Automatically run an AX form on startup

A client just went live on Dynamics AX this month, so YAY to them!

Believe it or not, go-live is not always just pressing a button and sitting back. A few things came up, and I’ll blog them if I think they might be useful. This is the first of these.

The client wanted AX to automatically run a specific form when they started up, rather than having the users navigate (to the clock in/clock out screen). As always, I stand on the shoulders of giants, and borrowed heavily from the internet, including Palle Agermark’s blog , TechNet, and the X++ code itself.

We did it in a two-step process. Number one was to create an xml file to specify what should be run:

<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<AxaptaAutoRun logFile=”C:\temp\AxOpenTimeClock.log”  logToScreen=”false”
version=”6.2″
exitWhenDone=”false”>
<Run type=”displayMenuItem” name=”JmgRegistrationClockInOut”/>
</AxaptaAutoRun>

Number two was to set this xml file as an autorun in the .axc configuration file, using “Command to run at application startup” and Autorun_File:

Now when I log into AX using that configuration file, we see the clock in/out screen!

Happy DAXing!