Hi everyone :-).
I am tasked with doing data migration for a project that is about to go live. One of the things that have to be converted are item groups (InventItemGroup) and their linked dimensions (InventItemGroupForm).
Importing the InventItemGroup table is easy, but InventItemGroupForm is a little bit trickier.
There is a job below that shows how to fill in the LedgerDimension field on the InventItemGroupForm table. I’m not saying I completely understand the new dimension framework, but this method worked for me, and I hope it helps you when you have to do the same thing.
You will notice that you won’t be able to import the InventItemGroupForm table with the excel add-on. You’ll have to use a custom job (or make you own import framework like I did).
This white paper can help too: Implementing the Account and Financial Dimensions Framework (White paper)
Note december 2012: The code is wrong, it works but you shouldn’t do it this way.
When I figure everything out, there will be a blogpost :).
static void klforDimensionTest(Args _args)
{
/* input */
// the InventItemGroup record we want to set accounts for
InventItemGroup inventItemGroup = InventItemGroup::find("Car Audio");
// the main account we want to link to our InventItemGroup
MainAccountNum mainAccountNum = "0107";
// The account type we are setting
InventAccountType inventAccountType = InventAccountType::InventIssue;
// the dimension group of the account type
ItemGroupLedgerDimensionGroup itemGroupLedgerDimensionGroup = ItemGroupLedgerDimensionGroup::Inventory;
/* declarations */
Ledger ledger;
MainAccount mainAccount;
DimensionAttributeValueCombination dimensionAttributeValueCombination;
DimensionAttributeValue dimAttributeValue;
DimensionAttribute dimAttribute;
DimensionStorage dimStorage;
RecId hierarchyRecId;
DimensionStorageSegment dimensionStorageSegment;
InventItemGroupForm inventItemGroupForm;
;
if(inventItemGroup.RecId == 0)
{
throw error("InventItemGroup not found");
}
// check if inventItemGroupForm record exists
select firstOnly forUpdate inventItemGroupForm
where inventItemGroupForm.ItemGroupId == inventItemGroup.ItemGroupId
&& inventItemGroupForm.InventAccountType == inventAccountType
&& inventItemGroupForm.LedgerDimensionGroup == itemGroupLedgerDimensionGroup;
if(!inventItemGroupForm)
{
// record does not exists, initialize it
inventItemGroupForm.clear();
inventItemGroupForm.initValue();
inventItemGroupForm.ItemGroupId = inventItemGroup.ItemGroupId;
inventItemGroupForm.InventAccountType = inventAccountType;
inventItemGroupForm.LedgerDimensionGroup = itemGroupLedgerDimensionGroup;
}
// get the ledger record for the current company
ledger = Ledger::findByLegalEntity(CompanyInfo::current());
// lookup main account record
mainAccount = MainAccount::findByMainAccountId(mainAccountNum, false, ledger.ChartOfAccounts);
if (mainAccount.RecId == 0)
{
throw error("MainAccount not found");
}
// check if DAVC exists
select firstOnly dimensionAttributeValueCombination
where dimensionAttributeValueCombination.MainAccount == mainAccount.RecId
&& dimensionAttributeValueCombination.AccountStructure == 0
&& dimensionAttributeValueCombination.LedgerDimensionType == LedgerDimensionType::DefaultAccount;
// when the DAVC does not exist, create it
if(dimensionAttributeValueCombination.RecId == 0)
{
// Cache the dimension attribute that represents the Main account
select firstonly * from dimAttribute where
dimAttribute.RecId == DimensionAttribute::getMainAccountDimensionAttribute();
// Lookup the DAV backing the main account instance
dimAttributeValue = DimensionAttributeValue::findByDimensionAttributeAndEntityInst(dimAttribute.RecId, mainAccount.RecId, false, true);
// lookup the hierarchy for the default acount
hierarchyRecId = DimensionHierarchy::getHierarchyIdByHierarchyType(DimensionHierarchyType::DefaultAccount);
// create new storage
dimStorage = DimensionStorage::construct();
// add the default account structure hierarchy
dimStorage.addAccountStructure(hierarchyRecId);
// create storage segment for the value
dimensionStorageSegment = DimensionStorageSegment::construct(mainAccountNum, dimAttributeValue.RecId, dimAttributeValue.HashKey);
// add the segment to the storage
dimStorage.setSegment(1, dimensionStorageSegment);
// save storage as default account and get the record
dimensionAttributeValueCombination = DimensionAttributeValueCombination::find(dimStorage.saveAsDefaultAccount());
}
// set the ledgerdimension reference field
inventItemGroupForm.LedgerDimension = dimensionAttributeValueCombination.RecId;
// call modifiedfield voor ledgerdimension field to sync inventPosting
inventItemGroupForm.modifiedField(fieldNum(InventItemGroupForm, LedgerDimension));
ttsBegin;
if(inventItemGroupForm.recid == 0)
{
// insert if this is a new record
inventItemGroupForm.insert();
}
else
{
// update existing record
inventItemGroupForm.update();
}
ttsCommit;
info("Done");
}
Comments with ideas / insights / improvements are welcome as always.
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Shiva
on February 14, 2017 at 15:29
Hi,
Many thanks for your post.
I am trying to execute the same job. It shows the following error.
An internal error occurred in the remove operation in the InventPostingSetupCache_AILD object cache.
Dynamics AX blog
on March 9, 2017 at 12:31
Hello, how its going? Is there any news about new code? Thank you :)
Klaas Deforche
on March 24, 2017 at 18:49
Hi! I’m glad you ask :). I believe the correct way to get the ledger dimension value for a main account is (e.g, for main account 100000):
In my tests this returns the same result as the (way to complicated) code above.