AX2012 Custom Lookup on a Dialog

by Moritz · 7. December 2015

Today I struggled with a custom lookup on a dialog in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. To prevent this from happening to me again, and maybe to help you out too, I will share the solution with you here.

The following code will utilize a class which extends the AX2012 RunBase class, with a simple dialog and a custom lookup on an added field.

DialogLookup class

classDeclaration

Here the class declaration, don’t forget to extend RunBase.

	class DialogLookup extends RunBase
	{

	}

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Methods:

Main

Nothing special here either, just get a new instance from your class, to be able to run it later on.

	static void main(Args _args)
	{
	DialogLookup dialogLookup = new DialogLookup();

	if (dialogLookup.prompt())
	{
	dialogLookup.run();
	}
	}

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Our dialog

This is where the fun starts. You simply want to get the control from your field, then you call the registerOverrideMethod(…) and as parameter you provide your class name (in this case, the class we are actually writing here) and the method name (this does not have to be lookup!).

	protected Object dialog()
	{
	Dialog dialog;
	FormStringControl control;
	DialogField fieldLookup;

	dialog = super();

	// Dialog Title
	dialog.caption("Aif Adapter");

	// Field - EDT, Label
	fieldLookup = dialog.addField(extendedTypeStr(AifAdapterName), "AifAdapterName:");

	// Get control
	control = fieldLookup.control();

	// Override lookup method
	control.registerOverrideMethod(methodStr(FormStringControl, lookup),
	methodStr(DialogLookup /* Class name */,
	lookup /* Method name*/), this);

	return dialog;
	}

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The custom lookup

In the last step we will just set up a “normal” (don’t forget the FormStringControl!) lookup method.

	public void lookup(FormStringControl _control)
	{
	Query query = new Query();
	QueryBuildDataSource queryBuildDataSource;
	SysTableLookup sysTableLookup = SysTableLookup::newParameters(tableNum(AifAdapter),
	_control);

	// Create lookup for AifAdapter's Name and AdapterClassId
	sysTableLookup.addLookupField(fieldNum(AifAdapter, Name));
	sysTableLookup.addLookupField(fieldNum(AifAdapter, AdapterClassId));

	// Setup query
	queryBuildDataSource = query.addDataSource(tableNum(AifAdapter));
	sysTableLookup.parmQuery(query);

	// Perform lookup
	sysTableLookup.performFormLookup();
	}