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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

Searching for an object in a development project


In Dynamics AX, any development changes to the application normally have to be organized in development projects. The same object could belong to one or more projects, but Dynamics AX does not provide an easy way to determine this.

In this recipe, we will create a class for searching the development projects. The class is only for demonstration purposes but could easily be converted to a standalone tool or integrated into the right-click menu.

How to do it...

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

  1. 1. In the AOT, create a new class with the following code:

    class DevProjectSearch
    {
    }
    private boolean findChildren(
    TreeNode _parent,
    UtilElementType _type,
    IdentifierName _name)
    {
    TreeNode child;
    TreeNodeIterator iterator;
    #TreeNodeSysNodeType
    iterator = _parent.AOTiterator();
    child = iterator.next();
    while (child)
    {
    if (child.treeNodeType().id() == #NT_PROJECT_GROUP)
    {
    return this.findChildren(child, _type, _name);
    }
    else...