Dynamics 365 FO / AX - thoughts on application development and customizations

Being in a situation where I needed to determine if a certain AOT-element was included in an installed model, I wonder why Microsoft didn't link the form showing installed models (Help / About Microsoft Dynamics AX / (link) Show installed models) or (Tools / Model management / Models installed) with the form showing Elements in installed models (Tools / Model management / Model elements. Opening the About Dynamics AX form you are able to access the list of installed models in the application, but you can not drill down to the elements included in the model. You'll have to go to the other form and make a filter to view the elements in a model. So I quickly made the attached code project, which simply adds a button (Elements) to the Installed models form, so that you can see a list of the elements included in the model. In the element list you can open the cross reference for each element, to make further drill down as to which elements are using the element included in th...

In Dynamics AX 2012 if General Ledger module is setup to validate Check sales tax by entering either "Warning" or "Error" in the "Check sales tax groups" field, then Dynamics AX will throw an error (stop execution) or issue a warning in the infolog if it encounters a tax setup error when doing calculation of tax. The error looks like this: As you might know the tax calculation is based on getting the intersecting tax codes connected to the item tax group and the tax group of a given source document line. In this case I encountered we wanted to diagnose the origins of the error, because the error occurred when changing a customer group, which we thought was a bit odd. Digging a bit deeper, the error was not related to changing the customer group, but instead related to the following recalculation of credit limit on the customer that Dynamics AX wanted to perform. I traced the error to the class Tax and the method insertInterSection. Seing...

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I learned something new from one of my colleagues today, which is always nice. I have often been irritated by the Dynamics AX 2012 CIL-builds ability to be uninformative. The incremental CIL-build does not always tell you why it is unable to finish an incremental build, and up until today my procedure for fixing problems to be able to cil-build incrementally has been to run a complete x++ compile, which takes quite a long time. You can examine the cause(s) of the CIL-build failure by doing the following: 1) Login on the AOS-server. 2) Find the AOS server folder 3) Go to the folder of the instance where you experienced CIL-build problems. 4) Goto folder Bin\XppIL 5) Find the file Dynamics.Ax:Application.dll.log (an example of a full path for the file could be C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Server\DEV_AX2012\bin\XppIL\Dynamics.Ax:Application.dll.log) In this file you can see the compile-errors which caused the incremental CIL-build to fail. Thank God for technic...

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How does one work around the Best practice error: "A form that is not associated with other forms should be linked to at least one menu item", when developing a custom lookup form ? Developing a possibility of a custom setup on the table ReqSitePolicy, that allows for calculation of "External Invent Onhand level", I added two new extended data types: ItemSearchInventSiteId exending InventSiteId ItemSearchInventLocationId extending InventLocationId and three new fields: ItemSearchShowAvailInventDataAreaId based on EDT SelectableDataArea ItemSearchShowAvailInventSiteId based on EDT ItemSearchInventSiteId ItemSearchShowAvailInventLocationId (based on a EDT ItemSearchInventLocationId) to the ReqSitePolicy table. To be able to make lookups for ItemSearchShowAvailInventSiteId and ItemSearchShowAvailInventLocationId fields based on the legal entity chosen in the ItemSearchShowAvailInventDataAreaId field (even though the currently active legal entity might ...

Some years ago, I wrote on this blog of a method to make a form modal in the AX client. The solution was made on Axapta 3.0 and involved calling winapi unmanaged. Someone commented that the method I described was bad code, because he had experienced a computer crash while debugging something that involved the code. Mindaugas Pocius has suggested a method in his Dynamics AX cookbook books Dynamics AX Cookbooks where the windowtype is set to Popup. This ensures that the form is on top but not that the form you want to be modal, is the only one that is active, so using Mindagaus' method, you are able to leave the form that is "modal". Now a colleague of mine has found a very simple solution. His scenario was this. From a form you can click a button that opens an other form. This form that is opened must be ontop and the only form in focus and active until you either click OK or CANCEL in this form. The calling form includes a button, that open the form to be modal. The...