Adding the View details link

Dynamics AX has a very useful feature, which allows the user to open the main record form with just a few mouse clicks on the current form. The feature is called View details and is available in the right-click context menu on some controls. It is based on table relationships and is available for those controls whose data fields have foreign key relationships with other tables.

Because of the data structure integrity, the View details feature works most of the time. However, when it comes to complex table relations, it does not work correctly or does not work at all. Another example of when this feature does not work automatically is when display or edit methods are used on a form. In those and many other cases, the View details feature has to be implemented manually.

In this recipe, to demonstrate how it works, we will modify the General journal form in the General ledger module and will add the View details feature to the Description control, allowing users...