How to enable / disable form control through code in Ax 2009

Hi Friends,

I was designed new form for one of the functionality and while opening the form i suppose to set the properties of form controls. For this i  used the following line code.

1. Set the Auto Declaration property to true for that form control.

2. In the general methods of the form override the init() method.

3. In Init method after super() i used the following code line to set the properties

    

    element.control(control::ControlName).enabled(false);

    E.g. element.control(control::ToDate).enabled(false);

4. While writing this line of code you will not get any intellisense after Control::

     You have to just type your control name and compile the method and it's done.

Hope this will help anyone.

Kiss'shor.. :)

Date functions in AX 2009

Hi....

These are some of the functions,from where we can get the day or month or year from the date...
Here is the below example....

static void date_Functions(Args _args)
{
    Transdate    d;
    ;
    
    d = today();
    
    info(strfmt("Date - %1",d));
    
    //Gets the month for the given date...
    info(strfmt("Month - %1",mthofYr(d)));
    
    //Gets the month name from the given date...
    info(strfmt("Month Name - %1",mthname(mthofYr(d))));
    
    //Gets the day for the given date...
    info(strfmt("Day - %1",dayOfMth(d)));
    
    //Gets the day name from the given date...
    info(strfmt("Day Name - %1",dayname(dayOfMth(d))));
    
    //Gets the year for the given date...
    info(strfmt("Year - %1",year(d)));
    
    //Gets the current weekday number from the date...
    info(strfmt("Weekday number - %1",dayOfwk(d)));
    
    //Gets the day of the year from the given date...
    info(strfmt("Day of year - %1",dayOfyr(d)));
    
    //Gets the week of the year from the given date...
    info(strfmt("Week of the year - %1",wkofyr(d)));
}

Source : http://kollidynamics.blogspot.in/search?updated-max=2011-08-27T02:41:00-07:00&max-results=4&start=8&by-date=false

Sequence of methods in the FORM level in AX

Hi...

This gives the information of method calls in the form level while

1. Opening the Form.

2. Creating/Updating/Deleting the record in the Form.

3. Closing the Form.

Sequence of Methods calls while opening the Form

Form --- init ()

Form --- Datasource --- init ()

Form --- run ()

Form --- Datasource --- execute Query ()

Form --- Datasource --- active ()

Sequence of Methods calls while closing the Form

Form --- canClose ()

Form --- close ()

Sequence of Methods calls while creating the record in the Form

Form --- Datasource --- create ()

Form --- Datasource --- initValue ()

Table --- initValue ()

Form --- Datasource --- active ()

Sequence of Method calls while saving the record in the Form

Form --- Datasource --- ValidateWrite ()

Table --- ValidateWrite ()

Form --- Datasource --- write ()

Table --- insert ()

Sequence of Method calls while deleting the record in the Form

Form --- Datasource --- validatedelete ()

Table --- validatedelete ()

Table --- delete ()

Form --- Datasource --- active ()

Sequence of Methods calls while modifying the fields in the Form

Table --- validateField ()

Table --- modifiedField ()

Source:  http://kollidynamics.blogspot.in/2011/08/sequence-of-methods-in-form-level-in-ax.html

How to Create a new “Parameters form” for New Module developed in AX

How to develop a new “Parameters form” in case of New Module developed in AX.

We go through it by considering an example of creating the new module as Payroll.

So now we will create the Payroll Parameters setup form for the payroll module.

Initially create a Parameters table for the Module, the naming convention should be the Module name followed by Parameter as in this case it is PayrollParameters table….and need to have the fields accordingly what is required in the Parameters table.

Set the following properties for the parameter table as…

Create a parameter form by considering the PayrollParameters andNumberSequenceReference as data sources. And set the following properties for the data source in the form level as

First thing is that there shouldn’t be any provision to create the record in the parameters form. The record in the Parameters should be by default and it can be updated as per the functionality required

So when creating the new company in the Axapta, the parameters form should have the default values.

To have the default values in the parameters we need to have the following code in the table  level of find() of PayrollParameters tables .

static PayrollParameters find(boolean _forupdate = false)

{

    PayrollParameters  parameter;

    if (_forupdate)

    parameter.selectForUpdate(_forupdate);

    select firstonly parameter

        index Key

        where parameter.Key == 0;

    if (!parameter && !parameter.isTmp())

    {

        Company::createParameter(parameter);

        NumberSeqReference::construct(PayrollParameters::numberSeqModule()).load();

    }

    return parameter;

}

Source :http://kollidynamics.blogspot.in/2011/08/how-to-develop-new-parameters-form-in.html

Displaying a Message Box

You can display a message in a modal dialog box by using the Box class.

Some methods in the Box class display a dialog box that contains multiple buttons. These methods have a parameter for choosing which button has focus when the dialog box is first displayed. This parameter is of type DialogButtonenum. Most of these multiple-button methods return a value of type DialogButton enum. This returned value enables your program to branch based on which button the user clicked.

Note
The Box application class calls the DialogBox system class. Don't call it directly—always call the Box class instead.

Creating a Message Box

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The following are guidelines to help you create an effective message box:

• Choose a Box method that matches your purpose.
• Write the information text to match the buttons in the box.
• Choose the button best suited for having initial focus.
• Use the returned DialogButton value to direct the branching in your code.

Box Class Methods

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The following table describes the Box class methods and their associated DialogBoxType system enum values.

Box class static method name	AssociatedDialogBoxTypeenum value	Description
info	InfoBox	The OK button is the only one that the info method displays in the dialog box. Use this method to display general information messages rather than for warning or error messages.
infoOnce	InfoBox	The infoOnce method is similar to the info method but with the following differences: Your code cannot set the text in the title bar. An additional header section is displayed under the title bar, and you can set the text that displays in the header. A More info button is present. When clicked, it opens a Web browser to the URL string that you supply through a parameter. The infoOnce method returns void, even though it has two buttons.
infoOnceEx	InfoBox	The infoOnceEx method is similar to the infoOnce method but with the following differences: The infoOnceEx method has a parameter that can be passed in to set the text in the title bar. The infoOnceEx method has a Boolean parameter for choosing whether to have the caller thread continue processing while the user reads the message in the dialog box.
okCancel	OkCancelBox	The OK and Cancel buttons are displayed in the dialog box. Call this method when the user must confirm or reject an action.
stop	StopBox	The OK button is the only one displayed in the dialog box. Use this method to display a message when the user should stop attempting their action or when a process has stopped running.
warning	WarnBox	The OK button is the only one displayed in the dialog box. Use this dialog box for a warning message.
yesAllNoAllCancel	YesToAllNoToAllBox	The buttons displayed in this dialog box are Yes, Yes to all, No, No to all, and Cancel.
yesNo	YesNoBox	The buttons displayed in this dialog box are Yes and No. Call this method when you need the user to make a choice.
yesNoNoAllCancel	NoToAllBox	The buttons displayed in this dialog box are Yes, No, No to all, andCancel.
yesNoAxaptaForm	YesNoBox	The yesNoAxaptaForm method is similar to the yesNo method but with the following differences: The yesNoAxaptaForm dialog box has a different image. The yesNoAxaptaForm dialog box is wider.
yesNoCancel	YesNoCancelBox	The buttons displayed in this dialog box are Yes, No, and Cancel. Call this method when the yesNo method is insufficient.
yesNoOnce	YesNoBox	The yesNoOnce method is similar to the yesNo method but with the following differences: The yesNoOnce dialog box has a different image. The yesNoOnce dialog box has a check box that the user can select to suppress any further occurrence of an associated message.
yesYesAllNoCancel	YesToAllBox	The Yes, Yes to all, No, and Cancel buttons are displayed.

Example

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The following example displays a message box that contains buttons labeled Yes, No, and Cancel. The No button has initial focus. When a button is clicked, a message is displayed in the Print Window to indicate which button was clicked. Run this example as a job in the Application Object Tree (AOT).

static void JobBoxDemo(Args _args)
{
    DialogButton diagBut;
    str strMessage = "The No button should have initial focus.";
    str strTitle = "Title";
    ;
    diagBut = Box::yesNoCancel(
        strMessage,
        DialogButton::No, // Initial focus is on the No button.
        strTitle);
    if (diagBut == DialogButton::No)
        {
            print "The No button was clicked.";
        }
    else
        {
            print "The button that was clicked was: ", diagBut;
        }
    pause;
}

Source : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa860308(v=ax.50).aspx

Create Bat file to execute commands in AX

Hi,

I wanted to execute the close ax application on certain conditions, so that i have used the .bat file to execute the same.

1) How to create bat file?

1. Open notepad and enter the command that you have to execute.
2. As I have to execute the close command for ax i used the following line of code.

         @echo off
          taskkill /F /im Ax32.exe

     3. "Save As" the notepad file with selection of "Save As Type:" : "All files" and enter file name with .bat extension.

2) How to call bat file from ax application ?
    I have executed the "Close application code" on the button click.
 
        void btnCloseAppl()
   {
       str path;
       ;
       path="C:\TestFileToCloseAppl\Axclose.bat";  
       //Kindly check the path may be have to add '\' in between the path  
       winapi::shellExecute(path);
   }

Thanks,
Kishor