Surface theme: skipping the MaintenanceTypeDlg

[Nick]

Hello guys,

I'm working with a fairly heavily modified version of the "Surface" theme and one customisation I'd like to introduce is enforcing "remove" as the only maintenance type. I'm aware it's possible to hide or disable the buttons for "modify" and "repair" but instead of doing this, I'd prefer to skip directly from the "PrepareDlg" to the "VerifyRemoveDlg", without displaying the "MaintenanceTypeDlg" at all.

Please can you advise if this is possible, and if so how I could go about it?

Thanks,
Nick

[Daniel]

Hello Nick,

I'm afraid we do not have built-in support for this option.

As a workaround solution you can completely delete the "MaintenanceTypeDlg" dialog and "VerifyRemoveDlg" too from your maintenance dialog chain. Then after the "PrepareDlg" dialog of the maintenance chain you can add a new dialog in sequence which you can customize to act as "VerifyRemoveDlg".

On the custom dialog in sequence all you need to do is to add a image button (remove) with the following published events:

• Control Event: Uninstall one or more features
  Argument: ALL
  Condition:
  
  Control Event: Close the current dialog
  Argument: Return
  Condition:

Let us know if this worked.

All the best,
Daniel

[Nick]

Thank you Daniel - that seems to be working fine.

Best regards,
Nick

[Daniel]

You are welcome Nick.

All the best,
Daniel