Month: October 2018

Override Action – Confirmation Dialog

Posted on by Sergey Marenich

Hi Everyone, Want to give you an example of how to modify an action in Acumatica. specifically I’ll customize a Release action on Payments and Applications with adding a Confirmation Dialog with conditions. To customize an action we should follow the Acumatica customization guide. In simple words we should do following: Find the original action. Create a graph extension. Redefine the original action with the same parameters. Add own logic in the new action. Call base action code. Base Action Code To find the original Action you can use Source Code browser. Custom Code Your code will be called instead of the base action. You can put your custom code… Read more

Dynamic Drop-Down Control

Posted on by Sergey Marenich

Hi Everyone, Usually Acumatica Drop-Down controls have fixed lists of values. Of course you can use PXStringListAttribute.SetList<…>(…) method do change list of values dynamically, but how to make it more handy. The way I recommend you is to create an attribute that can encapsulate all the field related logic, so to use it you can just put the attribute on the proper place. So the plan: Create an attribute that will be inherited from PXStringList and provide the values Create IPrefetchable class that can be automatically load all possible list from DB and cache it. In the same time Acumatica will auto-reset when the linked table is changed. This is… Read more

Monitor Online Users

Posted on by Sergey Marenich

Hi All, Web technologies work the way where server know almost nothing about where is browser and what is user doing there. Is it active? Is it closed? It is online? Is computer sleeping? We don’t know if there browser does not inform us. Just for example – if you lost internet connection, should we treat this as online or inactive? In Acumatica Online/Offline is just a flag in users table. If users logs in, Acumatica rises this flag, if users is not active for some time, Acumatica clears this flag. This flag is automatically managed by Acumatica but in some cases it may be not in the consistency with… Read more

Send Documents to Printers

Posted on by Sergey Marenich

Hi All, There is an nice function in Acumatica 2018R1 – Device Hub. This service can be installed on any machine where printer is configured/available and automatically pull Acumatica for documents need to be printed. There are a lot of screens who uses this function in the standard Acumatica already, but today I want to give you a quick look on how you can write your custom code and send request to printers. Device Hub First of All device hub should be installed on your computer, connected to Acumatica and configured with Available printers. Printers also should be Configured in Acumatica. Customization Now we can write a bit of code.… Read more

In-Screen Popup Panels with iFrame

Posted on by Sergey Marenich

Hi Everyone, Most probably you have seen the function in Acumatica where you can open a new screen in a iframe on top of the existing screen without navigation. This approach has some benifits and disadvantages. Have inplace pupup helps to have less redirection and less windows, but in the same time it blocks the previous page and you cant modify/see background untill you close the popup. Choose the way you use wisely based on the requiranments and design you have. How to call inline popup? public PXAction<SOOrder> createPrepayment; [PXUIField(DisplayName = “Create Prepayment”, MapViewRights = PXCacheRights.Select, MapEnableRights = PXCacheRights.Update)] [PXButton(ImageKey = PX.Web.UI.Sprite.Main.AddNew)] protected virtual void CreatePrepayment() { ARPaymentEntry target =… Read more