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In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, a new X++ Editor is introduced which replaces the current legacy editor. The new X++ Editor is based on hosting a Visual Studio 2010 Editor Framework control.

Here are a few Tips & Tricks:

• Type ‘main’ + TAB: The editor generates a standard Main-method.
  Note: This trick works with all templates (right-click –> Add-in –> Template)
• Type ‘///’ on the top of a method. When you do so you get the standard header for generating XML-documentation.
• While the intellicense drop-down is shown press CTRL. The drop-down dialog becomes transparent.
• CTRL + ‘c’ at the begin of the line will copy the whole line.
• CTRL + ‘i’ and start typing the word that you want to find. If you want the next, just type CTRL + ‘i’ again.
• CTRL + scroll up/down to zoom in and out to the code.
• Make a link to AX32.exe -development to go directly to the development-mode.

You can find more on chanel 9

Normally when you change your language you go to your user options, change your current language and the restart the client. This week I got the question if it was possible to do so in runtime. You can do so by just calling the infolog.language(str 7 _languageCode). All labels that you load after calling this method will be translated to the new language. (more…)

This week one of my customers asked me to place the amount in words on a invoice. I couldn’t believe that sush function wasn’t availible in standard Ax. After some research I found that the Global-class contains the following methods:

• static TempStr numeralsToTxt(real _num)
• static TempStr numeralsToTxt_EN(real _num)
• static TempStr numeralsToTxt_ES(real _num)
• static TempStr numeralsToTxt_FR(real _num)
• static TempStr numeralsToTxt_NL(real _num)

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While surfing the web, I came across a blog from 2 friends (Youri De Brabandere and Christof Decraene) about Enterprise Portal development. For the moment they have only a few posts, but I’m sure their will be more soon.

Have fun with the http://www.axepclipboard.com.

At one of the customers I’m currently working they took the decision to take a look at the spaghetti of security keys. We made a plan of how the new basic security-structure should look like and implemented it. After releasing this new more logical security structure we started to get the message ‘%2 %1 not initialised.‘.

After some research we discovered this issue occurred only with a few user groups and that the message only exists in the KTD-files, so it is kernel related. We checked the AccessRightsList-table for some inconsistencies but no luck. In the end we found a work-around that helped us solving this issue. When we make a export of the security and afterwards we import the export we just made, the issue disappeared by itself. Because there are a lot of user groups that could be infected with this issue, we automated this fix by running the import – export in a job.

There is a simple trick to loop all tables that are available in Ax. Just use the Dictionary-class that contains all information about tables.

Small example to list all tablenames + their corresponding Id.

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static void JeDoe_listTables(Args _args)
{
    Dictionary  dictionary = new Dictionary();
    int         i;
    ;
    for (i=1 ; i<=dictionary.tableCnt() ; i++)
    {
        info(strfmt('%1;%2', dictionary.tableCnt2Id(i), tableid2name( dictionary.tableCnt2Id(i) )));
    }
}

When you combine this with a DictTable / DictField-object, there are lots of possibilities.

Me and some of my colleagues are currently working with a customer on a Ax 2009 SP1 RU4. The other day we came to the conclusion that the modified methods on fields in a form suddenly disappeared. I know, you should write as less as possible code on a form, but sometimes there is no way around this.

After some research we found a reproduction how these methods suddenly disappeared:

1. Go tot the AOT and chose a form
2. Open the [FORM] -> Data Sources -> [TABLE] -> Fields -> [A FIELD] -node
3. Add a method (for example the modified-method)
4. Save your form
5. Go to the properties of the table in the datasource
6. Place your cursor in the table property (properties window)
7. Push ENTER

The result is that the table will be reloaded in the form and all methods you created on the fields will be gone. So here you have another reason why you shouldn’t write lots of code on your forms. You can only lose it by accident.

I was using the postload method of the HRMBenefitType-table to fill the description-field with language-sensitive description (from LanguageTxt). This works fine when I view the record, but not when I use a lookup.

I’ve put a break-point on my postload method and noticed the recId (this.recid of the HRMBenefitType table). This is always the 101090. When I check this in the tablebrowser, this does not match the actual RecId valule.
I checked the SQL-trace-log and noticed the following instruction:

SELECT A.HRMBENEFITTYPEID,A.DESCRIPTION,A.RECVERSION,101090 FROM HRMBENEFITTYPE A WHERE (DATAAREAID=?) ORDER BY A.DATAAREAID,A.HRMBENEFITTYPEID OPTION(FAST 1)

The solution to this problem is simple. Just change the CacheLookup property to EntireTable and the strange behaviour of the RecId-field stops.

While I was checking my previous Enterprise Portal titlebar issue, me and my colleagues found a second bug. When you use a single quote (‘) in the PageTitle, the name of the Page Defenition object is displayed instead of the actual label with the singel quote. We couldn’t find a solution yet, but we’re still looking.

Anyone any idea?

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 &#233. I logged this case with Microsoft and for the moment there is no fix for this issue, but they suggested a simple workaround.

Workaround:
When you edit your page in Sharepoint, you can remove the ‘Dynamics Page Title Web Part’ and replace it by the old ‘Page Title Web Part’

Explanation:
The reason why there are two Web Parts is mainly the “Page Title Web Part” is the old Web Framework (Dynamics AX 4.0) – and rendering takes part in X++ code while “Dynamics Page Title Web Part” is implemented completely in C#.

(Source: Microsoft)