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How can I get access to UI controls (Buttons, ComboBox, Checkbox, etc) from X++. I want programmatically change statements for these elements and can't find detail instruction for this. Anyone can help me?
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I don't know how to describe a business requirement for this issue. I think a business requirement didn't complete. I have to have a long discussion with the user for more details. At this moment I have only technical interpretation and unclear business requirement, but the technical solution was found.
This solution was useful in my case. This is not a direct answer to my question, but it helps me solve a problem.
Your previous description is definetely not a business requirement, it's some kind of a technical interpretation of it. I'm sure your customer did not ask you to do that, instead they have some natural language description on what the user should be able to do and see in the system. And knowing that requirement would help me help you better.
Is this something that should happen real time between the two forms? Or is your checkbox more like a parameter that should control the allowEdit property across the system, for all users (not only on currently opened form for the current user)?
If former, please check this discussion, it shows how you can call code of Form2 from Form1. But you must open Form1 with a button from Form2 or otherwise you don't have any handle that would allow you to do it. You can only call methods of forms if you have a handle to the active instance of the form.
dynamicsuser.net/.../calling-method-on-a-caller-form
If latter, your init method of Form2 should check the value of the checkbox from the database, and set the allowEdit of the field to yes/no accordingly.
I'm still not sure if I understand your question, though. Could you share your business requirement?
My business requirement is:
The Form::Form1 contains the Combobox::combo_select. When a user in the combobox selects specific item in the Form::Form2 the algorithm has to change Checkbox::Deprication.AlowEdit = false
Form1: AOT/Forms/Form::Form1
Combobox: AOT/Forms/Form::Form1/Designs/Design/TabPage::Tab2/Group::Group6/Combobox::combo_select
Form2: AOT/Forms/Form::Form2
Checkbox::Deprication: AOT/Forms/Form::Form2/Design/TabPage::Tab2/Group::Group1/Checkbox::Deprication
No, you can't access the control from outside the form. Or, you can, if you have handle to the formRun instance, but you don't have that in the validateWrite method of that table. And that's definetely a wrong place for your code.
You need to understand that you want to change the property for one instance of the form, in runtime. Not in the AOT definition of the form. Otherwise you would be doing development (metadata) changes in a live system for all users every time the validateWrite of the table was triggered. I'm sure that's not what you intend to do, right?
Could you share your business requirement?
If you want to change the form controls at runtime, you need to write your code in the form. For example in the validateField method of the form data source. The validataWrite of the table doesn't know anything about your form, and the formRun is not in the scope for the validateWrite method.
Except, I don't think you should use validateField for that, since that method is intended for validating data, not manipulating the UI. But since I don't know your business requirement, I can't propose any exact solution for you.
I set AutoDeclaration of Checkbox to Yes.
For example:
My table name is RAssetStandarts. The form resides AOT/Forms.
AOT/Forms/Forms::RAssetStandarts/Designs/Design/TabPage::General/Group::DepricationGroup/CheckBox::Deprication
I find this object in AOT but I don't know how to change properties of CheckBox via X++
I want to get access to this field from AOT/Data Dictionary/Tables/RAssetTable/valdateField
validateField is a source file.
So, you have a control of name Checkbox.
1. Set AutoDeclaration of your Checkbox to Yes
2. In x++ code: Checkbox.allowEdit(false) .
Like I wrote, you can use the control name directly in code, so I don't understand how you "don't know how to navigate to this element via x++". Could you give more information?
Also, if your checkbox is actually bound to a field in the data source, you can also use:
I try to set the properties for CheckBox.AlowEdit = false for specific form. I don't know to get access to specific CheckBox and properties for it. I know specific Name of form. I know Name of specific CheckBox but I don't know how to navigate to this element via X++.
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