Customization

Getting started

• Get a mobile hardware device — You must have a mobile device in order develop extensions for Mobile WMS.
• Setting up your AL Development environment — You need to set up a development environment in order to make extensions for Mobile WMS.
• Install the main extension — Set up Development environment
• Creating your first Mobile WMS Extension

Developer Whitepapers

• Whitepaper Accessor tables
• Whitepaper Custom XML Response Extensions
• Whitepaper Understanding Steps
• Whitepaper Use tracking by package number in reservation and tracking system
  • How-to: Enable the Mobile WMS standard implementation for Package Numbers — Learn how to enable the standard Mobile WMS implementation for collecting Package Numbers at Mobile Devices.
  • Case: Create a custom implementation for Package Numbers — A new custom implementation for Package Numbers in Mobile WMS is required to meet demands from other customizations or a vertical solution.

API Documentation

• Introducing the new API and Integration Events
• MOB Base events (Toolbox and Language) — Integration Events for base Mobile WMS application (these events are shared for all planned function Document Types).
• Item Cross Reference / Item Reference — Integration Events for Item Cross Reference and Item Reference.
• ReferenceData — Customize the static Reference Data (data is loaded only once per Mobile Device session).
• Adhoc Registr. — Customize unplanned RegistrationTypes (adhoc functions).
• Lookup — Customize or Handle new Lookup Functions.
• Receive — Customize the Receive functionality.
• Pick — Customize the Pick functionality.
• PutAway — Customize the Put-away functionality.
• Ship — Customize the Ship functionality.
• Move — Customize the Move functionality.
• Count — Customize the Count functionality.
• Phys. Inventory Recording — Customize the Phys. Inventory Recording functionality.
• Print Label — Customize the standard labels include with the Cloud Print Service. 
• Production — Customize the Production functionality.
• Assembly — Customize the Assembly functionality.
• Login
• OrderLock
• LiveUpdate
• Whse. Inquiry
• Deprecated Code

Customization examples

• General — Misc. tools for the developer
  • How-to: Display an Error dialog — You want to stop the process and return display a message to the user
  • How-to: Display a Confirm dialog (ForceWarning) — You want to prompt the user to Confirm a message.
  • How-to: Inspect Request Response XML and Error Call Stack — Use the document queue to inspect the XML data being sent to and from the Mobile devices. Also, error call stacks can be found here.
  • How-to: Load current Mobile Request from any event — The API event parameters does not include all the information you want  
  • How-to: Subscribing to standard events — You may subscribe to posting events in the Business Central base App to process collected values, or when events offered by Extension API does not fit your exact need.
  • Case: Get mobile statistics
  • Case: Post & Print — When posting you want to print standard reports like base functions "Post & Print" does
  • Case: Use your own custom Item Barcode table — A customer wishes to start using there own Item Barcode table when scanning Items on the mobile device.
  • Tutorial: Create a Positive Adjustment function
  • Tutorial: Create your first Mobile WMS-extension
  • Legacy articles
• Planned function — Examples for Planned Functions. Planned functions use Header/Lines and a posting-routine
  • Filter and Sort
  • Use Headers
  • Display Information
  • Make Registrations
  • Post Registrations
• Unplanned function — Examples for Unplanned Functions. Sometimes items get damaged and the inventory needs to be adjusted. These operations are "unplanned"
  • How-to: Create custom Unplanned function in Main Menu — The most common control for customization
  • How-to: Online Validation for Unplanned Step — "onlineValidation" on Steps can instantly validate the entered data, with a call to the back-end
  • How-to: Production Output - Implement a Unit of Measure step — For Items with multiple Unit of Measure codes
  • Case: Add custom step 'To-Location' to Unplanned Move — Add custom step for To-Location when posting Unplanned Move from/to locations without "Directed Putaway-and-pick"
  • Case: Default total RunTime based on produced quantity in Production Output — A customer wants the RunTime step for Production Output to be populated with a default value.
• Lookup function — Examples for Lookup Functions. Lookups display a list of data based on Header fields
  • How-to: Create custom Lookup Function — Adding a new custom Lookup function with one "Header field" to show simple lookup response.
  • Case: Filter Bin Content for specific Serial No. — Filter Lookup Bin Content for a specific Serial No.
• Print Label — Examples for customizing Cloud Print Service
  • How-to: Add new/Copy a label-template — You want to add/create a custom label template with a unique design
  • How-to: Add data to label-template — You want to modify a label template by adding data to it
  • How-to: Modify steps on a label-template — Modify collected steps before a Label-template is printed.
  • How-to: Do not collect printer name — Skip collecting printer name when printing a label
  • Case: Print Label on Planned Function Posting — Print Label on Planned Posting, i.e. Receive, Pick, Put-away, Ship, Move etc.
  • Case: Print Label on Tote Shipping Posting — Print Label on the posting of Tote Shipping.
  • Case: Print muliple labels with unique lot numbers — Option to generate and print multiple unique labels
  • Case: Print muliple labels with unique lot numbers (MOB5.23-MOB5.38) — Option to generate and print multiple unique labels
  • Case: Print your own ZPL labels — Print your own ZPL labels