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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

Posting a purchase order


In Dynamics AX, a purchase order goes through a number of statuses in order to reflect its current position within the purchasing process. This status can be updated either manually by using the user interface or programmatically from code.

In this recipe, we will demonstrate how a purchase order status can be updated from code. We will confirm the purchase order created in the previous recipe and will print the relevant document on the screen.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In the AOT, create a new job named PurchOrderPost with the following code (replace 000409 with your number):

    static void PurchOrderPost(Args _args)
    {
    PurchFormLetter purchFormLetter;
    PurchTable purchTable;
    purchTable = PurchTable::find('000409');
    purchFormLetter = PurchFormLetter::construct(
    DocumentStatus::PurchaseOrder);
    purchFormLetter.update(
    purchTable,
    '',
    systemDateGet(),
    PurchUpdate::All,
    AccountOrder::None,
    NoYes::No,
    NoYes::Yes);
    }
    
  2. 2. Run the job to post the specified purchase order and display the...