When you open a data entity in Data Connector in Excel (usually from an F&O form by Open in Excel), not all fields must be displayed by default. You can go to Designer and add more fields from Available to Selected. But what if you want some fields included by default? You could create a …
I had a scenario in electronic report where I wanted to reuse existing X++ code that generates some temporary table records for reporting purpose. Therefore I wanted electronic reporting to call my X++ method (for a particular context, an invoice in this case) and use the list of records returned by this method. Electronic reporting …
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In X++, you can decorate classes and methods with attributes. Attributes were added in AX 2012 (I believe), where the typical use case was a definition of data contracts. They’re much more common in F&O, because they’re also used for CoC and event handlers. For most developers, attributes are something defined by Microsoft and used …
When you execute automated tests of X++ code with SysTest, the test service (SysTestService class) gets called with some parameters, defined in SysTestRunnerSettings: You could, for example, set granularity to execute just unit tests and skip integration tests, or produce a trace file for diagnostics. You may want to use such parameters in automatic processes …
When you overlayered an application element (e.g. a method or a form) in Dynamics AX, a copy was saved in a higher layer. You modified the object there, therefore you ended up with two copies of the same element – the original one in a lower layer (such as SYS) and your modified one in …
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