Dynamics AX Blog - ssrs

With the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Management Shell you can get a lot of information about your Dynamics AX 2012 instance.

For example, you can use the command below to display a list of all SSRS reports or just one specific report (for example, SalesInvoice).

get-AXReport -reportname *
get-AXReport -reportname salesinvoice

In Debugging SSRS-Dataprovider I have already described how to "debug" a DataProvider derived from SRSReportDataProviderBase.

The following job basically does the same, but for preprocessed reports, where the DataProvider is derived from SrsReportDataProviderPreProcess. In the example, I use the DataProvider of an invoice (SalesInvoice).

static void testSSRSDataProvider_SalesInvoice(Args _args)
{
    SalesInvoiceTmp salesInvoiceTmp;
    SalesInvoiceDP dataProvider = new SalesInvoiceDP();
    SalesInvoiceContract contract;
    CustInvoiceJour CustInvoiceJour = CustInvoiceJour::findRecId(35637191172);
    UserConnection UserConnection;

    try
    {
        ttsBegin;

        UserConnection = new UserConnection();

        contract = new SalesInvoiceContract();
        contract.parmFormLetterRecordId(CustInvoiceJour.RecId);
        contract.parmRecordId(CustInvoiceJour.RecId);

        dataProvider = new SalesInvoiceDP();
        dataProvider.parmDataContract(contract);
        dataProvider.parmUserConnection(UserConnection);
        dataProvider.processReport();

        salesInvoiceTmp = dataProvider.getSalesInvoiceTmp();
        
        while select salesInvoiceTmp
            where SalesInvoiceTmp.createdTransactionId == appl.curTransactionId()
        {
            info(strFmt("%1 %2", SalesInvoiceTmp.InvoiceId, SalesInvoiceTmp.ItemId));
        }

        ttsCommit;
    }
    catch (Exception::Break)
    {
        info("Aborted");
    }
}

A common requirement is that a report / report should be printed automatically at a certain point in time.

It is usually important to be able to give certain parameters to the report to be printed, and depending on how the report is structured on the development side this can be more or less complicated.

The following code calls a relatively simple Dataprovider-based report:

TutorialMyReportDataContract dataContract;
SrsReportDataContract srsReportDataContract;

controller = new SrsReportRunController();
controller.parmReportName(ssrsReportStr(TutorialMyReport, MyDesign)); 
controller.parmShowDialog(false);    
controller.parmLoadFromSysLastValue(false);  

srsReportDataContract =
controller.parmReportContract();

dataContract = srsReportDataContract.parmRdpContract();

dataContract.parmSalesId("S1000"); 

The next example calls the standard report Transactions (Customer Accounts > Reports > Transactions > Customer). The special feature of this report is that it uses a query within the data provider. To access these was the challenge:

Anyone who has the need to get the available designs of a SSRS report, can use the following job.

static void listDesignsOfSSRSReport(Args _args)
{
    TreeNode treeNode;
    TreeNode treeNodeDesign;
    #aot
  
    treeNode = TreeNode::findNode(#SSRSReportsPath + #AOTRootPath);
    treeNode = treeNode.AOTfindChild("SalesPackingSlip");
    treeNodeDesign = treeNode.AOTfindChild("Designs");
  
    treeNodeDesign =
    treeNodeDesign.AOTfirstChild();
    while(treeNodeDesign)
    {
        info(treeNodeDesign.AOTname());   
      
        treeNodeDesign = treeNodeDesign.AOTnextSibling();
    }
}

In the past i often had the problem, that i had to debug a dataprovider of a SSRS-Report, which could not be debugged using the well known Dynamics AX Debugger (for example because the dataprovider is executed only on server).

Therefore i created the below job (DataProvider has to extend SRSReportDataProviderBase), which only puts the content of the created (temporary) table to an simple infolog.

In the example the report "Work note" of the service module is used.

static void testSSRSDatProvider(Args _args)
{
    SMAWorkNoteTmp      tempTable;
    SMAWorkNoteDP       dataProvider = new SMAWorkNoteDP();
    SMAWorkNoteContract contract = new SMAWorkNoteContract();
    Query               query = new Query(identifierStr(SMAWorkNote));

    try
    {
        SysQuery::findOrCreateRange(
            query.dataSourceTable(
                tableNum(SMAServiceOrderTable)),
                fieldNum(SMAServiceOrderTable, ServiceOrderId)).value("00018");

        contract.parmItemConsumption(true);
        contract.parmItemRequirement(true);
        contract.parmExpense(true);
        contract.parmFee(true);
        contract.parmAdditionalNotes(true);
        contract.parmLineText(true);

        if( !contract.validate())
        {
            throw error(error::missingParameter(contract));    
        }

        dataProvider.parmDataContract(contract);
        dataProvider.parmQuery(query);
        dataProvider.processReport();

        tempTable = dataProvider.getSMAWorkNoteTmp();

        while select tempTable
        {
            info(tempTable.otServiceOrderId);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception::Break)
    {
        info("Aborted");
    }
}