Ali Raza Zaidi

A practitioner’s musings on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

Tips and tricks

Enum value to Table Insertion Dynamics Ax 2012 R3, D365 for operations

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Let me share you a small tip, During customization We extend out of box Enum for classification. Later client requirement is extensive usage of new Values for classification. For adding new values in enum results dependency on technical person . So we did customization and provide form and custom table so he can create number of values as he want. But now next challenge was, copy enum values and labels in Custom table, So He can use these value instead create again. I used following code snippet to copy data from Enum and insert into Custom table. Hopes this helps.

 

EnumId   enumId   = enumNum(LedgerPostingType);

DictEnum dictEnum = new DictEnum(enumId);

int      _NoOfValueInEnum = dictEnum.values();

int      counter;

CustomTable  _header;

delete_from _header;

for(counter = 0; counter < _NoOfValueInEnum; counter ++)

{

_header.ReportHeaderCode = dictEnum.index2Label(counter);

_header.Description = dictEnum.index2Label(counter);

_header.SortOrder=0;

_header.EnumValue = dictEnum.index2Value(counter);

_header.insert();

 

}

Customization in Dynamics 365 for operation (Dynamics AX, AX 7) – Part 8 Tree Control

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Recently I complete the custom Inquiry for Dynamics Ax 2012 R3. That customization is extensive and based on Tree control. Now I did experiment with Tree view control  in Dynamics 365 for operation and output will share here.  For this post I used Dynamics 365 for Operation Update 4 Vm with contoso data.

Suppose we need to build tree Where Sale order Number came as parent and Customer account is as its child node. There is thousand possibilities, but I use simplest way. So first step to add form. Then add tree control it. Set Form Name and Auto declaration property to true. So we can access control in code behind.

 

Next step is to insert following code snippet initial method.

 

 

public class frmTreeViewTest extends FormRun

{

/// <summary>

///

/// </summary>

public void init()

{

SalesTable _Table;

TreeItemIdx _TreeItemid;

 

 

super();

 

MyTreeView.deleteAll();

MyTreeView.lock();

while select * from _Table

{

// _TreeItemid = SysFormTreeControl::addTreeItem(MyTreeView, _Table.SalesId + " : " + _Table.CustAccount ,FormTreeAdd::Root,  _Table.RecId);

 

_TreeItemid = SysFormTreeControl::addTreeItem(MyTreeView, "Sales Order :" + _Table.SalesId ,FormTreeAdd::Root,  _Table.RecId);

SysFormTreeControl::addTreeItem(MyTreeView, " Customer Account : " + _Table.CustAccount ,_TreeItemid ,  _Table.RecId);

 

SysFormTreeControl::expandTree(MyTreeView,_TreeItemid);

 

 

 

}

}

 

}

 

Its works for me.

 

 

 

For rest Limit is only sky. Happy development.

Data Manipulation tip 5. Like operator wild card in Select query Dynamics ax 2012 D365 for Operations.

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Currently I am writing an Inquiry for Client. For this inquiry I have to use Like operator functionality. For example end user wants to search Sale Orders. For this he/she enters the partial sale order number and Inquiry provides the result.

Microsoft provides “Like operator” functionality , I used it with text box in below code snippet. Suppose strProcumentValue is string edit control with auto declaration true.

 

 

void clicked()

{

PurchTable  _Table;

 

 

super();

 

 

select * from _Table where _Table.PurchId like “*” + strProcumentValue.text() +”*”;

 

if (_Table !=null)

{

 

info(“found”);

 

}

}

Its works for me,

reference: http://daxdude.blogspot.com/2011/02/use-x-wildcard-like-and-not-like-in-x.html

Special character In Query range, Dynamics ax 2012 R3 and DFO 365 for operation.

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Yesterday I got very interesting issue. So When put filter on color, config, style and size. A strange error occur. Filter works for 99% of records but on 1 percent time out occurs. When we dig deep into issue, we found that End user, used the special character ‘(‘ in style. And when we execute the filter on dim of special character reports goes toward timeout. It means some infinite loop occurs.

Our code snippet was

 findOrCreateRange_W(query.dataSourceTable(tableNum(InventDim)), fieldNum(InventDim, InventStyleId)).value(InventDimParm.InventStyleId);

Later we found that queryValue is missing in our statement. That was the reason statement was goes into infinite loop.

The correct statement is below as.

  findOrCreateRange_W(query.dataSourceTable(tableNum(InventDim)), fieldNum(InventDim, InventStyleId)).value(queryValue(InventDimParm.InventStyleId));

Data manipulation tip 4 Dynamics ax 2012 and D365 of Operations Insert_recordset

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During report development we populate temp table and bind it to SSRS report. And most of the time we were doing one to one mapping inside while loop or query run loop., Kindly consider following code snippet.

While select sum(Qty) from Inventtrans group by 
ItemId, InventDimId , DatePhysical
Where datePahyical > _fromdaet
&& datePhayical <_todate
{
Tmp.ItemId= inventrans.ItemId;
Tmp.IventDim = inventtrans.InventId;
Tmp.Qty = inventtrans.QTY;
Tmp.Insert();

}

But if we replace loop with Insert_RecordSet , report execution time reduce much. Consider following code snippet used to replace loop with Insert_Recordset

Insert_recordset Tmp (ItemId,InventdimId,QTY)
Select forceplaceholders ItemId, InventDimId, sum(QTY)
From inventtrans
Group by ItemId,InventDimId
Where datePahyical > _fromdaet
&& datePhayical <_todate;

Data manipulation tip 2 Dynamics ax 2012 and D365 of Operations Table initialization method.

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If we consider the following code snippet.
CustSalesQty _temp1,_temp2;
_temp1.IntQty=100;

_temp1.CustAccount =”Cust00001″;

_temp1.insert();

_temp1.IntQty=200;

_temp1.insert();

 

_temp1.IntQty=300;

_temp1.CustAccount =”Cust00003″;

_temp1.insert();

while select * from _temp1

{

_temp2.data(_temp1);

_temp2.insert();

 

 

 

}

 

while select * from  _temp2

{

info( ” _temp2 with ” + _temp2.CustAccount + ” ” + int2Str(_temp2.IntQty));

 

}

 

 

}

You can check that when we insert the temp1.inQTY=200, We did not set Customer account. At result record new record will insert with customer Cust00001 . You can see output of above code

 

 

Point is simple, We need to initialize the table before populate for next values.  I found this scenario in custom Inventory reports. When we populate data in different fields based on issue status.

You can set initialized values after ate in side query execution loop. But that piece of code belongs to specific location.

Microsoft provide the out of the box base initValue method. You can add this method by following way.

Best practices says you have to initialize value in this method. And call this method with table reference. This way initialization is table dependent not class dependent.

 

So we can over write the code as follow

public class CustSalesQty extends common

{

/// <summary>

///

/// </summary>

public void initValue()

{

super();

this.IntQty =0;

this.CustAccount =””;

}

 

}

Now above code snippet will works as

class Job123

{

/// <summary>

/// Runs the class with the specified arguments.

/// </summary>

/// <param name = “_args”>The specified arguments.</param>

public static void main(Args _args)

{

CustSalesQty _temp1,_temp2;

_temp1.initValue();

_temp1.IntQty=100;

_temp1.CustAccount =”Cust00001″;

_temp1.insert();

_temp1.initValue();

_temp1.IntQty=200;

//  _temp1.CustAccount =”Cust00002″;

_temp1.insert();

_temp1.initValue();

_temp1.IntQty=300;

_temp1.CustAccount =”Cust00003″;

_temp1.insert();

while select * from _temp1

{

_temp2.initValue();

_temp2.data(_temp1);

_temp2.insert();

 

 

 

}

 

while select * from  _temp2

{

info( ” _temp2 with ” + _temp2.CustAccount + ” ” + int2Str(_temp2.IntQty));

 

}

 

 

}

 

}

Data manipulation tip 1 In Dynamics ax 2012 and D365 Of Operations Data copy method.

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Currently I am doing Report development project, I got some tips for Data manipulation , these tips I recently learned.

 

Copy data from one table buffer to other of same type.

 

 

During report development, We usually populate  temp table with result of Query execution. Usually we need copy of same data for aggregate functions.

 

Instead map each field of buffer with each other. We can copy the whole data by using .data method.

 

 

Suppose we have custom temp table CustSaleQtyTmp which we need to copy from one buffer to other.

class DataManipulationJob
{
/// <summary>
/// Runs the class with the specified arguments.
/// </summary>
/// <param name = "_args">The specified arguments.</param>
public static void main(Args _args)
{

CustSaleQtytmp _temp1,_temp2;
_temp1.IntQty=100;
_temp1.CustAccount =”Cust00001″;
_temp1.insert();
_temp1.IntQty=200;
_temp1.CustAccount =”Cust00002″;
_temp1.insert();

_temp1.IntQty=300;
_temp1.CustAccount =”Cust00003″;
_temp1.insert();
while select * from _temp1
{
// Instead copy like this we can use Data method
// _temp1.CustAccount = _temp2.CustAccount;
// _temp1.IntQty = _temp2.IntQty;

_temp2.data(_temp1);
_temp2.insert();

}

while select * from _temp2
{
info( ” _temp2 with ” + _temp2.CustAccount + ” ” + int2Str(_temp2.IntQty));

}
}

}

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Code permission Error, SSRS report missing. Dynamics Ax 2012 R3.

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Today after Db resorted form Production / live server, Full CIL failed, And During compilation I found very strange error.

Error described that ” Code Permission Error” And It pointed to out of box SSRS report.

Interestingly a junior developer added customization on report. And there is no error on report.

Finally I found that that report has some out of the box Design for different country localization. Junior developer add customization and delete rest of Designs. So solution is restored the original. Report again deployed, Compiled and error resolved.