When you modify the PageTitle property of a new Page Definition to a label with a ‘special’ character in it. You will see that the title is not rendered well. For example when you use a é it will be rendered as é. I logged this case with Microsoft and for the moment there is no … Continue Reading
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Enterprise Portal – strange behaviour with date-picker
Have you ever experienced the following symptoms in the Enterprise Portal: click on a date picker (the date picker is shown) click outside the date picker (the date picker is hidden) finally, you re-click on the date picker Result: you see the message ‘Loading data’ and a ‘error on page’ message appears in the bottom … Continue Reading
System tables – part1
In this post I will talk about some Ax kernel tables that are automatically created after the setup at the first run of Ax. They are typically company independent (no DataAreaId) and contain some valuable information about AX. You can find the tables I wil discuss under the AOT –> System Documentation –> Tables. AccessRightsList … Continue Reading
Batch job performance boost
Did you ever have trouble with the performance of your batch-job? Well maybe this small trick can shorten the time your batch runs. The big idea: Try to split up your gigantic batch in smaller pieces. Launch a batchjob that produces many smaller batchjobs (tasks) that can handle a subset of the data you need to … Continue Reading
Expressions in query ranges – limitations
When you want to construct a query-object that contains OR-conditions, you can construct something like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 queryBuildRange.value(strFmt('((%1 == %2) || ((%1 == %3) && (%4 == "%5")))’, fieldStr(InventTable, ItemType), any2int(ItemType::Service), any2int(ItemType::Item), fieldStr(InventTable, ProjCategoryId), queryValue("Spares")));queryBuildRange.value(strFmt(‘((%1 == %2) || ((%1 == %3) && (%4 == "%5")))’, fieldStr(InventTable, ItemType), any2int(ItemType::Service), any2int(ItemType::Item), fieldStr(InventTable, … Continue Reading
Test if a configuration key is enabled in X++ code
How do you execute code when a Configuration key is enabled? It is pritty easy. Ax x++ has a build-in function ‘isConfigurationKeyEnabled’, witch you can use to check a configuration key. Small example: if (isConfigurationKeyEnabled(configurationkeynum(AIF))) { // Do something… }if (isConfigurationKeyEnabled(configurationkeynum(AIF))) { // Do something… }
List of mandatory fields on a table
When you want a list of all the mandatory field on table X, yould check all the properties on the table fields, or you could be lazy and write a small job that does the trick for you. Just replace TableId with your tablenum. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 … Continue Reading
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook
Just like my colleague Klaas Deforche, I am now reading the ‘Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009 Development CookBook‘ published by ‘Packt Publishing‘ that was published December 2009. It is a verry good book to look up a problem and find the correponding solution. TOC: Preface Chapter 1: Processing Data Chapter 2: Working with Forms Chapter 3: Working … Continue Reading
Code Editor – shortcuts
Underneed you find the list of shortcuts I use most in Microsoft Dynamics Ax while developing. General (shortcuts I also use outside AX) CTRL + S : Save. CTRL + C : Copy text to clipboard. CTRL + X : Cut text to clipboard. CTRL + V : Past text from clipboard. CTRL + A : … Continue Reading
Working with numbersequences – On forms
When you want to implement NumberSequences in a Ax form (new numbersequence when you create a record etc.) you can just implement the ‘numberSeqFormHandler’. Step-by-step:
