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TrudAX / TRUDUtilsD365

A set of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Visual Studio add-ins that can help you to accelerate the development speed
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Hardcoded labels #5

Open prorook opened 5 years ago

prorook commented 5 years ago

Awesome toolset. Thanks for your hard work. Just throwing an idea out here, but it'd be nice if the tools that generated the labels would accept a parameter of a label file ID, and then tool would automatically create the labels in the label file instead of using literal strings.

TrudAX commented 5 years ago

Thanks. What tool do you refer to? The main idea that these tools should not auto-generate any texts, all values should be taken from the user dialog, so if you specify labels, labels will be used. There are several tools to simplify labels generation: Auto-Label-Generator - https://github.com/SmartBusinessLLC/Auto-Label-Generator/blob/master/README.md Auto create new labels - https://github.com/anderson-joyle/D365O-Addins/wiki/Auto-create-new-labels Ax Label Creator - http://www.axbackup.com/AxLabelCreator/ shashisadasivan/SSD365VSAddIn - https://github.com/shashisadasivan/SSD365VSAddIn Also, the idea to improve the current situation with labels is marked as PLANNED on Microsoft Ideas portal https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/categories/list/?category=edc1769f-1105-e711-8107-5065f38a3bb1&forum=16691718-61e2-e611-8101-5065f38b21f1

prorook commented 5 years ago

The one I've been using is the "Fields builder" from a table. When you give a new field a label value, the literal string is pasted into the label property on the created EDT. It'd be nice if you could specify a label file and language on the "Fields builder" dialog so, for example, instead of the EDT label property being "Export Id", it would create a label value so the EDT label property would be "@LabelFile:ExportId" with "Export Id" as the label text.
I suppose with one of those addins we could just set the label to "@@@Export Id" and run their label generator afterwards, though.

TrudAX commented 5 years ago

Ok, I got it. But just label file and language is not enough. Ax Label Creator, for example, has 12 fields to create a label(I have not used it personally) Yes, the current workaround with adding @@@ looks good