The Adaptive Markup Language, sometimes referred to as Aras Markup Language, serves as the backbone of Aras Innovator. Almost every action that a user performs in the client sends an AML request to the Aras Innovator server to process the business lo…

Whether it's enabling administrators to create custom Forms or change the default user interface through CUI, Aras Innovator allows for easy configuration of the out-of-the-box client. However, there are still times when a particularly complex UI wil…

In previous blog posts, we've covered how to use CUI to create custom menu buttons. The example covered in that post was for a button that always needed to be available, but there are times when we may want a custom action to be available only under…

Debuggers are one of the post powerful tools available to developers. Today we'll be going over how you can use your browser and Visual Studio to debug any method code inside of Aras Innovator. Debugging a Client Method JavaScript methods are the...

In 11.0 SP11, type-ahead was introduced to List and Item fields to make editing forms easier and more convenient for Users. When a user types in one of these fields, a dynamic list of options will be shown based on what the user has typed in to the f…

What is Hacktoberfest? Every October, GitHub and Digital Ocean team up to host Hacktoberfest, a month-long campaign to encourage contribution to open source projects. The event runs from October 1- October 31, and is open to all GitHub users and proj…

Simple AML queries can be broken down into three parts: the ItemType that you want to affect, the action that you will use, and the properties that will feed into that action. However, there is no requirement that the properties you specify for your …

A common use case is to have certain fields on a form be dependent on another field. In order to avoid confusion, you may want to enable or disable these fields unless a certain value is selected. Today we'll cover how to dynamically enable and disab…

In previous releases of Aras Innovator, it was possible to download multiple files to a client machine at one time. However, with the move away from .NET Controls in 11.0 SP9, access to the client's file system became limited. In today's blog post, w…

There are times when only a handful of items make sense for a specific Item property. In these cases, you'll likely want to avoid any potential confusion and display only those items in the results of the Search Dialog. Today we'll be going over an e…

In previous blogs posts, we've learned how to add a new button to our menus as well as add new keyboard shortcuts. Both of these lessons are great when we want to allow our users to perform new kinds of actions, but how do we prevent our users fr…

Two powerful solutions were introduced into the Aras Platform in 11.0 SP10: Query Builder (QB) and Tree Grid View (TGV). QB is a tool for building powerful, reusable AML queries using a graphical user interface. TGV displays the results of one of the…

There are times when you want to ensure that the values entered for a property follow a specific format. The most common example of this would be ensuring that phone numbers have the correct number of digits. Today we'll be covering how you can a...

We've previously covered how you can utilize CUI to add custom buttons to toolbars. However, you can also take advantage of CUI to add keyboard shortcuts for more advanced users. In this blog post, we will cover how to add a shortcut to select ..…

In a another blog post, we covered how to open dialogs within Aras Innovator using custom forms and HTML pages. However, Aras Innovator also supports a number of built-in dialogs that offer common functionality. A previous blog post also covers ...

There are times when the fields on a single form are not enough to provide the full functionality you want available to your users. In these cases, you may need to display a dialog that prompts your users to enter some additional information. Aras In…

As you may have read in our recent blog post, Aras Labs is participating in Hacktoberfest 2017! The purpose of this post is to cover how exactly you can go about making contributions to Aras Community Projects. Introduction Community Projects are gen…

With the introduction of CUI in Aras Innovator 11.0 SP7, you can now manage the appearance and functionality of the User Interface directly through the Aras Innovator client. In this post, we will learn how to use CUI to add a custom refresh button t…