Creating a modal form
Quite often people who are not familiar with computers and software tend to get lost among open application windows. The same could be applied to Dynamics AX. Often a user opens one form, clicks a button to open another one, and then goes back to the first one without closing the second one. Sometimes this happens intentionally, sometimes not, but the result is that the second form is hidden behind the first one and the user starts wondering why it is not possible to close or edit the first form.
Such issues can be easily solved by making the child form a modal window. In other words, the second form always stays on top of the first one until closed. In this recipe, we will do exactly that. As an example, we will make the ...
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