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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

Picking a color


In this recipe, we will be creating a color lookup. As an example, we will create the possibility to choose a color in the Company information form, which might be used to define different colors for each Dynamics AX company. That's one of my favorites and is very useful in Dynamics AX multi-company installations. Normally, I use additional code, which reads the user setting and changes the background color of all forms in the same company. This allows users to easily identify in which company they are and prevents incorrect postings.

How to do it...

  1. Open the CompanyInfo table in AOT, and create a new field with properties:

    Property

    Value

    Type

    Integer

    Name

    CompanyColor

    ExtendedDataType

    CCColor

  2. Open the CompanyInfo form in AOT, and add a new IntEdit control into the TopPanel group right after the GroupName group. Set the following properties:

    Property

    Value

    Name

    CompanyColor

    AutoDeclaration

    Yes

    Label

    Company color

    LookupButton

    Always

    ShowZero

    No

    ColorScheme...