Dialogs are a way to present users with a simple input form. They are commonly used for small user tasks like filling in report values, running batch jobs, presenting only the most important fields to the user when creating a new record, etc. Dialogs are normally created from X++ code without storing actual layout in AOT.
The application class Dialog
is used to build dialogs. Other application classes like DialogField
, DialogGroup
, DialogTabPage
, and so on, are used to create dialog controls. One of the common ways is to use dialogs within RunBase
framework classes that need user input.
In this example, we will see how to build a dialog from code using the RunBase
framework class. The dialog will contain customer table fields shown in different groups and tabs for creating a new record. There will be two tab pages, General and Details. The first page will have Customer account and Name input controls. The second page will be divided into two groups, Setup and Payment, with...