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I really encourage you to work with the new navigation pane in 4.0. When you get accustomed to it, I think it’s much better to work with than the old menu and with the coming improvements in 4.0 SP1 (like auto hide) it is really a great tool.

Some people however prefer to work with the old menu and even if I personally believe it is just a matter of getting to know the navigation pane, I’m going to offer you a little modification you can apply if you want to continue to work with the old menu. Of course things can change and the modification described here may not work in future versions.

The old menu still exists and serves as meta data for the navigation pane.

Dynamics AX allows you to open a specific menu when starting the client. Go to Tools \ Options \ General tab and check out the field “Start menu”. The lookup for this field will however not show the main menu. You need to customize the user options form in order to make the main menu selectable from this lookup.

Open the AOT, find the form SysUserSetup, open the method getMainMenuItems and comment out line number 35, saying: mainMenuItems.add(#mainMenuNodeName);

Finally save the form with your change.

Now you can select the main menu from user options and have it open automatically when you start Dynamics AX. You can hide the Favorties and Navigation panes by clearing the checkmarks in the View menu if you want.

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  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2006
    Old main menu in DAX 4 is good feature, but it appears only when you start AX 4. If you closed main menu during work, how you can open it again (you do not have special button for it as in 3.0)?

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2006
    Good question. I tried to look at the menu you can see from File / Open / Menus but this list is maintained by the kernel and will only show menus that are not related to main menu or is the main menu. You could add a menu reference to the main menu in the GlobalToolsMenu. This way you can open the menu from Tools, but since the menu now is referenced within an outer menu it will not look as expected. Does anyone have a better suggestion? Best regards, Palle

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2009
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