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MURRAY FIFE

DYNAMICS AX 2012 TIPS & TRICKS

ADDING A MENU ITEM FOR THE WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT MOBILE CLIENT TO THE TOOLS MENU


ADDING A MENU ITEM FOR THE WAREHOUSE

MANAGEMENT MOBILE CLIENT TO THE TOOLS MENU

BY MURRAY FIFE


What You Need For This Guide

All the examples shown in this blueprint were done with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 virtual machine image that was downloaded from the Microsoft CustomerSource or PartnerSource site. If you don't have your own installation of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, you can also use the images found on the Microsoft Learning Download Center or deployed through Lifecycle Services. The following list of software from the virtual image was leveraged within this guide:

• Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3

Even though all the preceding software was used during the development and testing of the recipes in this book, they may also work on earlier versions of the software with minor tweaks and adjustments, and should also work on later versions without any changes.

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Preface

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Adding A Menu Item For The

Warehouse Management Mobile

Client To The Tools Menu

Now that Dynamics AX R3 is available you may be working with the new Warehouse Management browser client. And if you are like me, opening up the browser window and then typing in the URL (http://localhost:82) may just be too much work and giving you serious carpel tunnel syndrome. Don’t worry though, if you want to write a couple of lines of code then you can easily add a menu item to your Tools menu that will open the mobile client up with just a click of the mouse.

It’s like having your own personal Stargate… sort of…

http://localhost:82/

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TIP & TRICKS FOR DYNAMICS AX 2012


To start off, access the Tools menu by clicking on the Files menu and then clicking on the Tools sub-menu. There is more than enough space for another menu item.

Adding A Menu Item For The Warehouse Management Mobile Client To The Tools Menu

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The first task that we need to do is create a Class within AOT that will open up the web page for us. To so that, open up AOT and then expand out the Classes folder.


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Right-mouse-click on the Classes folder itself, and select the New Class from the context menu.


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Now you should see a new generic Class.


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Change the Name field within the Properties pane to something a little more useful like WHSMobileDeviceBrowserand then double click on the class.


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This will open up the code editor for the Class.


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Press CTRL+N to create a new method for the class.


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And then change the method to be:

static void main(Args _args){

infolog.urllookup(“http://localhost:82”);}

Then close out the editor.


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To test the code, just right-mouse-click on the class and select the Open menu item.

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This should open up a browser window for you and take you straight to the mobile device portal.

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Now we need to create a Menu Item that will call the class. To do this open up the Menu Items group within AOTand expand out the Display group.


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Right-mouse-click on the Display node and select the New Menu Item option.


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This will create a new generic menu item for you.


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Change the Name property to something a little better than the default – like WHSOpenMobileDeviceBrowser.


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Then change the Client Type to Class.


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This will allow you to select your Class that you created in the last step.


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Finally, give the Menu Item a Label and Help Text before saving the change.

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You can test the Menu item just like you did with the Class by right-mouse-clicking on the menu item and selecting the Open menu item.


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If everything is configured correctly then the browser window should open up again.


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Now for the last step, which is to add the menu item to the Tools menu. To do this, open up the Menus group within AOTand find the GlobalToosMenu object.


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Right-mouse-click on it and select the New menu item and the Menu Item sub-menu option.


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This will add a new menu item to the end of the menu.


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From the MenuItemName dropdown, select the new menu item that you just created.


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This will automatically update the Menu Item Name for you.


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Now just save your changes to AOT.


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Now if you open up the Tools menu you will see a new menu item for opening the browser window.


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Clicking on the menu item takes you straight to the client.


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If you want to make it even better, you can make one small change – if you click on the login button, you will notice that the URL is slightly different.


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If you change the main() method to point to that URL rather than the base one then you will even bypass the splash screen.

Now we’re cooking with oil.


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The Tips & Tricks series is a compilation of all the cool things that I have found that you can do within Dynamics AX, and are also the basis for my Tips & Tricks presentations that I have been giving for the AXUG, and online. Unfortunately book page size restrictions mean that I can only fit 50 tips & tricks per book, but I will create new volumes every time I reach the 50 Tip mark. If you want to view all of the compilations then here are the links.

50 Tips & Tricks For Dynamics AX 2012http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495487776/

Another 50 Tips & Tricks for Dynamics AXhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/1497383412/

Want More Tips & Tricks

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http://www.amazon.com/Configuring-Production-Dynamics-Barebones-Configuration/dp/149920633X/

http://www.amazon.com/Configuring-Production-Dynamics-Barebones-Configuration/dp/149920633X/

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Murray Fife is a Microsoft Dynamics AX MVP, and Author with over 20 years of experience in the software industry.

Like most people in this industry he has paid his dues as a developer, an implementation consultant, a trainer, and now spend most of his days working with companies solving their problems with the Microsoft suite of products, specializing in the Dynamics® AX solutions.

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