much time wasted when all I needed was slxdeveloper.com and Raul. It worked perfect. Thanks Raul!

Small note: I needed to qualify IAccount...Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IAccount

On your need to qualify it, yes you would have to.

When I was playing with this I had added a using Statement to the Page.

Now, one thing I did not mention, but you probably are quite aware of is that Typicaly (unless you remove it), the Account.aspx.cs is created dynamically from the Account Detail Page Item on the App Architect, so you need to backup your changes and re-publish them after every Deploy from App Architect.

Thanks Raul, I did actually know that beforehand but forgot and found out again the hard way yesterday.