Electronic reporting: Method returning a list of records

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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Getting attributes in X++

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 …

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Event handler for multiple events

I’m not sure that everybody is aware that a single event handler method (in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations) can be decorated with several event handler attributes. For example, a common method can handle both inserts and updates. [ DataEventHandler(tableStr(MyTable), DataEventType::Inserted), DataEventHandler(tableStr(MyTable), DataEventType::Updated) ] public static void myHandler(Common _sender, DataEventArgs _e) Or it can …

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