Solution: Use the EnumTypeParameter property on a Menu Item

1. Drag and drop the ProjSalesItemReq form to the Display node in the AOT as such creating a new Display Menu Item.
2. Set the EnumTypeParameter property of the newly created Menu Item to NoYes and the EnumParameter property to Yes.
   
3. Add a variable to the init method of the form ProjSalesItemReq, which will be used to store the value according to with which menu item the ProjSalesItemReq form will be called.

   NoYes                   showAll;




4. Add following code snippet to the init method of the form ProjSalesItemReq, to set the value of the filter if the form is called with the newly created Menu Item.
   

   …
   if (element.args().parmEnumType())
   
   {
   
       showAll = element.args().parmEnum();
      
       if (showAll)
   
       {
   
           ctrlActiveAll.selection(ProjActiveAll::All);
   
       }
   
   }
   …



5. Add the newly created Menu Item to the ProjTable form.

If you open the Item Requirements form with the standard Dynamics AX MenuItemButton, the filter will be set to Active, showing only the active item requirements.

If you open the Item Requirements form with the newly created MenuItemButton, the filter will be set to All, showing all item requirements for the selected Project.

X++ Code Snippet: Using a Message Box

A Message Box will be created using the Box class, asking the end user for a confirmation before the process is executed. Create following job to understand the working of the Message Box. This job will do an update of the CustTable each time the end user presses the OK button in the Message Box, else the CustTable isn’t updated.

static void tutorial_box() 
{

    CustTable   custTable; 
    ;


    if(Box::yesNo("Modify customer?"

                  , DialogButton::No) 

        == DialogButton::No)  
        return; 

    ttsbegin;
  
    select forUpdate custTable

    where custTable.AccountNum  == "1101"; 

    custTable.Memo += "\r\n"  
                   + date2str(SystemDateGet(),123,2,1,2,1,4) 
                   + " " 

                   + time2str(timenow(), 1, 1);  
    custTable.update();
  
    ttscommit;
}

Each time you run the Job a Message Box appears:

If the end user chooses Yes, the Memo field of the CustTable will be update, else not.

Use of the comObject method of the SysExcelStyle class

I already explained the use of the SysExcelStyle class in my previous posts. I created a Header style and set its font to bold and a specific color. These methods are easy to use, as they can found with the IntelliSense functionality.

However, by using the comObject method, you can go even further and have extra formatting possibilities at your disposal. Unfortunately, these can’t be found with IntelliSense, nor I find documentation about it. I found already these possibilities, if someone finds other ones, please post a comment: it could be handy for others aswell…

...
SysExcelStyle           style;
;

...
// Set orientation
style.comObject().orientation(90);
// distribute text
style.horizontalalignment(-4117);
// center text
style.horizontalalignment(-4108);
// right align text
style.horizontalalignment(-4152);
// set indent level
style.comObject().indentlevel(5);
// wrap text
style.comObject().wraptext(true);
...