Replace a Financial Dimension in Default Dimensions–Condensed [AX 2012]

In my previous post on Replacing default dimensions, I had provided a job to replace one financial dimension within a default dimension. The job was pretty big and I always thought that Microsoft should have provided some way to do these operations easily. Luckily I found a class that has helped me to condense that job and make it pretty small. I am sharing that job here:

The dimensions for Customer record looks like this before running the job:

Here is the job to change the values. We will change the values for Business Unit, Department and Worker all with this simple job:

static void replaceDefaultDimensionsCondense(Args _args)

{

    /*

     * In this job, we will replace the Business Unit Value from BU-001 to BU-002

     * and fill in the values for Department as Dep-001 and Worker as 114

     */

    CustTable                       custTable = CustTable::find(‘CUS-00004’); //Customer Record containing Financial Dimension

    Struct                          struct = new Struct(); //Structure to hold the dimension values to replace

    container                       defDimensionCon; //Container to prepare the required values and dimension attribute combination

    DimensionDefault                dimensionDefault; //Get the replaced dimension recid

    DimensionAttributeSetItem       dimAttrSetItem; //Table to get active dimensions for the legal entity

    DimensionAttribute              dimAttribute; //Table to get the Financial dimensions

    int i; //For looping

 

    //Loop for required dimensions

    while select Name, BackingEntityType from dimAttribute

        where dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimAttributeOMBusinessUnit) ||

              dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimAttributeOMDepartment) ||

              dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimAttributeHcmWorker) &&

              dimAttribute.Type              != DimensionAttributeType::DynamicAccount

              join dimAttrSetItem

                where dimAttrSetItem.DimensionAttribute == dimAttribute.RecId &&

                      dimAttrSetItem.DimensionAttributeSet == DimensionCache::getDimensionAttributeSetForLedger()

    {

        //Add the Dimension name and display value to struct

        if (dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimAttributeOMBusinessUnit))

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, ‘BU-002’);

        }

        else if (dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimAttributeOMDepartment))

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, ‘DEP-002’);

        }

        else if (dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimAttributeHcmWorker))

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, ‘114’);

        }

    }

 

    //Prepare the container

    defDimensionCon += struct.fields();

 

    for (i = 1; i <= struct.fields(); i++)

    {

        defDimensionCon += struct.fieldName(i);

        defDimensionCon += struct.valueIndex(i);

    }

 

    //if there are fields in struct

    if (struct.fields())

    {

        //Get the DimensionAttributeValueSet table’s Record ID

        dimensionDefault = AxdDimensionUtil::getDimensionAttributeValueSetId(defDimensionCon);

       

        //Update to Customer

        ttsBegin;

        custTable.selectForUpdate(true);

        if (custTable.DefaultDimension)

        {

            custTable.DefaultDimension = DimensionDefaultingService::serviceMergeDefaultDimensions(dimensionDefault, custTable.DefaultDimension);

        }

        else

        {

            custTable.DefaultDimension = dimensionDefault;

        }

        custTable.doUpdate();

        ttsCommit;

    }

}

 

Dimensions after running the job:

Pretty Neat!

The class AxdDimensionUtil is pretty handy to do all these stuff.