Greetings,

I have written several custom modules, that are part of one intranet application on the same page.  Most of the users will be allowed Update privilege. However, upon arriving, we want them to do *our* (custom) "Search" (a button in the 1st module) before we allow them to Add new (to avoid duplicate information).

So, although they have the privilege, I really want to control when an "Add" link is displayed (i.e. after they have hit our custom Search button).  How do I hide the default link? (i.e. __doPostBack('dnn$ctr123$dnnActionButton1$lnk4')   What might be some good approaches for this.

Thanks, in advance..    -Michael 

Assuming you don't want to develop your own control panel (which is the more elegant way to do this), you could just write a skin object that does whatever checking you need, and then does something like:

Ctype(Me.page.FindControl("IconBar.ascx_cmdAddTabIcon"), System.Web.WebControls.HyperLink).Style.Add("visibility", "hidden")

This is just an idea, I haven't actually tried it, and it's a pretty crude solution, but it might work for you.  Like I said, the elegant solution is just to write your own control panel and do the checking and disabling of the add button there.