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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By : Mindaugas Pocius
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By: Mindaugas Pocius

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for mid-size and larger organizations. Dynamics AX implementations are used worldwide by thousands of customers. With the new version - Dynamics AX 2009 - 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. This step-by-step guide will help you manage your company'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. This book contains commonly used bits of code which were real-world tested in at least one successful Dynamics AX implementation. Many of the recipes were deployed in many implementations and even across several versions of Dynamics AX. The examples 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 book should help developers who already know the basics of Dynamics AX programming to step up to the next level. The recipes 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. Managing your data and functions will become easier. You will also get numerous development tips and tricks from a Dynamics AX development expert.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Using a form for lookup building


In numerous situations, standard, automatic, or even dynamic runtime lookups cannot display the required data. For example, it might be a lookup with tab pages or a search field. In such cases, Dynamics AX offers the possibility to create an AOT form and use it as lookup.

In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to create a lookup using an AOT form. As an example, we will modify the standard customer account lookup to display only active customers.

How to do it...

  1. In AOT, create a new form called CustLookup. Add a new data source with the following properties:

    Property

    Value

    Name

    CustTable

    Table

    CustTable

    AllowCreate

    No

    AllowEdit

    No

    AllowDelete

    No

    AllowCheck

    No

    OnlyFetchActive

    Yes

    Index

    AccountIdx

  2. Change the form's following design properties:

    Property

    Value

    Frame

    Border

    WindowType

    Popup

  3. Add a new Grid to the form's design:

    Property

    Value

    Name

    Customers

    ShowRowLabels

    No

    DataSource

    CustTable

  4. Add a new StringEdit control to the...