Disable financial dimensions in AX 2012 through code

Disable financial dimensions in AX 2012 through code

Disabling particular financial dimension based on record or on particular form quite tricky in AX 2012 compared to AX 2009.

Here is an example to achieve disabling Business unit financial dimension on Customers form in AX 2012.

Process to disable Business Unit financial dimension on Customers form.

1.       Create a new parm method in ‘DimensionDefaultingControllerBase’ class as shown below  

void parmEditableDimensionAttributeSetId(RefRecId _editableDimensionAttributeSetId  = editableDimensionAttributeSetId)

{

    editableDimensionAttributeSetId = _editableDimensionAttributeSetId;

}

2.       Create a new method in ‘CustTable’ form as shown below  

private void setDimensionAttributeSetStorage()

{

    DimensionAttribute              dimAttr;

    DimensionAttributeSetItem       dimAttrSetItem;

    DimensionEnumeration            dimensionSetId = DimensionCache::getDimensionAttributeSetForLedger();

    DimensionAttributeSetStorage    dimensionAttributeSetStorage;

    ;

    dimensionAttributeSetStorage = new DimensionAttributeSetStorage();

    while select * from dimAttr

            order by Name

            where dimAttr.Type != DimensionAttributeType::MainAccount

        join RecId from dimAttrSetItem

            where dimAttrSetItem.DimensionAttribute == dimAttr.RecId &&

                dimAttrSetItem.DimensionAttributeSet == dimensionSetId

    {

        if (dimAttr.Name != 'BusinessUnit') // Except BusinessUnit rest should enable

            dimensionAttributeSetStorage.addItem(dimAttr.RecId, dimAttr.HashKey,NoYes::Yes);

    }

     dimensionDefaultingController.parmEditableDimensionAttributeSetId(dimensionAttributeSetStorage.save());

}

3.       Add below highlighted code in ‘init’ method of ‘CustTable’ form as shown below     

Calling newly created method before dimensionDefaultingController.pageActivated();

dimensionDefaultingController = DimensionDefaultingController::constructInTabWithValues(true, true, true, 0, this, tabFinancialDimensions, "@SYS138487");

    dimensionDefaultingController.parmAttributeValueSetDataSource(custTable_ds,fieldStr(CustTable, DefaultDimension));

    // Added by Shankar on 25/11/2013 DisableFinDimensions - Begin

    this.setDimensionAttributeSetStorage();

    // Added by Shankar on 25/11/2013 DisableFinDimensions - End

    dimensionDefaultingController.pageActivated();

4.       Now open Customers form & check financial dimensions tab it shows as below.

Can see Business Unit financial dimension disabled, highlighted one.