Hi There,

I hope everyone had a great new year and that you are ready for a new one full of challenges, and good things.
 
In this post I would like to discuss how to create product and product masters in AX 2012. Sometimes our requirements vary depending on the customer, and more often than not, we need to provide a dynamic option to create either a product or a product master.

So, what is the definition of these two terms?

Product: This is the simpler of the two. They do not need product dimension groups when created.

Product Master: This type must contain product dimension groups; otherwise you’ll get a run-time error at the time the EcoResService is called.

The product dimension groups can be Color, Size, Style and Configuration. In addition, you can create any other dimension group. In my example, a user created a dimension group called “Revision”, which is the chosen one for this example. This shows how flexible AX2012 is around product dimensions.

The following code takes two parameters. One is the product name (which has a custom EDT), and the product sub type (is it product or product master). Further, to achieve this we will use the following classes:

EcoResEcoResProduct_TrackingDimGroup   
EcoResEcoResProduct_Product_Master     
EcoResEcoResProduct_Product_Distinct   
EcoResEcoResProduct_ProductDimGroup    
EcoResEcoResProduct_StorageDimGroup    
EcoResEcoResProduct_translation        
EcoResEcoResProduct_Identifier         
EcoResProductService        
           
The EcoResEcoResProduct_Product_Master (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ecoresecoresproduct_product_master.aspx) class is in charge of creating the new Product Master, and the EcoResEcoResProduct_Product_Distinct (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ecoresecoresproduct_product_distinct.aspx) class is in charge of creating the Product. These records are going to be created in the EcoResProduct Table.
 
As you probably know by now, even these records exist in the EcoResProduct table, they haven’t been release to AX just yet.

Moving right along, we will be using the EcoResProductService class (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ecoresproductservice.aspx) to actually create the product in the EcoResProduct Table.

/// <summary>
/// Creates a new product in EcoResProduct
/// </summary>
/// <returns>
///
/// </returns>
/// <remarks>
///
/// </remarks>
/// <exception cref="Exception::Error">
/// Throws error upon Exception.
/// </exception>
 
public static void CreateEcoResProduct(ProductName _ecmProductName, EcoResProductSubtype prodSubType)
{
    EcoResEcoResProduct_TrackingDimGroup    tracDimGroup;
    EcoResEcoResProduct_Product_Master      productMaster;
    EcoResEcoResProduct_Product_Distinct    distMaster;
    EcoResEcoResProduct_ProductDimGroup      prodDimGroup;
    EcoResEcoResProduct_StorageDimGroup      storDimGroup;
    EcoResEcoResProduct_translation          translation;
    EcoResEcoResProduct_Identifier           identifier;
    EcoResProductService                     ecoProdSvc;
    EcoResProductNumber                      lEcoResProductNumber;
    NumberSequenceTable                      numberSequenceTable;
    EcoResEcoResProduct                      ecoResProd;
    EcoResProductType                        ecoResProductType;
    boolean                                  isMaster = false;
    ;
 
    try
    {
        // create product by initializing the Service object
        ecoProdSvc = EcoResProductService::construct();
 
        // initialize the EcoResEcoResProduct object
        ecoResProd = new EcoResEcoResProduct();
     
        numberSequenceTable = EcoResProductParameters::numRefProductNumber().numberSequenceTable();

        lEcoResProductNumber = NumberSeq::newGetNumFromId(numberSequenceTable.RecId).num();
        ecoResProductType = EcoResProductType::Item;
      
        if(prodSubType == EcoResProductSubtype::ProductMaster)
        {
            isMaster = true;

            //Create a new product master
            productMaster = new EcoResEcoResProduct_Product_Master();
 
            //initialize product master
            productMaster.parmDisplayProductNumber(lEcoResProductNumber);
            productMaster.parmProductType(ecoResProductType);
            productMaster.parmSearchName(_ecmProductName);
           
            productMaster.parmVariantConfigurationTechnology(EcoResVariantConfigurationTechnologyType::PredefinedVariants);
 
            //create a product master Translation Object
            translation = productMaster.createTranslation().addNew();
 
            // create a new identifier object
            Identifier = productMaster.createIdentifier().AddNew();
 
            // Create the ProductDimensionGroup
            prodDimGroup = productMaster.createProductDimGroup().addNew();
            prodDimGroup.parmProduct(lEcoResProductNumber);
           
            prodDimGroup.parmProductDimensionGroup('Revision');
 
            // Create the StorageDimgroup object
            storDimGroup = productMaster.createStorageDimGroup().addNew();
            storDimGroup.parmProduct(lEcoResProductNumber);
            storDimGroup.parmStorageDimensionGroup("S-W-L");
 
            // Create the TrackingDimGroup object
            tracDimGroup = productMaster.createTrackingDimGroup().addNew();
            tracDimGroup.parmProduct(lEcoResProductNumber);
            tracDimGroup.parmTrackingDimensionGroup("none");
        }
        else
        {
            // Create a new product distinct master
            distMaster = new EcoResEcoResProduct_Product_Distinct();
 
            // Take the newly created and initialize ProdMaster - variable and fill with product data
            distMaster.parmDisplayProductNumber(lEcoResProductNumber);
            distMaster.parmProductType(ecoResProductType);
            distMaster.parmSearchName(_ecmProductName);
 
            // Create a translation object
            translation = distMaster.createTranslation().addNew();
 
            // Create a new identifier object
            Identifier = distMaster.createIdentifier().addNew();
 
            // Create the StorageDimgroup object
            storDimGroup = distMaster.createStorageDimGroup().addNew();
            storDimGroup.parmProduct(lEcoResProductNumber);
            storDimGroup.parmStorageDimensionGroup("S-W-L");
 
            // Create the TrackingDimGroup object
            tracDimGroup = distMaster.createTrackingDimGroup().addNew();
            tracDimGroup.parmProduct(lEcoResProductNumber);
            tracDimGroup.parmTrackingDimensionGroup("None");
        }

        // fill the translation object
        translation.parmDescription(_ecmProductName);
        translation.parmLanguageId('en-us');
 
        //translati
        translation.parmName(_ecmProductName);
 
        // fill the identifier
        identifier.parmProductNumber(lEcoResProductNumber);
 
        // add the product to ecoResProd
        if(isMaster)
            ecoResProd.createProduct().add(productMaster);
        else
            ecoResProd.createProduct().add(distMaster);
 
        // create the product using service
        ecoProdSvc.create(ecoResProd);
    }
    catch(Exception::Error)
    {
        throw Exception::Error;
    }
    catch(Exception::Deadlock)
    {
        retry;
    }
    catch(Exception::UpdateConflict)
    {
        if(appl.ttsLevel() == 0)
        {
            if(xSession::currentRetryCount() >= 4)
            {
                throw Exception::UpdateConflictNotRecovered;
            }
            else
            {
                retry;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            throw Exception::UpdateConflict;
        }
    }
}



Happy New Year and until the next time!