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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 tree lookup


Form tree controls are a user-friendly way of displaying a hierarchy of related records like a company organizational structure, a bill of materials, projects, etc. Such a hierarchy can also be used in custom lookups allowing user to browse and select the required node in more convenient ways.

One of the previous recipes explained how to display the ledger budget model hierarchy in the Budget model form. In this recipe, we will reuse the previously created BudgetModelTree class to build a budget model tree lookup.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new form in AOT:

    Property

    Value

    Name

    BudgetModelLookup

  2. Set its design properties to:

    Property

    Value

    Frame

    Border

    WindowType

    Popup

  3. Add a new Tree control to the form's design.

    Property

    Value

    Name

    ModelTree

  4. Add the following line to the form's class declaration:

    BudgetModelTree  budgetModelTree;
  5. Override the form's init() with:

    public void init()
     {
         FormStringControl callingControl;
         ;
     
         callingControl = SysTableLookup...