Have you ever tried to extend an object with the Chain of Command feature introduced with PU 9 and got the “Reference is not set to an instance of an object.” error? TLDR: It’s a bug that is addressed in PU 13. The cause is that there exists a form that is named as your object which you try...
Like stated in the official Im- / Export Model “Docs” article from Microsoft, we can use the ModelUtil.exe to im- / export and delete models in AX 7. But if you take a detailed look at it, you will see it provides you with another option – replace. If you look at my try to get help on the...
While installing a new application package via LCS, I faced an issue where the process was stuck on step 3 (like shown in the screenshot below). No error or failure status was provided and the log was not populated, either. What happened on step 3? When I took a look into the runbook, the process wanted to stop...
In the new developing experience that came along with D365, the parts that I personally miss most, compared with older AX version, are Jobs. Yes, now there are Runnable Classes, but the time it takes to write and execute a Runnable Class makes them very inconvenient in comparison to the “old” Jobs, for example in AX 2012. So...
Today’s plan? I would like to extend the init() method of a D365fO form. The goal is to get the selected line from the caller after the newly opened form is initialized. Form Init Method Extension Like said before, I would like to get the callers record when opening a new form. In this example I will retrieve...
In this post I will going to show you, how to extend the validateField method on a table. As example I used the SalesLine, where I will create a post handler to extend the validateField method. This kind of extensions were already there to be used in AX 2012, but since we have to work only with extensions now,...
In July I posted my first article regarding extending AX 7, where we talked about how to extend a class. Today I would like to show you how to extend a table. In this post we will add a new field and also create a extension class to add a new method to the table. Table Extension –...
One and a half year ago I posted an article which showed how to reset a user session in the Mobile Device Portal inside of the AX WHS module. Today I want to post an update on this issue and show you how to do that in AX 7 / Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Good news...
Today I want to start a small series of blog posts. In this series I would like to show you how to extend AX 7 / D365 objects, without overlayering them, starting with an easy class extension. Class extension 1.0 For this demo I created an extreme simple class, it only contains one method, which just puts out...
Just a quick update on my progress on the Xamarin Challenge. I finished Task #1 – #3 in March and Task #4 & #5 at the end of April. As a result I received my diploma at the beginning of May from Peter Maynard. One can see the diploma in the screenshot below. What is next? The Xamarin...
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