Dynamics AX Blog - Dynamics AX 2012 - aot

With the help of the job shown here, you can create a shared project by code, add objects and group them into groups per object type.

static void AddNodeToSharedProject(Args _args)
{
    projectNode projectNode;
    TreeNode treeNode;
    ProjectName projectName = "MyProject";
    
    #AOT
    #AOTExport
    
    void addTreeNodeToProjectNode(treeNode _treeNode)
    {
        TmpIdRef tmpIdRef;
            
        tmpIdRef.clear();
        tmpIdRef.Name = SysTreeNode::getPath(_treeNode);
        tmpIdRef.Mode = SysTreeNode::path2ApplObjectType(tmpIdRef.Name);
        tmpIdRef.useMode = UtilFileType::Application;
        tmpIdRef.insert();
        
        SysProjectFilterRunBase::addProjectNodes(tmpIdRef, projectNode);           
    }

    projectNode    = infolog.projectRootNode();
    projectNode    = projectNode.AOTfindChild(#expProjectShared);
    projectNode    = projectNode.AOTfindChild(projectName);
   
    // Create shared project if neccessary
    if( !projectNode)
    {
        projectNode = SysTreeNode::createProject(projectName, ProjectSharedPrivate::ProjShared);        
    }
    
    // Add objects (and create groups)
    treenode = TreeNode::findNode(#TablesPath+#AOTRootPath+tableid2name(tablenum(AccountingDistribution)));
    addTreeNodeToProjectNode(treenode);

    treenode = TreeNode::findNode(#TablesPath+#AOTRootPath+tableid2name(tablenum(VendGroup)));
    addTreeNodeToProjectNode(treenode);
   
    treenode = TreeNode::findNode(#ClassesPath+#AOTRootPath+classStr(PriceDisc));
    addTreeNodeToProjectNode(treenode);

}

In the same way you can also create a private project, simply replace the occurrences of Shared by Private.

The created project looks like this:

To list all (shared-) pojects that carry a specific text in the name, you can use the following code.

static void searchProjectName(Args _args)
{
    ProjectNode projectNode;

    #AOTExport

    projectNode    = infolog.projectRootNode();
    projectNode    = projectNode.AOTfindChild(#expProjectShared);
    projectNode    = projectNode.AOTfirstChild();

    while(projectNode)
    {
        setPrefix(projectNode.name());

        if(strScan(projectNode.name(), "BR_", 0, 60))
        {
            info(projectNode.name());
        }

        projectNode    = projectNode.AOTnextSibling();
    }
}

Using the SysModel* tables, you can browse the AOT to certain objects or their properties in Dynamics AX. I've posted an example already here.

The following job is an extension of the above posting and lists all objects that have been changed in the current layer and still were not added to version control.

To browse the AOT for particular objects, you can use the TreeNode class. I've already posted some examples in the past.

In Dynamics AX 2012, a new option has been added, and although there are now some tables that begin with SysModel*. You can also use these tables to browse the AOT objects/properties.

An example of such a query is the following job, which returns (unsorted) all objects that have been modified in the current layer.

The following job lists all tables where a particular property - in the example the property ModifiedBy is requested - has a specific value.

In macro #Properties you find another possible properties of AOT objects, so you can use the job also to query other properties.

Find below a short example, how to add object nodes to a shared project through code.

The so modified Project will look like this: