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How do i make sure LocationId is auto generated all the time. Because If i'm doing the import via DMF, there is an "auto generate" flag to acheive this. But how to do it by x++?

                DirPartyLocationPostalAddressV2Entity partyPostalAddressEntity;

                partyPostalAddressEntity.PartyNumber        =  _partyNumber;
                partyPostalAddressEntity.Street             = _req.Street();
                partyPostalAddressEntity.City               = _req.City();
                partyPostalAddressEntity.County             = _req.County();
                partyPostalAddressEntity.State              = _req.State();
                partyPostalAddressEntity.CountryRegionId    = _req.CountryRegionId();
                partyPostalAddressEntity.ZipCode            = _req.PostCode();
                partyPostalAddressEntity.Roles              = "Delivery"
                partyPostalAddressEntity.Description        = _req.LocationName();
                 
                partyPostalAddressEntity.insert();

it's because if i provide values that exactly matches another address but the locationName is different, then remmitance method of the entity gets called and it returns the old address instead of inserting a new one. How can I make sure the address is always inserted?

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I don't think you need to do anything; the logic is already there. Look into LogisticsPostalAddressBaseEntity.initializeEntityDataSource(); you'll see that if LocationId is empty, the call of LogisticsLocation.initValue() isn't skipped (and a LocationId is generated there) and then the value is assigned to LocationId of the entity.

This is the code:

if (_dataSourceCtx.name() == dataEntityDataSourceStr(LogisticsPostalAddressBaseEntity, LogisticsLocation)) { if (this.LocationId) { _dataSourceCtx.skipInitValue(true); } } ... super(_entityCtx, _dataSourceCtx); if (_dataSourceCtx.name() == dataEntityDataSourceStr(LogisticsPostalAddressBaseEntity, LogisticsLocation)) { if (this.LocationId == "") { LogisticsLocation location = _dataSourceCtx.getBuffer(); this.LocationId = location.LocationId; } }

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Hi Martin,

LogisticsPostalAddressBaseEntity.initializeEntityDataSource(); is not called when calling DirPartyLocationPostalAddressV2Entity.Insert();

And as I said in the question, below is the bahvoiur I'm getting, and that's why I need to do sth:
it's because if i provide values that exactly matches another address but the locationName is different, then remmitance method of the entity gets called and it returns the old address instead of inserting a new one. How can I make sure the address is always inserted?
I can avoid this in DMF by ticking "auto generate" but not sure what do via x++

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LogisticsPostalAddressBaseEntity.initializeEntityDataSource() is called and the value is assigned there. Maybe your attempt fails before it can reach the right code.

We're using DirPartyLocationPostalAddressV2Entity in code, but LogisticsPostalAddressBaseEntity is its data source that LocationId field is bound to.

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Hi Martin,

How did you insert the address?

What i did is that I took the details for an existing active address, , then I only changed the LocationName when inserting. Did you try this exact scenario?

I assume it worked for you because maybe you updated other fields like street, city...etc

Or what you can do is insert the address the first time, then insert it again but by changing the locationName

I don't think my attempt fails because i get no errors and I put a break point at the beginning of the method, so if it got called i would have seen this.

Anyways, I fixed this by adding this line

partyPostalAddressEntity.LocationId = LogisticsLocation::getNewLocationId();

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I didn't import any file - I used your code; I just changed the values and fixed the compilation error.

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