In CRM 2011, the Form Assistant is enabled by default for the following entity forms:
- Case (incident)
- Product
- Service Activity (serviceappointment)
For those of you unfamiliar with the Form Assistant, it is designed to help you fill out lookup fields. It is actually pretty nice, but with CRM 2011 it may be a little overkill considering how nice the lookup fields already are.
Hiding via Form XML
The SDK lays out how to hide the Form Assistant by setting the “enablerelatedinformation” attribute to false.
To modify the Form XML, you will need to add the form to a solution and then export. Once you have unzipped the solution, you can modify the Form XML and re-import the solution.
Hiding via JavaScript
Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be a way to grab the Form Assistant via the Xrm object. Instead you will have to go old-school and use the document.getElementById. The code to disable the Form Assistant is:
document.getElementById('tdRelatedInformationPane').style.display = 'none';
Either way you go is fine. Personally, I prefer the JavaScript method since it is so easy to revert back. Anyhow, I hope this helps!
Post by: Paul Way,
