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 –...
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...
While creating a few Data Entities in Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX 7) I crashed in the “Natural key not found” error. This error just tells us, that our table is missing a key, that is not a RecId. In this post I want to show you how to setup a Data Entity and also how to resolve that...
In this post I want to show you a quick and dirty way to open a folder via X++ in AX 2012. Open a Folder in AX 2012 I added the following code at a Button in the clicked method like this. All it takes to open a folder via X++, is the DocumentManagementHelper class and its static method...
In this post I want to show, how easily you can utilize the Thread class in AX 2012. Simple Thread example First we want to setup a new class. Next we want to add two static methods, one “slow” method which will use a sleep to simulate a lengthy runtime and one “fast” method. The idea here is that...
In this short post I want to highlight how you can get the name of the client which is connected to AX 2012, even if you run your session via a RDP connection. For this purpose I wrote a small Job, that outputs the client name in an Infolog. Code The first Info invokes the static global method...
To add or modify the “View Details” menu entry, on a right click in the frontend of AX 2012, you can override the so called jumpRef() method. This can be extremely helpful, if you want to present another form, as the standard defined on table level or if you just want to add the functionality at all. As an...
In this quick post I want to show you how to get the actual user language, the language of the current company and the system language in AX 2012 via X++. Languages in AX 2012 To get the actual company language you can call the static method languageId from the CompanyInfo table, which will return a LanguageId. (CompanyInfo::languageId –...
In this short post I would like to show you, how to play around with dates in AX2012, for the beginning let’s just manipulate a given utcDateTime, later we will see how to convert dates to utcDateTime. To do so, the class DateTimeUtil is a good point to look at. Add a year, month, day, hour, minute or second to...
The error message: The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element. What is the cause? When you setup your AIF Service in AX2012 (basically a WCF service), you can also define an property called MaxReceivedMessageSize for your binding. The problem is, the MaxReceivedMessageSize...
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