Migrating from GP to AX using DIEF [AX 2012]

Today I found a hidden gem that I never noticed. It is actually in AX 2012 R2 CU7 and also in AX R3 (unchanged from the look of it).

I was going to through some DMF classes and I stumbled across this interesting class DMFDefaultMappingGP.

It has a number of select statements you can use to query GP to import into AX. Naming of the fields seem to have been done nicely, it should automatically map to the staging automaticly. I found nothing that calls these methods – only way I can think of is to copy the string and paste it into DIEF query. You will see some of the queries like InventTable and Project are empty. Either Microsoft started this and stopped after a while.

I can see the vision Microsoft started off here.

I will do some experimenting and see how it works out.

AX - How to use Map and MapEnumerator

Similar to Set class, Map class allows you to associate one value (the key) with another value. Both the key and value can be any valid X++ type, including objects. The types of the key and the value are specified in the declaration of the map. The way in which maps are implemented means that access to the values is very fast. Below is a sample code that sets and retrieves values from a map. static void checkItemNameAliasDuplicate(Args _args) { inventTable inventTable; Map map; MapEnumerator mapEnumerator; NameAlias nameAlias; int counter = 0; ; map = new Map(Types::String, Types::Integer); //store into map while select inventTable { nameAlias = inventTable.NameAlias; if (!map.exists(nameAlias)) { map.insert(nameAlias, 1); } else { map.insert(nameAlias, map.lookup(nameAlias) + 1); } } //retrieve fro

AX - How to use Set and SetEnumerator

The Set class is used for the storage and retrieval of data from a collection in which the values of the elements contained are unique and serve as the key values according to which the data is automatically ordered. You can create a set of primitive data types or complex data types such as a Class, Record or Container. Below is sample of a set of records. static void _Set(Args _args) { CustTable custTable; Set set = new Set(Types::Record); SetEnumerator setEnumerator; ; while select custTable { if (custTable && !set.in(custTable)) { set.add(custTable); } } if (!set.empty()) { setEnumerator = set.getEnumerator(); setEnumerator.reset(); while (setEnumerator.moveNext()) { custTable = setEnumerator.current(); info(strfmt("Customer: %1",custTable.AccountNum)); } } } Common mistake when creating a set of recIds

Import document handling (attachment) files #MSDyn365FO

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