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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
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Preface

Building a lookup for selecting a file


In Dynamics AX, file reading or saving is a very common operation. Most of the non-automated file reading or writing operations prompts the user to specify the file name.

This recipe will demonstrate how the user could be presented with the file browse dialog, in order to choose a file in a convenient way. As an example, we will create a new control called Terms & conditions in the Form setup form in the Procurement and sourcing module, which allows storing of a path to the text document.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In the AOT, open the VendFormLetterParameters table and create a new field with the following properties:

    Property

    Value

    Type

    String

    Name

    TermsAndConditions

    Label

    Terms & conditions

    ExtendedDataType

    FilenameOpen

  2. 2. Then add the field to the bottom of the table's PurchaseOrder field group.

  3. 3. Next, open the PurchFormLetterParameters form, and create the following four methods:

    public str fileNameLookupTitle()
    {
    return...