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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

Changing an automatic transaction text


Every financial transaction in Dynamics AX can (and normally should) have a descriptive text. Some texts are entered by users, and some can be generated by the system. The latter option happens for automatically-generated transactions, where the user cannot interact with the process.

Dynamics AX provides a way to define text for automatically-generated transactions. The setup can be found in Organizations administration | Setup | Default description. Here, the user can create custom transaction texts for various automatic transaction types and languages. The text itself can have a number of placeholders—digits with a percent sign in front of them, which are replaced with actual values during the process. Placeholders can be from %1 to %6, and they are substituted with the following values:

  • %1: the transaction date.

  • %2: a relevant number, such as invoice, delivery note, etc.

  • %3: the voucher number.

  • %4 to %6: custom; depends on the module.

In this recipe...