Page Creator

Available in Mobile WMS for Dynamics AX/365FO

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 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: Dyna Filter

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
  • Choose a list to present your data
• Requests
  • Used in lookups and unplanned item registrations
    • Lookup - gets registration collection
    • Submit - posting method for your request

You can find more details on the configurations here: Mobile WMS App

On that page you would have to first select one of these sub pages "Planned Functions", "Unplanned Functions" or "Lookup functions", before you find the related configurations and the descriptions. Dependng on the type of page you have chosen you get different configurations.

Additional Properties

Here you find extra configuration properties. These properties enhances the app behaivour to your specific requirement.

As a neat help, when you hover over the text of a property you get a helping text, explaining more about what the property can do.

Menu Items

On the page you are creating you might need to have different menuoptions, depending on the case you are building. 

You will be able to arrange the menu items to how they are presented on the context menu and the "press and hold" menu. 

Number of promoted menus is also an option if you want some menus directly on the screen to save an extra click. 

Offline

This section is for offline functionalies that can be setup. The page creator is not yet ready for handling a complete offline setup. 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. 

The best thing to do is to have a meeting with us at Tasklet Factory to discuss the requirements for offline functiontionality. 

In standard Mobile WMS you get offline build-in functionalities like order lines are always offline ready. But in scenarios where you need more offline functions contact us for a discussion on your requirements.

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>.