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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

Modifying the User setup form


The User setup form allows users to customize their most often used forms to fit their needs. Users can hide or move form controls, change labels, and so on. The setup is available for any Dynamics AX form and can be opened from the right-click context menu by selecting the Setup option.

As a developer, I also use this form very often. For example, it contains the very handy System name field, which displays the name of the currently selected table field or method, so you do not need to search in AOT. The Information tab page provides information about the form itself, the caller object, and the menu item used, and it allows opening those objects instantly in AOT view. The last tab page Query shows the tables used in the form's query, which is also very useful to quickly understand the underlying data structure.

In this recipe, we will enhance the User setup form. We will add a new button to the last tab page, which will open the selected table in AOT.

How to...