Monthly Archives: April 2008

  Good morning,   The following code snippet will create a PDF from a CustInvoiceJour record, without any user intervention, using only the standard Ax4 EPSendDocument class.   public static void EPSendDocumentTest(Args _args){    EPSendDocument sendDocument;    CustInvoiceJour custInvoiceJour;    Filename filename;    ; … Continue reading →

  Good afternoon,   The following code will manually launch, in code, a fully fonctional lookup on SysDateLookup.   public void lookup(FormStringControl _formControl, str _filterStr){    ;       _formControl.performFormLookup(SysLookup::lookupDate());}   The class SysLookup contains lookup constructors for enum lookups and table lookups … Continue reading →

  Good morning,   This is a very basic concept. If you get the following error: "Cannot call NEXT, update(), or delete() on buffer where data is selected or inserted in another transactionscope."   It means that the record selected … Continue reading →

  Good afternoon,   MS has made available to the public Arthur Greef et al. ‘s Inside Microsoft Dynamics Ax 4.0.       Click here to download the .pdf: Inside MS Dynamics Ax 4.0   A big thank you … Continue reading →

  Good afternoon,   Yesterday I hit a snag, took me a few hours to figure out (!). I had tinkered with SQL strings in ReleaseUpdate classes often before, tweaking them, rewriting them for optimization etc… but I don’t recall … Continue reading →

  Good morning all,   We all know that at some point in the future, Ax development will converge into another Visual Studio type tool. I took a peek at class SysBPCheckMemberFunction and found the following macro:       #localmacro.FutureReservedWords        … Continue reading →

  Good morning,   Here is an X++ snippet showing how to compile forward a class without using the context menu. It potentially bypasses developper licenses, not sure about that though.   public static void CompileFormletter(Args _args){    ;        SysCompilerOutput::compileForward(className2Id("Formletter"));}  

  Good afternoon,   I use the following code when coding test cases. It allows me to create records, and delete them without having to manage every one separately. Inside my *test methods, I put the following set declaration and … Continue reading →