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Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

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Posted on by Kim Kopowski

Hi all,

I need your help creating Print Management Settings dynamically with x++ (2012 R2). If you are not familiar with this feature have a look here http://dynamicsaxtipoftheday.com/2013/10/30/use-print-management-to-automatically-email-documents-to-customers-vendors/

The settings are stored in two tables:

PrintMgmtSettings

PrintMgmtDocInstance

the settings itself are stored in the class "PrintMgmtSetupSettingsDefault" which is packed in the container field PrintMgmtSettings.PrintJobSettings

My challenge currently is that I can't create an instance of this class!

My goal eventually is, to create a DIEF entity to import Print Management Settings for Customer and Vendor Master Data... any help Creating Print Management Settings via x++ greatly appreciated!!

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  • M Anas Khan Profile Picture
    M Anas Khan 1,418 on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    Please refer to link below to create print management settings in X++

    dynamicsaxinsight.wordpress.com/.../

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    Chaitanya Golla Profile Picture
    Chaitanya Golla 17,225 on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    Hi,

    Please refer the following link:

    (x++ job to export customer print management)

    community.dynamics.com/.../x-job-to-export-customer-print-management

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    Thanks for Sharing this Torkia,

    Is there any way we could do the other way around? I mean, to export the information stored in the Print Management setup to Excel / txt file?

    Regards,

    Juliano Martins

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    This thread helped me to resolve an issue. thank you all for sharing your code and View.

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    SU-22040800-0 Profile Picture
    SU-22040800-0 2,401 on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    Thanks Torkia !

    This works perfectly.. I did notice that the file is delimeted with | (pipe) and not CSV, so I just changed the code to look for a comma :)

    .....

    .....

     filetype        type;

     container       record;

     str             Delimiter = ",";

     int             totalRecords;

     int             PriorityIDInt;

    ....

    ....

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    I'm not able to attach my csv file. Below an example of the content. Let me know if you need more help.

    PrintType|AccountNum|NodeType|DocumentType|DocumentTypeID|Name|EmailTo|EmailSubject|EmailAttachmentFileFormat|Supress|PriorityID|ReportFormat|NumberOfCopies|PrintMediumType
    Copy|10003|CustTable|SalesOrderInvoice|1| SO Invoice Email||Invoice / Facture|PDF|No|1|SalesInvoice.Report|2|Email
    Copy|10004|CustTable|SalesOrderInvoice|1| SO Invoice Email||Invoice / Facture|PDF|No|1|SalesInvoice.Report|2|Email
    Copy|10005|CustTable|SalesOrderInvoice|1| SO Invoice Email||Invoice / Facture|PDF|No|1|SalesInvoice.Report|1|Email
    Copy|10006|CustTable|SalesFreeTextInvoice|5| Free Text Invoice Email||Invoice / Facture|PDF|No|1|FreeTextInvoice.Report|2|Email
    Copy|10013|CustTable|SalesFreeTextInvoice|5| Free Text Invoice Email||Invoice / Facture|PDF|No|1|FreeTextInvoice.Report|2|Email
    Copy|10015|CustTable|SalesFreeTextInvoice|5| Free Text Invoice Email||Invoice / Facture|PDF|No|1|FreeTextInvoice.Report|1|Email
    Copy|10020|CustTable|SalesOrderConfirmation|2| SO Confirmation Email1||SO Confirmation|PDF|No|1|SalesConfirm.Report|1|Email
    Copy|10020|CustTable|SalesOrderConfirmation|2| SO Confirmation Email2||SO Confirmation|PDF|No|2|SalesConfirm.Report|1|Email
    Copy|10030|CustTable|SalesOrderConfirmation|2| SO Confirmation Email1||SO Confirmation|PDF|No|1|SalesConfirm.Report|1|Email
    Copy|10030|CustTable|SalesOrderConfirmation|2| SO Confirmation Email2||SO Confirmation|PDF|No|2|SalesConfirm.Report|1|Email

  • SU-22040800-0 Profile Picture
    SU-22040800-0 2,401 on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    Thanks VERY much Torkia!

    Can I ask you to possibly send me an example CSV import file? I'm not too sure what some of the 14 fields are referencing.

    Thanks again

    James

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    Hi James,

    I'm working on importing print management. Here is a script that I have just coded and tested. Let me know if you need more help:

    /// <summary>

    /// Job for importing Print Management settings records from a CSV file.

    /// </summary>

    static void XX_DM_Import_PrintManagement2(Args _args)

    {

      Dialog          dialog  = new Dialog();

      DialogField     dialogField;

      AsciiIo         importFile;

      str             filePath,fileNameOnly;

      filetype        type;

      container       record;

      str             Delimiter = "|";

      int             totalRecords;

      int             PriorityIDInt;

      str             captain = "Select CSV file for Print Management";

      int             numberOfColumns = 14;

      container printerSetting = conNull();

      PrintMgmtSettings MgmtSettings;

      PrintMgmtDocInstance instance;

      SRSPrintDestinationSettings destination;

      PrintMgmtReportFormat PrintMgmtReportFormat;

      PrintMgmtDocumentType PrintMgmtDocumentType;

      PrintMgmtDocInstanceType PrintMgmtDocInstanceType;

      NoYes NoYes;

      SRSReportFileFormat SRSReportFileFormat;

      SRSPrintMediumType SRSPrintMediumType;

      str PrintType, AccountNum, NodeType, DocumentType, DocumentTypeID, Name, EmailTo, EmailSubject, EmailAttachmentFileFormat, Supress, PriorityID, ReportFormat,NumberOfCopies, PrintMediumType;

      CustTable CustTable;

      VendTable VendTable;

      dialogField=dialog.addField(extendedTypeStr(FilenameOpen),"Select File","Select file to import");

      dialog.caption(captain);

      dialog.filenameLookupFilter(['csv','*.csv']);

      if(!dialog.run())

          return;

      [filePath, fileNameOnly, type] = fileNameSplit(dialogField.value());

      importFile = new AsciiIo(dialogField.value(), 'R');

      if((!importFile) || (importFile.status() != IO_Status::Ok))

      {

          warning("Error in opening import file");

          throw(Exception::Error);

      }

      importFile.inFieldDelimiter(Delimiter);

      if((!importFile) || (importFile.status() != IO_Status::Ok))

      {

          warning("Error in opening log file");

          throw(Exception::Error);

      }

      try

      {

          record = importFile.read();

          while(importFile.status() ==  IO_Status::Ok)

          {

              record = importFile.read();

              if(!record)

                  break;

              else if(conLen(record) != 14)

                  continue;

              totalRecords = totalRecords + 1;

              PrintType                     = conPeek(record,1);

              AccountNum                    = conPeek(record,2);

              NodeType                      = conPeek(record,3);

              DocumentType                  = conPeek(record,4);

              DocumentTypeID                = conPeek(record,5);

              Name                          = conPeek(record,6);

              EmailTo                       = conPeek(record,7);

              EmailSubject                  = conPeek(record,8);

              EmailAttachmentFileFormat     = conPeek(record,9);

              Supress                       = conPeek(record,10);

              PriorityID                    = conPeek(record,11);

              ReportFormat                  = conPeek(record,12);

              NumberOfCopies                = conPeek(record,13);

              PrintMediumType               = conPeek(record,14);

              PriorityIDInt= str2int(PriorityID);

              if (NodeType=='CustTable')

                  CustTable=CustTable::find(AccountNum);

              else

              {

                  if (NodeType=='VendTable')

                      VendTable=VendTable::find(AccountNum);

              }

              destination =   new SRSPrintDestinationSettings(printerSetting);

              destination.unpack(printerSetting);

              destination.caption("@SYS131685");

              destination.emailTo(EmailTo);

              //destination.printMediumType(str2enum(SRSPrintMediumType,PrintMediumType));

              destination.printMediumType(SRSPrintMediumType::Email);

              destination.emailSubject(EmailSubject);

              //destination.emailAttachmentFileFormat(str2enum(SRSReportFileFormat,EmailAttachmentFileFormat));

              destination.emailAttachmentFileFormat(SRSReportFileFormat::PDF);

              destination.numberOfCopies(1);

              ttsBegin;

              if (NodeType=='CustTable')

                  instance=PrintMgmtDocInstance::find(CustTable.RecId, CustTable.TableId, PrintMgmtNodeType::CustTable,str2int(DocumentTypeID) ,PriorityIDInt);

              else

              {

                  if (NodeType=='VendTable')

                      instance=PrintMgmtDocInstance::find(VendTable.RecId, VendTable.TableId, PrintMgmtNodeType::VendTable,str2int(DocumentTypeID) ,PriorityIDInt);

              }

              if (instance)

              {

                  instance.selectForUpdate(true);

              }

              instance.Name           = Name;

              instance.DocumentType   = str2int(DocumentTypeID);

              instance.PrintType      = str2enum(PrintMgmtDocInstanceType, PrintType);

              instance.PriorityId     = str2Int(PriorityID);

              instance.Suppress       = str2enum(NoYes,Supress);

              if (NodeType=='CustTable')

              {

                  instance.ReferencedTableId  =  CustTable.TableId;

                  instance.ReferencedRecId    =  CustTable.RecId;

                  instance.NodeType           =  PrintMgmtNodeType::CustTable;

              }

              else

              if (NodeType=='VendTable')

              {

                  instance.ReferencedTableId  =  VendTable.TableId;

                  instance.ReferencedRecId    =  VendTable.RecId;

                  instance.NodeType           =  PrintMgmtNodeType::VendTable;

              }

              if (instance)

                      instance.update();

              else

                      instance.insert();

              select firstOnly MgmtSettings order by PriorityID where MgmtSettings.ParentId==instance.RecId && MgmtSettings.PriorityID==PriorityIDInt;

              if (MgmtSettings)

              {

                  MgmtSettings.selectForUpdate(true);

              }

              MgmtSettings.ParentId           = instance.RecId;

              MgmtSettings.ReportFormat       = PrintMgmtReportFormat::findByDescription(str2int(DocumentTypeID),ReportFormat).RecId;

              MgmtSettings.PrintJobSettings   = Destination.pack();

              MgmtSettings.NumberOfCopies     = str2int(NumberOfCopies);

              MgmtSettings.PriorityId         = str2Int(PriorityID);

              if (MgmtSettings)

                      MgmtSettings.update();

              else

                      MgmtSettings.insert();

              ttsCommit;

              if(instance && MgmtSettings)

              {

                  info(strFmt("Data record for Line %9: %1, %2, %3, %4, %5, %6, %7, %8", conPeek(record,1), conPeek(record,2), conPeek(record,3), conPeek(record,4), conPeek(record,5), conPeek(record,6), conPeek(record,7), conPeek(record,8), totalRecords));

              }

              else

              {

                  error(strFmt("Data record for Line %9: %1, %2, %3, %4, %5, %6, %7, %8", conPeek(record,1), conPeek(record,2), conPeek(record,3), conPeek(record,4), conPeek(record,5), conPeek(record,6), conPeek(record,7), conPeek(record,8), totalRecords));

              }

          }

      }

      catch(Exception::Error)

      {

          Throw(Exception::Error);

      }

      info(strFmt("Total Read Records = %1",totalRecords));

    }

  • SU-22040800-0 Profile Picture
    SU-22040800-0 2,401 on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    Hi Kim

    I'm new to AX - can you guide me on how to carry out the above instructions?

    Thanks

    James

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Help Creating Print Management Settings via x++

    Would it be possible to add for example the Terms and Conditions in here to be automatically attached along the Report?

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