Dialogfield - mandatory in Ax 2009

Finance and Operations/AX Developer Forum
1

Hi,

How to make the dialog fields as mandatory. In Ax 4, there is a method mandatory for dialog fields. but in Ax2009 it is not available. How to resolve it.

Pls advise.

Thanks,

Maria

2

Hi Maria,

Check this out for making an dialog field as mandatory

FilePath workFolder;

Dialog dialog;
DialogField dialogField;
FormStringControl formStringControl;
FormGroupControl formGroupControl;
;

dialog = new Dialog( “Test” );
dialogField = dialog.addField( typeid( FilePath ), “Test1” );
formGroupControl = dialog.mainFormGroup();
formStringControl = formGroupControl.controlNum( 1 );

formGroupControl.mandatory( true );

3

Hello,

You are correct that mandatory() method is not available on DialogField objects in AX 2009. To make a dialog field mandatory in a dialog form you can override the validate() method of your class as shown below:

public boolean validate()

{

boolean ret = true;

if (!field)

{

ret = checkFailed(“Enter the field value”);

}

return ret;

}

The field variable is used to store the value entered in the dialog field of the dialog form which you retrieve in the getFromDialog() method.