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19 July 2009

Dynamic dialogs for Microsoft Dynamics AX reports

by Patrik Luca 1 comments

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Introduction: dynamic dialogs

This post shows how to make dynamic dialogs for Microsoft Dynamics AX reports. To illustrate this, I elaborated an example based on a standard Microsoft Dynamics AX report which can be found in the Human Resources module by following this path: Human Resources > Reports > Status lists > Absence status.

Purpose of this dynamic dialog is to fill in automatically the End date with a value equal to the end of the month of the entered value for the Start date.

Solution: dialogSelectCtrl method

Go to the class HRMAbsenceStatusListPrint, which is the class related to the Absence status report used in this example.

Add a new method called dialogSelectCtrl, which looks like this:

public void dialogSelectCtrl() 

{

;

super();

// get the value entered by the
// end-user for the startDate
startDate = dialogStartDate.value();

// only set the a value if the endDate
// doesn’t have a value yet
if(startDate && !dialogEndDate.value())
{
// set automatically the endDate equal to the end
// of the month of the entered value by the end-user
dialogEndDate.value(EndMth(startDate));
}

}


Edit the existing dialog method and add following line just before the return dialog line to call the logic implemented in the dialogSelectCtrl method:



public Object dialog()
{
// call the dialogSelectCtrl method when a control is selected
dialog.allowUpdateOnSelectCtrl(true);
return dialog;
}

Comments 1 comments
Anonymous said...

Very nice, thank you!

Patrik Luca, Ieper, BELGIUM
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