Dynamics AX 2009 X++ Selecting A Date Range

Question

I am creating an X++ report, and the requirement is that the user can multi-select on a form and when they click the report menu button the values are pulled in based on the selection.

So far this is easy enough, and I can pull in Str ranges i.e. order numbers, item id's etc, but I want to be able to pull in a date range based on selection.

I have used a method which several MorphX reports use, with use of 3 key methods in X++ reporting;

setQuerySortOrder setQueryEnableDS

and the main key one which is;

setQueryRange

The code for setQuery Range is as follows;

private void setQueryRange(Common _common)
{
    FormDataSource              fds;

    LogisticsControlTable       logisticsTable;
    QueryBuildDataSource        qbdsLogisticsTable;

    QueryBuildRange             qbrVanRun;
    str                         rangeVanRun;

    QueryBuildRange             qbrLogId;
    str                         rangeLogId;

    QueryBuildRange             qbrExpStartDate;
    str                         rangeExpStartDate;

    set                         vanRunSet       = new Set(Types::String);
    set                         logIdSet        = new Set(Types::String);
    set                         expStartDate    = new Set(Types::Date);

    str addRange(str _range, str _value, QueryBuildDataSource _qbds, int _fieldNum, Set _set = null)
    {
    str             ret = _range;
    QueryBuildRange qbr;
    ;

    if(_set && _set.in(_Value))
    {
        return ret;
    }

    if(strLen(ret) + strLen(_value) + 1 > 255)
    {
        qbr = _qbds.addRange(_fieldNum);
        qbr.value(ret);
        ret = '';
    }

    if(ret)
    {
        ret += ',';
    }

    if(_set)
    {
        _set.add(_value);
    }

    ret += _value;
    return ret;
}

switch(_common.TableId)
{
    case tableNum(LogisticsControlTable):

    qbdsLogisticsTable  = element.query().dataSourceTable(tableNum(LogisticsControlTable));
    qbrVanRun           = qbdsLogisticsTable.addRange(fieldNum(LogisticsControlTable, APMServiceCenterID));

    qbdsLogisticsTable  = element.query().dataSourceTable(tableNum(LogisticsControlTable));
    qbrLogId            = qbdsLogisticsTable.addRange(fieldNum(LogisticsControlTable, LogisticsId));

//       qbdsLogisticsTable  = element.query().dataSourceTable(tableNum(LogisticsControlTable));
//        qbrExpStartDate     = qbdsLogisticsTable.addRange(fieldNum(LogisticsControlTable, APMExpDateJobStart));

    fds = _common.dataSource();

    for(logisticsTable = fds.getFirst(true) ? fds.getFirst(true) : _common;
        logisticsTable;
        logisticsTable = fds.getNext())
    {
        rangeVanRun         = addrange(rangeVanRun, logisticsTable.APMServiceCenterID, qbdsLogisticsTable, fieldNum(LogisticsControlTable, APMServiceCenterID), vanRunSet);
        rangeLogID          = addrange(rangeLogID, logisticsTable.LogisticsId, qbdsLogisticsTable, fieldNum(LogisticsControlTable, LogisticsId), logIdSet);
//           rangeExpStartDate   = addrange(rangeExpStartdate,       logisticsTable.APMExpDateJobStart, qbdsLogisticsTable, fieldNum(LogisticsControlTable, APMExpDateJobStart), expStartDate);
    }



qbrLogId.value(rangeLogID);
    qbrVanRun.value(rangeVanRun);
    break;
}
}

Answer 1

Use queryValue to format your dates correctly for the query:

set expStartDate = new Set(Types::String);

rangeExpStartDate = addrange(rangeExpStartdate, queryValue(logisticsTable.APMExpDateJobStart), qbdsLogisticsTable, fieldNum(LogisticsControlTable, APMExpDateJobStart), expStartDate);