Form controls

A form design is constructed of a hierarchy of form controls.

Introduction

In Dynamics Ax, forms are designed by adding form controls to a form design to build up the desired visual representation of the data. The various form controls have different purposes: some are used to display data, some to hold other controls, and some to provide entry points to trigger actions in the system.

Form control types

The following form controls are available for use in Dynamics Ax. Not all controls are available in all versions of the application.

Container controls

These types of controls can contain other controls:

• Action pane
• Action pane tab
• Button group
• Grid
• Group
• Tab control
• Tab page control

Edit controls

These types of controls are used to display or edit application data:

• CheckBox control
• ComboBox control
• Date edit
• GUID control
• Int control
• Int64 control
• List box control
• List view control
• Radio button control
• Real edit control
• Reference group control
• Segmented entry control
• Static text control
• String edit control
• Table control
• Time edit control
• Tree control
• DateTime edit control

Button controls

These types of controls are used to trigger actions in the application, such as running a function or opening another form:

• Button
• Command button
• Drop dialog button
• Menu button control
• Menu item button control

Miscellaneous controls

These types of controls are not in one of the above categories:

• ActiveX control
• Animate control
• HTML control
• ManagedHost control
• Progress bar control
• Separator control
• Window control

See also

Form control properties

Runtime form controls