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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

Building a dynamic form


A standard approach for creating forms in Dynamics AX is to create and store form objects in the AOT. Using this approach, it is possible to achieve a high level of complexity. However, in a number of cases, it is required to have forms created dynamically. In the standard Dynamics AX application we can see that application objects, such as the Table browser form, various lookups, or dialogs, are built dynamically.

In this recipe, we will create a dynamic form. In order to show how flexible it can be, we will replicate the layout of the existing Customer groups form located in the Accounts receivable module. It can be opened from Accounts receivable | Setup | Customers.

How to do it...

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

  1. 1. In the AOT, create a new class called CustGroupDynamic with the following code:

    class CustGroupDynamic
    {
    }
    public static void main(Args _args)
    {
    DictTable dictTable;
    Form form;
    FormBuildDesign design;
    FormBuildDataSource...