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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By : Mindaugas Pocius
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By: Mindaugas Pocius

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for mid-size and larger organizations. Dynamics AX implementations are used worldwide by thousands of customers. With the new version - Dynamics AX 2009 - the system is due to expand even more rapidly. Every new implementation requires some level of customization, and all organizations want this to be done to the highest standards using proven approaches. This step-by-step guide will help you manage your company's ERP information and operations efficiently, and solve your business process problems in an effective and quick way. This book focuses on commonly used custom modifications in major Dynamics AX modules. This book contains commonly used bits of code which were real-world tested in at least one successful Dynamics AX implementation. Many of the recipes were deployed in many implementations and even across several versions of Dynamics AX. The examples in this book cover various areas of Dynamics AX to help developers not only learn about programming, but also about the functional side of Dynamics AX. The book should help developers who already know the basics of Dynamics AX programming to step up to the next level. The recipes allow you to look at the development from the perspective of business processes. You will learn to enhance your user interface using various Dynamics AX UI elements. Managing your data and functions will become easier. You will also get numerous development tips and tricks from a Dynamics AX development expert.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Browsing for folders


Folder browsing lookups are used when the user is required to specify a local or network folder for storing or retrieving Dynamics AX data. In this recipe, we will see how such lookups could be built using various techniques.

As an example, we will create a new control called Documents in the Ledger parameters form, which will store a folder path.

How to do it...

  1. Open the LedgerParameters table in AOT, and create a new field:

    Property

    Value

    Type

    String

    Name

    DocumentPath

    ExtendedDataType

    FilePath

    Label

    Documents

  2. Add the newly created field to the bottom of the General field group.

  3. Open LedgerParameters form in AOT, and create the following method:

    str filePathLookupTitle()
     {
         return "Select document folder";
     }
  4. To check the results, open General ledger | Setup | Parameters, and notice that now it has a new control Documents, which allows you to select a folder:

How it works...

The folder browsing lookup is bound to the FilePath extended data type, and it appears...