How to change the Label of a Menu from X++?

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Posted on by Sagnik Majumder

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Hi All,

I have a Menu in Dynamics AX 2012 and set up its Label 'ABCD' from Properties pane in AOT. I have also set up its reference inside MainMenu.

Now what I want, is to change this Label value programmatically (i.e. from X++ code) if a particular condition is true. That is I want to make the Label of that Menu change to 'XYZ' (if some p > q).

Is it possible programmatically? And if yes, plz suggest a way.

Thanks & Regards.

Sagnik.

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Bilal Issa 4,370 on at

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Hi ,

Yes, that is possible, please check the link below, it is used for form, but you can do the same for menu item.

blogs.msdn.com/.../use-x-to-loop-through-the-aot.aspx

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Bilal

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Iulian Cordobin 8,201 on at

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You could use something like this:

static void changeLabel(Args _args)

{

TreeNode node;

node = TreeNode::findNode("\\Menu Items\\Display\\AccountingDistributions");

if (node != null)

{

info(strFmt("Old value: %1", node.AOTgetProperty("Label")));

node.AOTsetProperty("Label", "Your value");

info(strFmt("New value: %1", node.AOTgetProperty("Label")));

}

}

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Sagnik Majumder 792 on at

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Hi Bilal, the link you have shared doesn't solve the purpose.

I want to know is there any way to set the Label text for a particular Menu? Eg:-

myMenu.setLabel("MyLabel"); --> any method like this?

I have tried using DictMenu, but still can't set its Label. I am able to Get the Label value, but not Set it.

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Iulian Cordobin 8,201 on at

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You need a lower level of reflection than Dict*, the TreeNode should give you what you need. But I am not sure I understood, you need to change the label in the Menu or on the Menu Item?

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Bilal Issa 4,370 on at

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I agree with Iulian , node.AOTsetProperty("Label", "Your value"); should do it.

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Zisis 40 on at

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If we are talking about a menu (and not a button or something o a form) I dont think that this is possible. The menus lables etc are cached when the user opens the client.

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Iulian Cordobin 8,201 on at

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Hi Sagnik,

Did the solution provided worked for you, or the request was misunderstood and you actually needed to change the label for a Menu, in which case, this is not possible - the TreeNode reflection doesn't work on menus because the property you would change is 'Name' not label (at least from my knowledge).

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Sagnik Majumder 792 on at

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Hi Iulian, thanks for your answer. First of all I would like to tell you that I wanted to change the label of a Menu (and not a menuitem).

I worked on your TreeNode solution, and found that the Menu label is indeed changed from "OldValue" to "NewValue". But the problem is you have to restart the AX client once for this change to reflect. Though that is not a big blunder in my scenario, but the problem is, as I am using version control for my classes and forms, hence it requires to Check Out that particular Menu in AOT, and only then, it can apply the label change. This, for me, is a big catch.

Can you suggest any way to overcome this?

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Sagnik Majumder 792 on at

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Sorry, I took a deeper look at the TreeNode class and found the option.

Its the treenode.AOTAllowEdit();

This function worked like magic for me. It didnot require me to check out the AOT Menu, instead it silently removed the read-only property of that Menu element and set the Label property and saved it.

Complete code snippet:-

node = TreeNode::findNode('\\Menus\\MyMenu');

if (node != null && 2 > 1)

{

node.AOTAllowEdit();

node.AOTsetProperty('Label', 'New Label');

node.AOTsave();

}

With this my query gets resolved. Thanks to all of u guys....

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