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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

Choosing a font


The Dynamics AX Options from Tools menu allows users to define their preferred fonts and sizes for various application areas. In custom functionality, it might also be necessary to add similar options allowing configuring font properties.

In this recipe, we will add an option to select a font in the Form setup form in the Accounts receivable module for sales invoice layout. The code in this recipe could be used in conjunction with the code that reads this parameter and actually changes invoice font.

How to do it...

  1. Open the CustFormLetterParameters table in AOT.

  2. Add a new field:

    Property

    Value

    Type

    String

    Name

    InvoiceFontName

    ExtendedDataType

    FontName

  3. Add one more field:

    Property

    Value

    Type

    Integer

    Name

    InvoiceFontSize

    ExtendedDataType

    FontSize

  4. Open the CustFormLetterParameters form in AOT, and add a new display method to the CustFormLetterParameters data source:

    display Name displayInvoiceFont(
         CustFormLetterParameters _custFormLetterParameters)
     {;
        ...