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ActiveX Gantt Chart control in Dynamics Ax

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This article exposes the very less used but two very important features Gantt Chart Reporting (data analysis based on different kind of scheduling jobs) and use of ActiveX controls in Dynamics Ax. I hope you all understand what we can achieve through Gantt Charts. And ActiveX controls are small programs that provide add-on functionality to your application, usually it provides a GUI which can be placed on your forms / reports.

Note: This article is for advance Dynamics Ax users.

Dynamics Ax uses a third party ActiveX control to implement Gantt Charts. The ActiveX control is from NETRONIC, called VARCHART XGantt version 4.1.

So, for our Gantt Chart we will use this ActiveX, this way you will also understand “How to use third party ActiveX controls in Dynamics Ax?“.

For reference, some of the places where this Gantt Chart ActiveX control is used in Dynamics Ax…
Open Project–Project Details form, click Activities button, on Hierarchy form click Inquiry–Gantt

Open Production Order–Gantt form

In this article, instead of writing my own code sample, I will refer Standard Dynamics Ax Shared Project Area for our understanding.

To use this Gantt Activex control, Dynamics Ax provides you some wrapper API classes. Search AOT–Classes for Gantt* classes. I am not going to explain these classes in detail but if you see their names you will understand what they do.

How to use ActiveX control in Ax?

Create Ax form and add your Netronic ActiveX control from the ActiveX browser window.

How to change ActiveX control properties?

  • Open form in Visual Form Designer.
  • Select ActiveX control.
  • In properties window, select Custom property and click on browse button. This will open ActiveX control’s property window.

That’s it, just play with ActiveX properties and the project area I mentioned at the starting of this article. You are ready to use your newly added ActiveX control in Dynamics Ax.

Feel free to post your feedback / comments / queries here.

References:
NETRONIC VARCHART XGantt version 4.1



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