Default dimensions in AX 2012

Creating default dimensions for vendor or customer through X++:

Created a class called “FindOrCreateDefaultDimension” and then utilizing its method “findDefaultDimension” whenever default dimension is required.

Suppose I’ve 6 dimension out of which 3 are custom dimension and rest are standard ones. For custom dimension am including ‘FinancialDimensionTag’ Table in to the while loop. As shown below

Static DimensionDefault findDefaultDimension(str _Department, Str _BusinessType,str _AnchorTenant, Str _Category,str _SiteId, str _costcenter, str _purpose)

{

    Struct                          struct = new Struct();

    container                       defDimensionCon;

    DimensionDefault                dimensionDefault;

    DimensionAttributeSetItem       dimAttrSetItem;

    DimensionAttribute              dimAttribute;

    int i;

    //Loop for required dimensions

    while select Name, BackingEntityType from dimAttribute

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

              dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimAttributeOMDepartment) ||

              dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimAttributeOMCostCenter) ||

              dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimensionFinancialTag) &&

              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(DimAttributeOMDepartment))

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, _Department);

        }

       if (dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimensionFinancialTag) && dimAttribute.Name == 'BusinessType')

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, _BusinessType);

        }

        if (dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimensionFinancialTag) && dimAttribute.Name == 'AnchorTenant')

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, _AnchorTenant);

        }

        if (dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimensionFinancialTag) && dimAttribute.Name == 'Category')

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, _Category);

        }

        if (dimAttribute.BackingEntityType == tableNum(DimensionFinancialTag) && dimAttribute.Name == 'SiteId')

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, _SiteId);

        }

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

        {

            struct.add(dimAttribute.Name, _costcenter);

        }

    }

    defDimensionCon += struct.fields();

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

    {

        defDimensionCon += struct.fieldName(i);

        defDimensionCon += struct.valueIndex(i);

    }

        if (struct.fields())

    {

        //Get the DimensionAttributeValueSet table’s Record ID

        dimensionDefault = AxdDimensionUtil::getDimensionAttributeValueSetId(defDimensionCon);

    }

    return dimensionDefault;

}

And now am going to use the above created class to update the vendor financial dimensions.

static void Updating_VendorDefaultDimension(Args _args)

{

    VendTable       vt;

    ;

    vt = VendTable::find("VT-1003", true);

    vt.DefaultDimension = FindOrCreateDefaultDimension::findDefaultDimension("00000063", "", "", "", "", "OU_4612", "");

    vt.update();

}

Running the above job will results in to:

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