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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 […]

Using a query with SysLookupMultiSelectCtrl

29 September, 2013 (01:21) | Dynamics AX | By: Howard Webb

If you wish to use the new SysLookupMultiSelectCtrl class there are a few construct methods out there that you can use. If you need to build one using a dynamic query object you can use this construct method, however the problem with this is that the lookup will contain all the fields in your table. […]

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();