KB310749: How to Remove a Toolbar Sub-Menu Item in Visual Insight Dashboards Using the MicroStrategy Web SDK 10.5

Before Customization:

 
After Customization:

The following steps will remove a toolbar sub-menu item in Strategy Visual Insight Dashboards using the SDK 10.5:

• Launch the Web Customization Editor.
• Create a new plug-in and give it a meaningful name. For example: RemoveVISubMenuItem.
• Click on Strategy Web Configuration inside the Application Settings view to expand the hierarchical tree. The expanded list comprises the different settings that can be modified to perform customizations.
• Click on Pages to expand the list of pages used in Strategy Web.
• Right-click the Html5Vi (HTML5 VI Page) page and select Toolbars->Edit Toolbars. This launches the Edit Toolbars Wizard.
• Check the box for toolbar MojoToolbarModel.
• Click Next.
• Clear the box for one of the items.
  

• Click Next.
• Click Finish.
• Save your change and exit the WCE.
• Navigate to \WEB-INF\xml\blocks\mojo\ in the Strategy web directory and open the MojoToolbarModel.xml.
• Copy the main nodes of the parent block of the sub-menu item that needs to be removed.  In this example, the External Data... sub-menu item will be removed.  addDS is the parent node of External Data...  Copy the following nodes of the addDS block:
  

  
  <block listElementKey="K4" name="MojoToolbarButtonModel">
       <list>
            <property name="items">
            </property>
       </list>
  </block>

  
  
• Also, make note of the listElementKey value of the toolbar sub-menu item to be removed.  In this example, the listElementKey for External Data... is K41 in the MojoToolbarModel.xml.
• Navigate to the plugin to open ..\plugins\RemoveVISubMenuItem\WEB-INF\xml\blocks\mojo\MojoToolbarModel.xml.
• Modify the MojoToolbarModel.xml and paste the block copied in step 13.
  

  
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
  <!DOCTYPE block SYSTEM "blockLibrary.dtd">
  <block name="MojoToolbarModel">
    <assignments>
      <property name="items">
        <list>
  	  <block listElementKey="K4" name="MojoToolbarButtonModel">
  	  	<property name="items">
  			<list>
  				<block listAction="delete" listElementKey="K41" listItem="K41" name="MojoToolbarButtonModel"/>
  			</list>
  		</property>
  	  </block>
        </list>
      </property>
    </assignments>
  </block>

  
  
• Save the changes to this file.
• Restart Strategy Web.
• Launch Strategy Web to view the customization.

 
The example provided in this document is provided “as-is” and user has read the following customization warning:
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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This customization is provided as a convenience to Strategy users and is only directly applicable to the version stated. While this code may apply to other releases directly, Strategy Technical Support makes no guarantees that the code provided will apply to any future or previous builds. In the event of a code change in future builds, Strategy Technical Support makes no guarantee that an updated version of this particular customization will be provided. In the event of a code change in future builds, Strategy may not be able to provide additional code on this matter even though this customization is provided at this time for this specific build. For enhancements to this customization or to incorporate similar functionality into other versions, contact your Account Executive to inquire about Strategy Consulting assistance.