Archive for December, 2007

How to extend your editor in Axapta

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

The editor in Axapta is as easy to extend as the rest environment. If you check the class EditorScripts, you see a list of methods which is standard. In this example we add a little script which marks your inputed extra code. We always mark all added or changed code, to make it easier to see afterwards what’s added and what’s standard. By doing this it is also makes it very easy to search for all code related to a certain project. This code is an example of what we all use several times a day.
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How to add a timer to the SalesTable form

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

When you want a grid in a form to be updated on a regular basis (so your users always see latest information), you need to add a timer to your form. You need two things. A timer method and a initial call to it when the form starts.
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SysInfoAction

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Found this blog entry made by Kamal. The entry explains how to use the SysInfoAction classes. I played around with this classes and found out that you can get pretty specific when referring the user to the source of the info message.

This is a simple job that produces an info box that gives the user the option to open a form and edit a specific field on a specific record:
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