Page Creator
Available in Mobile WMS for Dynamics AX/365FO
Is replaced by: Pages - Page Overview
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Mobile WMS uses an application.cfg file to setup the behaviour on the mobile device. When you need to make configural changes to the app, you need to know more about what are the possibilities built-in . On top of that we have made it possibilities. Now it is possible for you to actually make the changes from the AX/D365FO client. |
From the client you can find the page creator by navigating to: Mobile WMS/Setup/Customizations/Page Creator
Pages
The first tab menu you can create the new page. You have select the type of page you want. There are three types:
- Lookup
- Order list or Order lines
- Unplanned item registration
There types are key to the function you are going to need for the page. We have made some templates that can guide you to the correct choice of page. The templates can be found here: ##GL##
On the page tab, you specify the filter if necessary. You can select between filters already in use or newly created filters from the "Dyna Filter" menu. Read more about it here: ##GL##
The icon on the page, see below image in the top left corner, and the icon on the main menu are specified in two different ways.
The icon on a page is specified on the page creator as the "Ressource name".
If you need to change the icon on the main menu, you can do that by navigating to Custom Menu Items from AX/FO or if you have a new class you want use on the mobile device you can also specify it here.
Selecting an icon to be displayed by useing the dropdown list (ressource names). The list is based on the out of the box included icons, but you can also add your custom made icons.
Configuration
On the next tab menu "Configuration", you have lots of the settings available to control the Mobile WMS app.
We have identified 6 groupings with the most commonly used setup.
- Header
- On Successful Post
- On Results Selected
- General
- List
- How do you want to present your data?
- Requests
- Used in lookups and unplanned item registrations
- Lookup - gets registration collection
- Submit - posting method for your request
- Used in lookups and unplanned item registrations
Additional Properties
Here you find extra configuration properties. These properties enhances the app behaivour to your specific requirement.
Menu Items
On the page you are creating you might nedd to have different menuoptions. Depending on the case
Offline
This section is for offline functionalies that can be setup. The page creator is not yet ready for handling offline pages. This has to be handled in a case by case scenario. The intent of this tab, is to inspire offline capabilities built-in the Mobile WMS application.
XML
Your new XML page from within D365FO must be copied and pasted into the application.cfg on the mobile device. The page should be placed under the section called <pages>.
If you need it as a new page you also must create a new <menuitem> also located under <pages>.
website http://schemas.taskletfactory.com/MobileWMS the latest schema for application.cfg is found. The page creator uses this to build pages on the latest functionality from the schema. Below you can see the meaasage that appears after the schema has been refreshed.
From the client you can find the page creator by navigating to: Mobile WMS/Setup/Customizations/Page Creator
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Page creator does not support specific offline specific functionalities. It is outlined in the "Offline" section. |