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[Fraser Kidd]

Hi,

We have AX2012 R3 and are using Time and Attendance for our shopfloor workers to clock-in and out each day. Once they have entered there personnel number or scanned their badge the Clock-in Form appears as below.

We don’t want the users to have to click OK as this could cause issues(we try to make this process as simple as possible) so we want the form to stay up for a second or 2 and then disappear ready for the next person. At the moment the form stays up for 6 seconds and then disappears with no user intervention.

Can someone tell me where I can reduce this time to 1 or 2 seconds.

Thanks in advance
Fraser

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Fraser Kidd
Livingston Precision Engineering (Ltd)
Livingston SC
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[Gretchen Garcia]

No idea if there is any way to do that within AX, but what about using something like Auto-Hot Key to detect the window and close it after a few seconds? 🙂

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Gretchen Garcia
IT Technician
Denver Public Library
Denver CO
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[Alex Meyer]

Fraser,

Do you know how you are currently making the form disappear? It is any custom code or native AX?

I would think you would be able to override the init() method of the form put a sleep timer on it and close the form whenever you want by doing something like.

public void init()
{
    super();
    int seconds = 2;
    sleep(seconds*1000);
    element.close();
}

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Alex Meyer
Director of Dynamics AX/365 for Finance & Operations Development
Fastpath
Des Moines, IA
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[Kirk Blackburn]

My brief research suggests that the code to close the form after 6 seconds probably comes from the showClockInfo method of the JmgJobBundle class. This is the AX code in that method:

/// <summary>
/// Shows information about the clock in or clock out to the user.
/// </summary>
/// <param name=”text”>
/// The text to show to the user.
/// </param>
private void showClockInfo(str text = messageText)
{

JmgDialogFormClass dlgForm;

str infoText;

if (showInfo)

{

infoText = text == “@SYS38409” ? “@SYS309981” : text == “@SYS38411” ? “@SYS309982” : ”;

dlgForm = new JmgDialogFormClass(infoText, text, “@SYS5473”, true, 6000, this.parmCallerForm());

dlgForm.openBreakDialog();

}

}

The true on line 14 indicates that the form should close after a certain timeout period. The 6000 on that same line indicates that the timeout period should last for 6,000 milliseconds (6 seconds) before the form closes.

Changing the 6000 to 2000 would accomplish that you desire (closing the form automatically after 2 seconds). But, it requires a code customization….

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Kirk Blackburn
Engineer – Software Development
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Salt Lake City, UT
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