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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

Building a lookup based on record description


Most of Dynamics AX data lookups display a list of records where the first column always contains a value, which is returned to a calling form. The first column in the lookup normally contains a unique record identification value, which is used to build relations between tables.

For example, customer lookup displays customer account number, customer name, and some other fields; inventory item lookup displays item number, item name, and other fields. In these examples and most other cases, it is OK because unique record identification value is self explanatory.

But in some cases, the record identifier can be not so user-friendly and may require showing additional information on the parent form. One of the ways of solving such issues is to create a lookup, which is actually based on the record identifier, but upon user selection returns the record description or other more explanatory field. In the standard Dynamics AX application, you can find...