New Return Order form name?

Question

I'm having difficulty finding the name of the new return order form in AX? When I go to setup I see the form name is: SalesCreateOrder but this is also the name of the form used when I create a new sales order, yet these forms are different so how do they use the same form? The reason being I want to set my DlvMode to mandatory for Sales Orders but not Return Orders. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Many forms in Dynamics AX are used for many purposes because of the similarity of the design for more than one function. SalesCreateOrder is one of these forms.

Forms often change their design and functionality based on parameters passed in through the Args class that define where the form was called from. These parameters are often set on the menu item through which the user accesses the form.

The caller parameter is typically used in one or more classes that the form uses. One such class for SalesCreateOrder is a class called SalesCreateOrderForm. If you look at the construct method of this class, you will see that it constructs differently based on the salesType parameter. If the sales type is a return order, it will construct differently than if it were a sales order.

If I were you, I would check the classes declared in the classDeclaration of SalesCreateOrder and start looking around in there for a good place to put your code.