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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook

By : Mindaugas Pocius
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook

By: Mindaugas Pocius

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX is a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for mid-size and large organizations. Dynamics AX implementations are used worldwide by thousands of customers. With the new version - Dynamics AX 2012 - 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. Written by one of the leading experts in Microsoft Dynamics AX, 'Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook' is packed with over 80 task-based and immediately reusable recipes that will help you manage your company's or customer'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. The recipes 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 practical recipes will also 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 and managing your data and functions will become easier.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating a wizard


Wizards in Dynamics AX are used to help a user to perform a specific task. Some examples of standard Dynamics AX wizards are Report Wizard, Project Wizard, Number Sequence Wizard, and so on.

Normally, a wizard is presented to a user as a form with a series of steps. While running the wizard, all user inputs are stored in temporary memory until the user presses the Finish button on the last wizard page.

In this recipe, we will create a new wizard for creating main accounts. First, we will use the standard Dynamics AX Wizard to create a framework and then we will manually add some additional controls.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps in order to complete this recipe:

  1. 1. Open Tools | Wizards | Wizard.

  2. 2. Click on Next on the first page:

  3. 3. Select Standard Wizard and click on Next:

  4. 4. Specify MainAccount in the name field and click on Next:

  5. 5. Accept the default number of steps and click on Next:

  6. 6. Click on Finish to complete the wizard:

  7. 7. The wizard creates an...