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How to use Menu Name in If statement to perform certain Logic.

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Posted on by Muhammad_Ali 353

Hello All - 

    

We have a trade agreement Menu Item in Ax under Sales and Marketing> Common > customers > all customers
and We have the same Menu Item in Sales and Marketing> Journals > Price/discount agreement journal. Both of these paths open up the same form. Now I have made some customizations on the form which opens up from these menu items but I only want the customizations to work from Sales and Marketing> Common > customers > all customers > Trade agreement and not from this path Sales and Marketing> Journals > Price/discount agreement journal. How Can I do this ? How Can I put a condition which will decide the path which is used to access this MenuItem ?? both the Menuitems use the same caller PriceDiscAdmSearch. 

Thank You-

Muhammad Ali

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    Muhammad_Ali 353 on at

    Im also posting my code the changes I have made are in the comment tags // WF - Muhammad Ali 

    I only want these changes to work when the user uses the path 

    Sales and Marketing> Common > customers > all customers > TradeAgreements

    public void init() // This is the init() method of the forms datasource which is a tempTable.

    {

       PriceDiscAdmTrans PriceDiscAdmTrans;

       super();

       if (priceDiscAdmSearch.parmTmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust())

       {

           tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust.data(priceDiscAdmSearch.parmTmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust());

           tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust.insert();

           tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust_PriceGroupType.enabled(tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust.isForGroup());

           tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust_AccountRelation.enabled(!tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust.isForAll());

       }

       else

       {

           tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust.Module = ModuleInventCustVend::Cust;

           //WF- Muhammad Ali

                 tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust.IncludeAdditionalRelations = NoYes::No;

                 PriceDiscAdmTrans.AccountCode = TableGroupAll::Table;

                 tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust.AccountRelation =  priceDiscAdmSearch.ParamCustAccount();

           // WF - Muhammad ALi

           tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust.insert();

           tmpPriceDiscAdmSearchCust_PriceGroupType.enabled(false);

    }

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    Mea_ Profile Picture
    Mea_ 60,286 on at

    Hi Muhammad_Ali,

    Using element.args().caller() you can get caller form, caller form has args as well, so you can check caller of the caller. and see if it was cust table or not.

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    dynamics developer Profile Picture
    dynamics developer 2 on at

    Hi Ali,

    You can duplicate the menu item to make a copy and use the Parameters property on the menuitem to identify your case.

    for example

    if (element.args() && element.args().parm() && element.args().parm() == "parameterValue")
{
     //statements
}

    Or you can even create an enum with the two form names and use the enumTypeParameter and enumParameter properties to identify you form.
  • dynamics developer Profile Picture
    dynamics developer 2 on at

    Actually you already have two different menu items 'PriceDiscAdmTable_Sales' for Sales and Marketing> Journals > Price/discount agreement journal and 'PriceDiscAdmTable_SalesCreate' for Sales and Marketing> Common > customers > all customers . So just add some value in the parameter property for the second one and use it.

    or just use the suggestion above to identify from caller since that's a more simpler n feasible approach

  • Muhammad_Ali Profile Picture
    Muhammad_Ali 353 on at

    Thank You for the Reply Haris. I have one more question I know we can use element.args().caller() to find the caller form. but what if I want to find the caller of the caller ? Im trying to use element.args().caller().args().caller(); but Im getting the error " The variable is not of Type class ? Can you suggest me something ? Thanks

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    Mea_ 60,286 on at

    Hey Muhammad_Ali,

    You cannot use element.args().caller().args().caller() but you can break it into several lines:

    Object  caller;    

Args    args;

caller = element.args().caller();

if (caller)
{
    args = caller.args();

    caller = args.caller();
}


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    Muhammad_Ali 353 on at

    Thanks for the reply ievgen I tried this approach but at line args=caller.args(); Im getting the error " DialogRunbase object does not have method args" any idea why ? and how I can fix this ?

  • Verified answer
    Mea_ Profile Picture
    Mea_ 60,286 on at

    Yep it's bit more complicated with Dialog. If you will look at main() method of PriceDiscAdmSearch you will see some logic to analyze caller. So you can probably create a variable to store caller or a custom flag to indicate caller of a dialog, then you can create public method on  PriceDiscAdmSearch  to expose new variable and use it inside of the form.

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    dynamics developer Profile Picture
    dynamics developer 2 on at

    Or if you want to avoid complication better use the enum parameter method :)

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