I have spent a day trying to resolve an issue and I am so close! But I think the final solution is beyond my abilities...

I have a custom object (Event) where I would like to hide the New button on the Object Tab - I want to force people to create the Event from the Related List on another object (Inquiry).

Initially I tried to override the Button with a simple error message page I made with guidance from this blog - http://rjpalombo.com/2012/04/override-a-standard-salesforce-page-with-visualforce/ - but that impacts the usage of the New button everywhere, including my Related List on Inquiry.

I got really excited by this post - http://forums.sforce.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/board-id/Visualforce/message-id/37818/print-single-message/false/page/1 - which lead me to override the custom tab with a simple Visualforce page with EnhancedList, or even just ListView - but both still include the New button.  There is a comment on that post that claims "If you just want to hide the new button, modify the selector" but I don't know how to do that.

Thanks in advance for any assistance! Hopefully I will eventually get past the copy-and-paste-other-peoples-markup phase...

I have spent a day trying to resolve an issue and I am so close! But I think the final solution is beyond my abilities...

I have a custom object (Event) where I would like to hide the New button on the Object Tab - I want to force people to create the Event from the Related List on another object (Inquiry).

Initially I tried to override the Button with a simple error message page I made with guidance from this blog - http://rjpalombo.com/2012/04/override-a-standard-salesforce-page-with-visualforce/ - but that impacts the usage of the New button everywhere, including my Related List on Inquiry.

I got really excited by this post - http://forums.sforce.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/board-id/Visualforce/message-id/37818/print-single-message/false/page/1 - which lead me to override the custom tab with a simple Visualforce page with EnhancedList, or even just ListView - but both still include the New button.  There is a comment on that post that claims "If you just want to hide the new button, modify the selector" but I don't know how to do that.

Thanks in advance for any assistance! Hopefully I will eventually get past the copy-and-paste-other-peoples-markup phase...