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June 30, 2014 Make Product Thumbnails Larger To Make
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The product thumbnails within Dynamics AX are great, except for only one thing. The developers
seem to have taken the thumbnail size to the extreme, and they are a little too small to see in detail.
There isn’t a simple flag in the system that allows you to resize the image to make it more readable,
but if you want to live life on the edge, there is a tiny coding change that you can do that will solve the
problem.
You don’t have to be stuck in an episode of Land Of The Giants any more.
How To Do It…
Starting off, by default the thumbnails are just a little too thumbnail.
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To fix the problem, open up AOT, and expand the Classes folder.
Murray Fife
Author, Curator, Visually Impaired Squirrel
Literacy Advocate & Canine and Equine
Choreographer
Murray Fife is a Technical Solution
Professional at Microsoft and Author of over
25 books on Microsoft Dynamics AX including
the Bare Bones Configuration Guide Series
which contains over 15 books that show
novice users host to set up Dynamics AX
using visual walkthroughs. These guides start
off with the Financial modules of Dynamics AX
and then progress through the Operational,
Distribution, and then the more specialized
modules like production, service management,
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and project accounting. You can find all of his
books on Amazon
(www.amazon.com/author/murrayfife) and
also even more on the independent BSP
(www.blindsquirrelpublishing.com) site.
Murray is also the curator of the Dynamics AX
Companions
(www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com) site
which he built from the ground up as a
resource for all of the Dynamics AX
community where you can find walkthroughs
and blueprints that he created since first being
introduced to the Dynamics AX product.
Throughout his 25+ years of experience in the
software industry he has worked in many
different roles during his career, including as a
developer, an implementation consultant, a
trainer and a demo guy within the partner
channel which gives him a great
understanding of the requirements for both
customers and partners perspective.
He is also a great supporter of the Dynamics
AX community and has hosted scores
webinars for the AX User Group
(www.axug.com) and MS Dynamics World
(www.msdynamicsworld.com), and has
Then scroll down until you find the EcoResProductImageManagement class, expand it so that you speaks at Microsoft Convergence and AXUG
can see all of the methods, and then double click on the loadProductImage method. Summit conferences regularly.
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How It Works…
Now when you return to your Released Products list page you have a supersized thumbnail.
Also when you open up the documents form the image is a lot easier to see as well.
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Duncan Gallimore said: This is great – my images are squashed though. How do you get them to be proportional?
April 16, 2015 Thanks, Duncan
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Murray Fife, Curator, Duncan, the only way that I know how to fix that is to make the thumbnails square to start off with… Murray.
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