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I had already seen the situation that I wanted to know if a record has a particular field to be able to process the containing value. For example, within a method, which processes the calling args().

For example, in class SysDictTable the hasMethod() method is available, but i have not found a hasField() method so far.

Therefore I've created the following logic:

Common callingRecord;
itemId itemId;
SysDictField itemDictField;

itemDictField = SysDictField::findFieldByName(tableId2name(callingRecord.TableId), identifierStr(itemId));

if(itemDictField)
{
    itemId = callingRecord.(itemDictField.id());
}

If you include the SysOperationInitializable class in a data contract using the implements command, the method initialize() gets available and can be overwritten.

This method can be used to initialize variables within the data contract. However, this method is only called as long as no usage data is found or it is not activated.

The following job demonstrates how to display the values of a financial dimension - in the example Department - via X++.

static void getValues4Dimension(Args _args)
{
    DimensionValueService dimensionValueService;
    DimensionContract dimensionContract;
    List dimensionValueContractList;
    ListEnumerator listEnumerator ;
    DimensionValueContract dimensionValueContract;
    DimensionValue dimensionValue;

    dimensionValueService = new DimensionValueService();
    dimensionContract = new DimensionContract();
    dimensionContract.parmDimensionName('Department');
    dimensionValueContractList = dimensionValueService.getDimensionValues(dimensionContract);
    listEnumerator = dimensionValueContractList.getEnumerator();

    setPrefix(strFmt("Dimension %1: ", dimensionContract.parmDimensionName()));
    while(listEnumerator.moveNext())
    {
        dimensionValueContract = listEnumerator.current();
        dimensionValue = dimensionValueContract.parmValue();

        info(dimensionValue);
    }
}