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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

Creating an editor template


Editor templates allow developers to reuse commonly used blocks of code. Dynamics AX provides a number of out of the box code templates for creating construct(), main(), and parm() methods, various statements such as if, else, switch, code comments, and others. The existing templates can also be modified, or new templates can be created.

In this recipe, we will create a new code template for the find() method, which is normally created on most of the tables. The template will only be available for table methods and will automatically detect the current table's name and use its primary key to determine the method's arguments.

How to do it...

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

  1. 1. In the AOT, locate the xppSource class and create a new method with the following code:

    public Source findMethod(TableName _tableName)
    {
    str method;
    DictTable dictTable;
    DictIndex dictIndex;
    DictField dictField;
    FieldName fieldName;
    DictType dictType;
    DictEnum...