For some reason, the word testicals is NOT in the Microsoft Word 2003 dictionary.
But the word vagina is.
Go figure.
I got burned ( or actually slightly toasted ) by popup blockers that were keeping CRM from functioning properly.
I encountered it on one of my test boxes after installing the Google toolbar and at a new customer after installing Trend Micro's solution.
At last count the following vendors and technologies had some form of pop-up blocker:
- Internet Explorer ( SP2 )
- MSN Toolbar
- Google Toolbar
- Yahoo Toolbar
- Trend Micro anti-everything
- Symantec anti-everything
- [ and I am sure McAfee falls into that as well ]
So the lesson learned here is to always keep in mind that pop-up blockers can come from anywhere and you need to keep on top of it. Especially if you are in a situation where you may not be in control of the systems or systems software.
Here is an update to the very first article ever published on this blog:
Hiding a tab on a data entry form in CRM 3.0
The only side-effect of the technique outlined in that article, is if you hide a tab in the middle of the tabset, there is an awkward blank spot.
A couple of weeks ago I got into an email conversation with Jerry O'Sullivan about this issue and admited that I really didn't have any idea of a way to get around it. Well, it turns out, James Wilcox, one of Jerry's clients, came up with the solution:
tab1Tab.style.display = 'none';
I could just kick myself. Of course that is the answer, just like I've written about in several articles dealing with form fields.
When you set an HTML element's display style to "hidden" it will insert it on the page in a non-viewable state. It's still there, but you can't see it.
If you set the display style to "none" it is in effect, removed from the page.
Thanks to Jerry and James for the update and information.
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