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“MMANDBA+” rather than file in the AX client

30 January, 2015 (14:48) | Dynamics AX | By: Howard Webb

Recently we have had an issue whereas in the AX client the “File” in the top left drop down was replaced with the text “MMANDBA+”, the tools option was not available and there were a number of other odd errors:       A few co-workers investigated this and found that the issue is down […]

Reprinting invoices using printJournal

29 August, 2014 (14:12) | Dynamics AX, SSRS | By: Howard Webb

If you need to reprint a sales invoice there is a method on the CustInvoiceJour table called printJournal. Calling this method will print using the original print management destination but you can override the destination by passing in an instance of SalesInvoiceJournalPrint. Below is an example of calling it and forcing the print destination to […]

Counting the number of records in a query/query run

17 August, 2014 (15:53) | Dynamics AX | By: Howard Webb

Hi,   This post is more for my memory more than anything else. If you need to get the number of records returned in a query or a query run you can use the following method: SysQuery::countLoops(QueryRun)   This will return the same result as looping through the query using queryRun.next()

Printing external customer statements to multiple file names

10 June, 2014 (11:02) | Dynamics AX, SSRS | By: Howard Webb

One of our customers produce multiple PDF files for external customer statements. They wished to rename the file with the customer account number. To do this we have edited the following method:   \Classes\CustAccountStatementExtController\runPrintMgmt   I declared the following variables   To make sure that I get just the file name correctly I have used […]

Using date effective tables in a view

7 May, 2014 (14:13) | Dynamics AX | By: Howard Webb

When writing a select statement or using a query you do not have to worry about if the table is a date effective table or not, the frame work handles this for you and will as default return the record that is current. If you are using a view however you need to do a […]

Display/Edit method caching

4 March, 2014 (10:54) | Dynamics AX | By: Howard Webb

When developing a new form or a new table that will have display or edit methods we should be thinking about how costly these types of methods are. Adding lots of these methods to a form can cause a large delay in opening and refreshing as these methods are recalculated every time a refresh is […]

Drill through on SSRS reports.

28 February, 2014 (15:48) | Dynamics AX, SSRS | By: Howard Webb

Drill through links in SSRS are controlled by C# code which produces a URL that can be processed to call AX which can open a form with the appropriate record. There is a common class (DrillThroughCommonHelper) that will need to be either referenced or modified if you would like to use a lookup in Your […]

Navigation links within a SSRS report

27 February, 2014 (16:38) | Dynamics AX, SSRS | By: Howard Webb

If you are developing a larger auto-design report which groups data together it might be worth adding document navigation to the query to allow the end user to jump between sections of the report:     To do this you will need to set up grouping on your table to allow the jumping. The label […]

Accessing and setting the SSRS print destinations

29 September, 2013 (00:57) | Uncategorized | By: Howard Webb

The SSRS print destinations are stored on the report’s contract and can be accessed and set with the following code on the controller: controller.parmReportContract().parmPrintSettings();