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?

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