When developing a new form or a new table that will have display or edit methods we should be thinking about how costly these types of methods are. Adding lots of these methods to a form can cause a large delay in opening and refreshing as these methods are recalculated every time a refresh is […]
Drill through links in SSRS are controlled by C# code which produces a URL that can be processed to call AX which can open a form with the appropriate record. There is a common class (DrillThroughCommonHelper) that will need to be either referenced or modified if you would like to use a lookup in Your […]
If you are developing a larger auto-design report which groups data together it might be worth adding document navigation to the query to allow the end user to jump between sections of the report: To do this you will need to set up grouping on your table to allow the jumping. The label […]
I wanted to move some of the google maps work I did in AX 2009. One of the bits I did originally was to produce a mini map in the customer screen: I decided to fit better with 2012 I have moved it to a factbox. To create a fact box first you have […]
Here are the steps to get AIF up and running and accessible. In this example I have created an excel add-in to pull on hand information for items. Create a port Firstly you need to create a port to allow access to your data. There are two ways of creating a port, you […]
I have developed a form using a 3rd party .net control and used this within a Dynamics Ax form in AX 2012. The control I used was the Amazing progress bar found here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/182973/The-Amazing-ProgressBar-Control To use a custom .net control firstly you will need to add the reference DLL file to all client. Adding the […]
I have added a graph to the top 100 customers report in AX2012 and it already has the percentage field on the report. I had thought that it would be just a case of referencing that field and then creating a chart. While this might be possible in the end I modified the DP class […]
The job below that will get Infolog items, clear them and save each one for later use. This can be of use when you need to record the Infolog for later viewing static void Job1(Args _args) { container errors; container t; int i; int length; ; warning(“Test1”); error(“Test2”); errors = conIns(errors, 1, t); […]
I have been playing a bit with the email process of an SSRS report in AX 2012 as a self-learning exercise. Thought it might be worthwhile to share the code I have written so far. Using real life examples of requested functionality I have changed the SalesInvoice report to: Create an Email and save […]
About a year ago I had the luxury of some self learning time at work. I set about a task to intergrate a mapping utility with route planning. I chose Google maps as it returned an XML file that was easy to read. I wanted to pick up the total distance and time for my […]