Save & Publish Button for Forms and WebResources

While working with customizations and UI development in CRM 2011 – have you ever been looking for that “Save and Publish” button? Have you ever not been looking for it? We all wonder why it is not there and there is a case on Microsoft Connect requesting it.
But relax, it is quite easy to get it in there right now.

Annoying facts:

It seems to me that someone just forgot to implement this function. There is a button icon /CRMWEB/_imgs/ribbon/SaveAndPublish32.png (and corresponding 16 pix icon). The javascript function being called when clicking the existing Publish button in form customization is called SaveAndPublish(). It just does not do what the name indicates.

Solution:

To get a Save & Publish button:

Create a javascript webresource that first calls the Save function and then the Publish function

Create the button in the RibbonDiffXml section of customizations.xml, using existing icon files and calling the function created in step 1

Import the ribbon customizations

Javascript:

Cinteros.Xrm.Customization = {
    SaveAndPublishForm: function () {
        try {
            SaveForm(false);
        }
        catch (e) { }
        try {
            SaveAndPublish();
        }
        catch (e) { }
    },
    SaveAndPublishWebResource: function () {
        try {
            SaveForm(false);
        }
        catch (e) { }
        try {
            PublishWebResource();
        }
        catch (e) { }
    }
}

RibbonDiffXml:

  <RibbonDiffXml>
    <CustomActions>
      <CustomAction Id="Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveButtons.Controls" Location="Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveButtons.Controls._children" Sequence="1">
        <CommandUIDefinition>
          <Button Command="Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveButtons.Controls.Button.SaveAndPublish" CommandType="General" Id="Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveButtons.Controls.Button.SaveAndPublish.Id" Image16by16="/_imgs/ribbon/SaveAndPublish16.png" Image32by32="/_imgs/ribbon/SaveAndPublish32.png" TemplateAlias="o1" LabelText="$LocLabels:Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.LabelText" ToolTipTitle="$LocLabels:Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.ToolTip" ToolTipDescription="$LocLabels:Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.ToolTipDescription" />
        </CommandUIDefinition>
      </CustomAction>
      <CustomAction Id="Cint.Mscrm.WebResourceEditTab.Save.Controls" Location="Mscrm.WebResourceEditTab.Save.Controls._children" Sequence="1">
        <CommandUIDefinition>
          <Button Command="Cint.Mscrm.WebResourceEditTab.Save.Controls.Button.SaveAndPublish" CommandType="General" Id="Cint.Mscrm.WebResourceEditTab.Save.Controls.Button.SaveAndPublish.Id" Image16by16="/_imgs/ribbon/SaveAndPublish16.png" Image32by32="/_imgs/ribbon/SaveAndPublish32.png" TemplateAlias="o1" LabelText="$LocLabels:Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.LabelText" ToolTipTitle="$LocLabels:Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.ToolTip" ToolTipDescription="$LocLabels:Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.ToolTipDescription" />
        </CommandUIDefinition>
      </CustomAction>
    </CustomActions>
    <Templates>
      <RibbonTemplates Id="Mscrm.Templates"></RibbonTemplates>
    </Templates>
    <CommandDefinitions>
      <CommandDefinition Id="Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveButtons.Controls.Button.SaveAndPublish">
        <EnableRules>
          <EnableRule Id="Mscrm.Enable.IsCustomizableManagedPropertyRule" />
        </EnableRules>
        <DisplayRules />
        <Actions>
          <JavaScriptFunction FunctionName="Cinteros.Xrm.Customization.SaveAndPublish" Library="$webresource:cint_/scripts/utils_support.js" />
        </Actions>
      </CommandDefinition>
      <CommandDefinition Id="Cint.Mscrm.WebResourceEditTab.Save.Controls.Button.SaveAndPublish">
        <EnableRules>
          <EnableRule Id="Mscrm.Enable.IsWebResourceCustomizableRule" />
        </EnableRules>
        <DisplayRules />
        <Actions>
          <JavaScriptFunction FunctionName="Cinteros.Xrm.Customization.SaveAndPublishWebResource" Library="$webresource:cint_/scripts/utils_support.js" />
        </Actions>
      </CommandDefinition>
    </CommandDefinitions>
    <RuleDefinitions>
      <TabDisplayRules />
      <DisplayRules />
      <EnableRules />
    </RuleDefinitions>
    <LocLabels>
      <LocLabel Id="Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.LabelText">
        <Titles>
          <Title languagecode="1033" description="Save and Publish" />
          <Title languagecode="1053" description="Spara och Publicera" />
        </Titles>
      </LocLabel>
      <LocLabel Id="Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.ToolTip">
        <Titles>
          <Title languagecode="1033" description="Save and Publish" />
          <Title languagecode="1053" description="Spara och Publicera" />
        </Titles>
      </LocLabel>
      <LocLabel Id="Cint.Mscrm.FormEditorTab.SaveAndPublish.ToolTipDescription">
        <Titles>
          <Title languagecode="1033" description="Saves and publishes the form" />
          <Title languagecode="1053" description="Sparar och publicerar formuläret" />
        </Titles>
      </LocLabel>
    </LocLabels>
  </RibbonDiffXml>

Shortcut:

If you don’t want to do this manually, you can download a solution with just this content HERE.

3 thoughts on “Save & Publish Button for Forms and WebResources”

Chai says:

2019-06-29 at 12:18

Hi jonas the above link is not working . Please post the link of the managed solution

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1. Jonas Rapp says:
  
  2019-06-30 at 21:58
  
  Thanks for notifying me!
  This link should work: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnowMLo6AXd9cUyXqNEJxLc9Dbk?e=zs88Hu
  
  Jonas
  
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  1. Chai says:
    
    2019-07-01 at 09:47
    
    Thanks Jonas
    
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