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Microsoft Dynamics AX (Archived)

Width of column in a RefrenceGroup is to small

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Hi 
I have a TabPage with AllowUserSetup = No 
In this tabPage I have a grid with a RefrenceGroup containing 2 strings StreetName StreetID

The width of StreetName and StreetID is to small how can I adjust this?
But keeping the AllowUserSetup to NO so that the user can't adjust the form

info:
RefrenceGroup 

width = Auto
height =Auto

I have tried to

  1. set the RefrenceGroup  autodeclaration = true and adjust it's width in code (no change)
  2. set the RefrenceGroup  width to 'column width' (no change)
  3. set the RefrenceGroup  width to a value eg. 500 (no change)
  4. set the EDT of the strings StreetName StreetID to a higher value (no change)

Suitable solutions are:

  1. letting the user only adjust the width of the columns StreetName StreetID
  2. setting the width of StreetName StreetID to a fixed value eg. 250
  3. other fixes that I can't think of

Thanks in advance
Tomas



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  • Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    If you right click > personalization on the field, you would be able to see what the control name is during runtime.

    You could get the form control without AutoDeclaration as element.design().controlName('YourControlNameText'); then do whatever you want with it for example in the run() method of the form, before the super() call.

    [View:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/formdesign.controlname.aspx:320:50]

    See if you are able to set the properties of the control like this to the desired values. It is not enough to set the fixed width, you also have to tell for the control that it should not use auto width by passing in WidthMode. Maybe that is what you were missing when setting it from code?

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    Community Member on at

    I have found a solution that works:

    I have set the display length of my EDT to a fixed value this way the column did change

    Thanks for your suggestion

  • Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    If that is a Standard AX EDT then it will affect the rendering on all forms where it is being used, and that might not be what your customer is expecting. If you only intended to change it for your specific form, I would still explore changing it runtime as per the suggestion above.

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    This is a EDT that is only used in this form so there is little to no impact.

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