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Open form via its AOT name in D365 Finance & operations

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  For developers, it can come handy if they can directly open the form via its AOT name in D365 finance & operations rather than opening via its menu item. To do so, you can simply search in the search bar by typing   form:<form AOT name> For example, users management form AOT name is PurchTable . When it is searched, all its references in ERP will be provided as search suggestion.

How to do string left or right padding in X++

This article will explain how you can do string padding with zeros or space with the specified length either left padded or right padded in X++. Often we have a requirement that the desired string should be of specific length (say 10) and if it is not of that length, it should be prefixed with 0. A practical example would be that we need to export bank or vendor txt file with the specific configuration at desired places for a string with a specific length from ERP. To do left padding,  strRFix   function can be used and to do right padding,  strLFix   function can used Syntax str strRFix(str _str,int _length,char _char= ‘ ‘) str strLFix(str _str,int _length,char _char= ‘ ‘) str value = 'Demo' ; //strRFix Info(strRFix(value, 7 , '0' )); // this will info '000Demo' Info(strRFix(value, 7 )); // this will info '   Demo' // 3 parameter is optional with default value of space   //strLFix Info(strLFix(value, 7 , '0' )); //this will info