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Ali Raza Zaidi

A practitioner’s musings on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

Dynamics Ax 2012 Technical Side

List of best blog post and article for Customization with extensions. Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

January 5, 2019 by alirazazaidi

Here collection of good articles / blog posts for Extension framework.

I just completed the customization using extension. Initially, it’s really tough for me. But with passage of time and my library of code snippet increased, I  felt the power of extensions over old classic overlay concept. Even I used extension in custom forms instead write old age methods in controls and data sources.

Here are some  links which are very helpful for me and worth to share.

 

Event handling:

 

https://us.hitachi-solutions.com/knowledge-center/customize-dynamics-365-user-interface-extension-event-handler/

https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/newdynamicsax/archive/2016/10/11/code-behind-extension-forms-how-to-add-state-variable-and-override-methods-without-overlayering

 

https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/dynamicsaxconcoction/archive/2017/05/17/d3fo-customizing-interaction-classes-using-extensions

 

https://devserra.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/ax7-using-table-event-handler/

https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/howtodynamics365/archive/2018/04/24/how-to-create-display-method-for-table-extension-in-dynamics-365

https://axility.net/en/access-stuff-in-the-new-event-subscriptions/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Workflow:

http://d365technext.blogspot.com/2018/07/avoid-over-layering-in-development-of.html

 

https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/nareshsdynamicsaxblog/archive/2017/03/15/create-custom-workflow-in-d365-dynamics-365

 

https://devmusings.blog/2018/03/18/custom-workflows-in-microsoft-dynamics-365-for-operations/

 

https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/dynamics365foaxhub/archive/2018/10/06/create-custom-workflow-participant-assignment-provider-type-in-ax-2012

https://workflowax.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/participant-provider-example/

https://www.lexisnexis-es.co.uk/blog/2018/10/22/workflows-in-microsoft-dynamics-365-for-finance-and-operations/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Model:

 

 

https://stoneridgesoftware.com/what-is-the-modelutil-exe-good-for/

 

https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/f/765/t/223547

https://www.cloudfronts.com/model-importexport-in-dynamics-365-operations/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/dev-tools/models-export-import

 

 

Email templates

 

https://www.sikich.com/insight/how-to-email-purchase-orders-in-dynamics-365-for-operations/

 

 

 

Vendor Collaboration:

 

https://gfeaxblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/vendor-collaboration-in-microsoft-dynamics-365-for-finance-and-operations/

 

 

 

Reports through extension:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/analytics/custom-designs-business-docs

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamicsaxbi/2017/01/02/customizing-app-suite-reports-using-extensions/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/analytics/customize-app-suite-reports-with-extensions

 

 

Custom form:

https://dynamicsaxinsight.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/ax7-d365-operations-create-details-master-pattern-form/

 

 

Out of the box workflow labels Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

November 23, 2018 by alirazazaidi

Hi all, this is post is for me. I used to make workflow in Customization, Instead created new labels, I used out the box label for workflow menus

 

menu items labels

@SPS1299 Submit to workflow
@SPS1329 Cancel
@SPS1303 Delegate
@SPS1306 Resubmit
@SPS1301 Reject
@SYS38598 Approve
@SYS109045 RequestChange

@SYS109048 Resubmit

Status enum labels

@SPS1268 not submitted

@SPS1283 Submitted
@SPS1285 Approved

@SYS75939 Draft
@SYS784 Rejected

                    @SYS319813 Cancelled

@SYS319123 InReview

                        @SYS109045                  ChangeRequest

 

Method ‘send’ in COM object of class ‘CDO.Message’ returned error and lesson learned Dynamics Ax 2012 R3.

September 16, 2018 by alirazazaidi

Very interesting scenario we faced in one customization. Requirement was very simple and developer used very code to send Email.

Usually testing will be done on dev box which has both AOS and client installed on same machine. No error occurred and code shipped to production. But when we deploy the code on production server and test the email sent functionality we got following error.




Method ‘send’ in COM object of class ‘CDO.Message’ returned error code 0x8004020F (<unknown>) which means: <unknown>.

After trouble shoot we found that when we run the AX client from another machine pointing to AOS this error occurred. There is some network security issue which did not access rights to SMTP server while running code from Client.

So what is solution. Then we explore how Ax send email. What is out of the box solution.

We found that in out of the box functionality, AX did not send email immediately,  Instead, they stored required information in some tables and then Batch sent emails on Server.

So We changed our design and new code just inject information into out of the box tables and emails goes with out of box batch job. Only attachment part was little bit tricky.

Recommendation and lesson learned that, instead calling Smtp server directly on code, we have to use out of the box functionality and just integrate it.

Email sending to customer/vendor using built-in functionality in ax 2012
http://www.schweda.net/blog_ax.php?bid=454&vtid=YXgzMA==

Trying:exec BudgetControlCheckBudgetProc :BudgetControlCheckBudgetProc: Dynamics Ax 2012 R3

July 10, 2018 by alirazazaidi

Hi all I faced this error on Production server.  Error occur when User Post Purchase Invoice.

[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]BudgetControlProcessProc ( in
SysRaiseErrorProc): Trying:exec BudgetControlCheckBudgetProc :BudgetControlCheckBudgetProc:
Trying:Initial insert #BSTDStage – BudgetSourceTrackingDetail:String or binary data would be
truncated.(8152) at line 369 at line 67

 

 

Solution: I found out of box length of Purchase Invoice number is 20. Some one extend the length and it is used notes like functionality. But extension of length did not reflect on BudgetControlCheckBudgetProc.

When we enter the Purchase Invoice number value as 20. Invoice is posted without error.

 

 

 

Updating Date Effective Tables in AX 2012, Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

May 21, 2018 by alirazazaidi

I was struggling to update Date Effective Table in Dynamics Ax 2012 R3. At least one hour of struggle, finally I update the required record.

 

Only good post which helps is by Agnela GoldBrg.

 

http://ibisinc.com/blog/updating-date-effective-tables-in-ax-2012/

 

One line tip from this post is on Date Effective table, The active record reference can be get with  of

DateTimeUtil::utcNow()

 

Its really small tip, yes learning and solving problem at hand waste hours.

 

Lets take a real world example We have to update Job detail with X++.

 

For HCMJobDetail table following way works for me.

 

hcmJobDetail=    HcmJobDetail::findByJob(hcmJob.RecId,DateTimeUtil::utcNow(),DateTimeUtil::utcNow(),true);

 

We can query on required table  with following  way

 

_validFrom = DateTimeUtil::utcNow();

_validTo =DateTimeUtil::utcNow();

 

select ValidTimeState(_validFrom, _validTo) hcmJobDetail

where hcmJobDetail.Job == _job;

 

 

The complete code snippet which works for me is here.

 

 

HcmJobDetail hcmJobDetail;

HcmJob hcmJob;

HCMJOBID  _id=’XyZ’;

date dateToday,

 

hcmJob = HcmJob::findByJob(_id);

 

_validFrom = DateTimeUtil::utcNow();

_validTo =DateTimeUtil::utcNow();

 

select ValidTimeState(_validFrom, _validTo) hcmJobDetail

where hcmJobDetail.Job == _job;

 

 

hcmJobDetail=    HcmJobDetail::findByJob(hcmJob.RecId,DateTimeUtil::utcNow(),DateTimeUtil::utcNow(),true);

if (hcmJobDetail!=null)

{

try

{

ttsBegin;

 

hcmJobDetail.validTimeStateUpdateMode(ValidTimeStateUpdate::Correction);

hcmJobDetail.SL_TempEndDate = today();

hcmJobDetail.SL_TempStartDate = today();

hcmJobDetail.Note = ” test and test”;

 

hcmJobDetail.update();

 

ttsCommit;

}

catch

{

ttsAbort;

HcmJob::CheckFailed(‘ Unable to update job’);

//    status  = SL_EntityStatus::Error;

}

}

}

 

 

}

System.Net.ProtocolViolationException: Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type. Dynamics Ax 2012 Json Service

May 9, 2018 by alirazazaidi

The piece of code you wrote, take long way to reach production server. And usually different errors occurs when we take code one server to other.  I test restful service code C# class and call it form X++  code multiple times and it works perfectly fine on QA. But when I took same code to Uat server it started throw following error

System.Net.ProtocolViolationException: Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type.

 

And why the same code works perfectly on DEV while calling same service method UAT throw errors.

 

 

 

 

Any how I found that I missed the request. Method = Post  in code snippet I used for service call. something like

 

request.Method = “POST”;

Parameter _reportName cannot be null or empty. Dynamics Ax 2012 R3

March 19, 2018 by alirazazaidi

Hi, All, After Incremental CIL,  errors started to appear on controller classes. These are all those classes where report Name is mentioned in code. Error message in compilation as below.

Parameter _reportName cannot be null or empty.

When we compiled respected class, This error move to next controller class. After compiling number of classes. Finally We decided to compile the all classes by right click on Classes node of AOT.

Compilation of all classes in AX resolved the issue.

 

Team Explorer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 not found for Code merge Dynamics Ax 2012 R3 apply update

December 19, 2017 by alirazazaidi

I was apply patch on Dynamics AX 2012 R3. During update checklist process. I found, Code merge check box was disabled. Message described that we need Team Explorer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 to enable it.


Microsoft Official download link was not working.  I downloaded it from here, And it works for me.

https://download.freedownloadmanager.org/Windows-PC/Team-Explorer-for-Microsoft-Visual-Studio-2012/FREE-

 

Remember, the above link is unauthenticated and third party, download it on your own risk. But some how the other we need to download it.

Table in which Update check list placed in Dynamics Ax 2012

December 19, 2017 by alirazazaidi

Hi, I did multiple update in Dynamics Ax 2012 R3. Some times update Checklist disappeared, Some times it did not go, it struck. For reference

enable / disabled MinorUpgrade in  ReleaseUpdateConfiguration to enable or by pass update checklist.

 

Relation between VendPackingSlipJour and PurchParmTable Dynamics Ax 2012 R3

December 7, 2017 by alirazazaidi

Couple of days ago, I was helping a young developer. Who was doing some customization. He added some customization in PurchParmtable and want information in VendPackingSlipJour Table.

It was very strange that there is no direct relationship between vendPackingSlipJour and  PurchParmTable.

 

After Exploring I found that There is ParmId field in VendPackingSlipVersion table.

And we can get VendPackingSlipVersion by static method with PurchId and PackingSlipId, DeliveryDate.

 

This ParmId has relation with PurchParmTable.

I wrote down following code snippet to get Value from PurchParmTable, with respect to VendPackingSlipVersion.

 

 

 

display real _netWeight()
{
PurchParmTable _purchParmTbl;
parmid _id;
_id=VendPackingSlipVersion::findFromInterCompanyPackingSlip((this.PurchId),
(this.PackingSlipId),(this.DeliveryDate)).ParmId;
select *from _purchParmTbl where _purchParmTbl.ParmId==_id;
return _purchParmTbl.NetWeght;
}

 

Hopes this help

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