Creating a wizard

Wizards in Dynamics AX are used to help a user to perform a specific task. Some examples of standard Dynamics AX wizards are Report Wizard, Project Wizard, Number Sequence Wizard, and so on.

Normally, a wizard is presented to a user as a form with a series of steps. While running the wizard, all user inputs are stored in temporary memory until the user presses the Finish button on the last wizard page.

In this recipe, we will create a new wizard for creating main accounts. First, we will use the standard Dynamics AX Wizard to create a framework and then we will manually add some additional controls.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps in order to complete this recipe:

  1. Open Tools | Wizards | Wizard.
  2. Click on Next on the first ...

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