In older versions of Dynamics AX, you can get information about AX application objects (metadata) through system “tables” such as UtilElements. This doesn’t work anymore in AX 7. These tables still exist, but they don’t have any data, therefore you have to migrate to another solution. AX 7 comes with a rich framework for metadata, …
X++ didn’t change much since I started to work with it eleven years ago, with a few exceptions such as event handlers in AX 2012. That’s not true anymore in AX 7, because it comes with many new language constructs (and more are expected). If you’re familiar with modern object-oriented languages, and especially C#, you’ll …
Somebody asked in Dynamics User Group forum about an error thrown by RetailCommonWebAPI running in a batch in AX 2012 (RetailCommonWebAPI in batch mode). I don’t want to discuss that particular problem here, but I want to show the underlying cause, because it’s actually quite tricky. What I’m discussing below is related to CIL generated …
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Users sometimes want to see both individual transactions in a grid of a Dynamics AX form, and some summarized values, such as the total amount or the number of lines (often above or below the grid). Iterating through the whole datasource and getting values one by one isn’t efficient, especially if the query returns many …
When using form parts in AX 2012, you sometimes need to explicitly refresh their data based on an event in the main form. It may not be completely obvious how to do it, but it’s not too complicated in the end. Form parts are actually forms by themselves and if you know how to manipulate …