Disabling Enterprise Feature Buttons
I discovered a while back that it is not possible to hide the Enterprise Features “Features” because they have Activation Dependencies. You can see more on what these features include in this post: Enterprise Features Exposed.
In a conversation this afternoon, I was talking through this concept again and thought that if disabling the feature wasn’t possible, at least I could hide the button on the page.
So, I did a view source on the page and pulled the control ID (for which for 99% of the SharePoint sites out there will be the same). Then, I added a simple style to the application.master page in “12 Hive\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS” which serves ManageFeatures.aspx page.
<script language=”javascript”>
var siteCollectionFeatureButton = ‘ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_featact_rptrFeatureList_ctl03_btnActivate’;
var siteFeatureButton = ‘ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_featact_rptrFeatureList_ctl17_btnActivate’;
var featureButton = document.getElementById(siteCollectionFeatureButton);
featureButton.style.visibility = “hidden”;
featureButton = document.getElementById(siteFeatureButton);
featureButton.style.visibility = “hidden”;
</script>
Whether hiding to prevent activation or deactivation, both will still be possible via object model and stsadm.exe
