How to get the list of menu with their path

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Posted on by VoltesDev

Hi guys,

I was wondering is there a standard report to get a list of D365 menu, along with their path like (for example : Account Receivables > Customers > All Customers)

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Blue Wang on at

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Hi VoltesDev,

No such report, but you can use New metadata API to get all menu list.

dev.goshoom.net/.../

Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.Xpp.MetadataSupport::GetMenu(menuStr(MainMenu));

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VoltesDev on at

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Hi Blue,

Thanks, but comes to mind, how the Functional (non-developer) can get this then ?

As this is actually more concern for example for assigning security, or for documentation, or user guide.

Just can't believe there is no other way, except have to do some coding just for this.

Thanks,

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Blue Wang on at

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HI VoltesDev ,

Please try this: Task recordings ，But for many menuitems, it seems inconvenient to work.

dynamicspedia.com/.../

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VoltesDev on at

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Hi Blue,

Yes, it is definitely do inconvenient.

Task recorder is good for User guide, but that is my example only. What we really need is list of all menu including customised.

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VoltesDev on at

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Hi Blue,

Found this interesting topic, on the last discussion, it look correct,

community.dynamics.com/.../1084310

But it is says it is limit by 6, and I tried to remark it, looks good but I do still need the path.

The code, while is great, only show menu name (label), so no hierarchy.

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Martin Dráb 237,990 Most Valuable Professional on at

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I see you're discussing the same topic in two threads in parallel, which complicates things a lot. Anyway, you'll find my answers in the other thread.

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VoltesDev on at

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Hi Martin,

Yes, because at first I haven;t found it. But then also because that thread is verified already so I consider it is closed case already.

that's why I put the link it the end.

Thanks,

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alexmeyer.itguy 648 on at

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VoltesDev,

I'm assuming you meant that you want to get a D365 menu item along with their path. There is not a standard report for this but you can get this via code, the code I use to obtain this data is in .NET but can easily be converted to X if needed:

public static ArrayList GetMenuMetadata() { List menuList = new List(); this.searchMenuSubNodes(menuList, TreeNode.findNode(@"\Menus")); return new ArrayList(menuList); } public void searchMenuSubNodes(List menuList, TreeNode _treeNode) { if (_treeNode == null) return; _treeNode = _treeNode.AOTfirstChild(); while (_treeNode != null) { if(_treeNode.AOTfirstChild() != null) this.searchMenuSubNodes(menuList, _treeNode); if(_treeNode.treeNodeType() != null) { MenuMetadata menu = new MenuMetadata(); menu.Path = _treeNode.treeNodePath().Replace("\\Menus\\", ""); menu.Label = _treeNode.treeNodeName(); TreeNodeType type = _treeNode.treeNodeType(); switch (type.id()) { //Menu Items case 307: menu.Name = (string)_treeNode.AOTgetProperty("MenuItemName"); string menuItemType = (string)_treeNode.AOTgetProperty("MenuItemType"); if(menuItemType == "Display") { menu.Type = ((int)Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Metadata.Core.MetaModel.SecurableType.MenuItemDisplay).ToString(); } else if(menuItemType == "Output") { menu.Type = ((int)Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Metadata.Core.MetaModel.SecurableType.MenuItemOutput).ToString(); } else if(menuItemType == "Action") { menu.Type = ((int)Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Metadata.Core.MetaModel.SecurableType.MenuItemAction).ToString(); } menuList.Add(menu); break; //Tile case 332: menu.Type = "Tile"; menu.Name = _treeNode.AOTname(); menuList.Add(menu); break; default: break; } } _treeNode = _treeNode.AOTnextSibling(); } } public class MenuMetadata { public string Path { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string Label { get; set; } public string Type { get; set; } }

It will allow you to get data like the report below:

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ArunGarg 3,926 on at

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HI Alex,

As I can see I need the same type of form for getting all the Menu items with labels and path.

Do we have any function or class shown above to get the data like report .

Best Regards

Arun Garg

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alexmeyer.itguy 648 on at

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Arun,

The report above is generated from an external solution I am a lead developer on (Fastpath Assure) that generates this report by calling a custom service operation endpoint that utilizes the code I provided to create the report. If you wanted to do this in D365FO you could store this data in a physical or temp table and use that as a data source for a form grid.

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