---
title: mdlUtilities
summary: API reference for mdlUtilities.
status: draft
owner: SAIF Documentation Team
last_reviewed: 2026-08-17
library: SAIF.Presentation.Web.Controls.V2
reference_type: package
---

# mdlUtilities

`Utilities.mdlUtilities` is a small module that tags/reads a `ControlManagerEnableable` HTML attribute on `WebControl` instances, letting a page's client-side "control manager" script know whether it is permitted to enable/disable a given control (e.g., excluding decorative images from a bulk enable/disable pass, as `SAIFHoverHelp` and `SAIFMessage` do for their icon images)*.

## Purpose
- Provide a shared, attribute-based convention for marking controls as eligible or ineligible for a client-side control-manager's enable/disable sweep.

## Context
- Namespace: `Utilities`
- Assembly/package: Compiled into `SAIF.BOF.Presentation.Web.Infragistics103`*

## Public members
| Member | Signature | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `SetControlManagerEnableable(inControl, inEnableable)` | `Public Sub SetControlManagerEnableable(ByVal inControl As System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl, ByVal inEnableable As Boolean)` | Adds a `ControlManagerEnableable` HTML attribute to the given control with the specified boolean value, for a client-side control-manager script to read. |
| `CanControlManagerEnableControl(inControl)` | `Public Function CanControlManagerEnableControl(ByVal inControl As System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl) As Boolean` | Reads the `ControlManagerEnableable` attribute from the given control (if present) and returns its boolean value; returns `True` by default if the attribute was never set. |

## Behavioral notes
- Used by `SAIFHoverHelp` (to exclude its help icon `Image` from a control-manager enable/disable sweep) and `SAIFMessage` (to exclude its status icon `Image` similarly).
- A code comment in the source notes an open question about whether repeated calls to `SetControlManagerEnableable` overwrite or duplicate the attribute — this was not independently verified**.

## Constraints and usage notes
- Consumers of this module must have their own client-side "control manager" script that reads the `ControlManagerEnableable` attribute; that script is not part of this library and was not found in this project**.

> **Note:** Statements marked with * were inferred from code structure, naming conventions, or
> contextual evidence where direct confirmation was not available in source artifacts. Statements
> marked with ** could not be confirmed; treat as unknown until verified.

## Sources
- SAIF.Presentation.Web.Controls.V2\mdlUtilities.vb