Another way of displaying custom options

The global system functions, such as pickList(), pickUser(), and so on, allow developers to build various lookups displaying a list of custom options. Besides that, the standard Dynamics AX application contains a few more quite useful functions, allowing us to build more complex lookups of custom options.

One of the functions is called selectSingle(), and it presents the user with a list of options. It also displays a checkbox next to each option, allowing users to select the option. To demonstrate this, we will create a new job that shows the usage of this function.

How to do it...

1. 1. In the AOT, create a new job named SysListSelectSingle:

   static void SysListSelectSingle(Args _args)
   {
   container choices;
   container headers;
   container selection;
   container selected;
   boolean ok;
   choices = [
   ["3.0\nAxapta 3.0", 1, false],
   ["4.0\nDynamics AX 4.0", 2, false],
   ["2009\nDynamics AX 2009", 3, false],
   ["2012\nDynamics AX 2012", 4, true]];
   headers = ["Version...