Show AOS in status bar

November 26, 2009 at 20:04
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There is an option on the ‘status bar’ tab of the options screen (AX button – Extra – Options), that some people think that doesn’t work: Show AOS name.
You can see what I mean on the screenshot below.

Show AOS name

Show AOS name


As you can see, the AOS is clearly displayed at the bottom of the screen in the status bar.
If the option doesn’t work for you, it is because you did not specify the Instance Name in your client configuration, as shown on the screenshot below.
Instance name

Instance name


You’ll have to restart AX for this to be visible in the status bar.

Also note that this doesn’t really show the AOS you are connected to, it merely shows the value you specified in the instance name field in your configuration.

So does this functionality work? Yes, but not as you’d expect.

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  1. Mike

    on April 1, 2010 at 03:56

    That is good to know. Can you change the order that items show up in the status bar?

    Thx

  2. Klaas Deforche

    on April 1, 2010 at 20:27

    Hi Mike.
    I don’t think this is possible, sorry.
    Best regards.

  3. Dilip

    on November 15, 2010 at 11:32

    Good tip mate, Found it to be useful

    Cheers,
    Dilip

  4. DAX Admin

    on March 30, 2011 at 20:36

    This use useful, but I was wondering how you would turn this on for a large group of users. I have looked though groups to see if I can enable for the group, but it would be even nicer if I could make this a default option for all users, and even as you create a new user. Any way to do this?

  5. jon

    on September 24, 2012 at 07:50

    @ DAX Admin – write a job to update the table

  6. Yasir

    on December 17, 2012 at 09:52

    Hi, can you please tell me how can i attach a datasource to the navigation buttons of status bar. and also can i use the navigation buttons according to my own criteria.

  7. Klaas Deforche

    on December 19, 2012 at 11:45

    Hi Yasir,
    I’m not exactly sure what you mean. If you want to customize the status bar by adding you own field, I don’t know of any method to do that.

  8. Shiva

    on October 14, 2014 at 12:54

    Hi Yasir,
    Have you figured out how to add our own field to the status bar on AX??

  9. Jack

    on October 30, 2014 at 11:38

    We have several development environments. For each we have an icon where we add “-development -aos2=AOSSERVER:2712”

    This is quite useless for us, as we don’t use the configuration utility to change our environment. Any other solution for developers to know where are they working?

  10. AdamS

    on November 19, 2014 at 18:53

    Jack,
    You just need that:
    “development -aos2=MyAOSName@AOSSERVER:2712”
    Regards

  11. RT

    on December 10, 2015 at 23:07

    Hello,

    Where is this AOS_DEV value stored in the database and how can you get this value using X++?

    Thanks

  12. RT

    on December 11, 2015 at 18:33

    Hello,

    Is it possible to retrieve the AOS_DEV value using X++?

    Thanks.

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