Dynamic text in dialog

Finance and Operations/AX Developer Forum
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I have a dialog and I need to add some text at the beginning. it goes something like “Enter only <tablename.colname> characters”

So the text should display the value in that column of the table

dialog.addtext(“Enter only characters”)

I tried using a + operator, but it gives a syntax error “Operands types are not compatible with the operator” which makes sense as the column in question has integer values. Any suggestions?

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Hi,

try with the strfmt() function instead of passing directly the string.

dialog.addtext(strfmt("Enter only %1 characters",<value in that column>));
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An alternative solution would be converting the integer to string (int2str()), nevertheless strFmt() is indeed the best way for such formatting.

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It works now. Thanks