Displaying a list of custom options

Besides normal lookups, Dynamics AX provides a number of other ways to present the available data for user selection. It doesn't necessarily have to be a record from the database; it could be a list of "hardcoded" options, or some external data. Normally, such lists are much smaller as opposed to those of the data-driven lookups, and are used for very specific tasks.

In this recipe, we will create a lookup of several pre-defined options. We will use a job for this demonstration.

How to do it...

1. 1. In the AOT, create a new job named PickList with the following code:

   static void PickList(Args _args)
   {
   Map choices;
   str ret;
   choices = new Map(
   Types::Integer,
   Types::String);
   choices.insert(1, "Axapta 3.0");
   choices.insert(2, "Dynamics AX 4.0");
   choices.insert(3, "Dynamics AX 2009");
   choices.insert(4, "Dynamics AX 2012");
   ret = pickList(choices, "", "Choose version");
   if (ret)
   {
   info(strFmt("You've selected option No. %1", ret));
   }
   }
   

2. 2. Run the job to view the...