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Find or create ledger dimension

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Hi All!

I have a requirement for which if some segments of a default dimensions are changed on the line level (for the first line only), I have to copy those segments to the offset account of the header.

When I looked at the LedgerDimensionFacade::serviceCreateLedgerDimension method, it seemed like a possible solution, because,

  • I will extract the main account (MainAccount::findByLedgerDimension) and
  • the default dimension (LedgerDimensionFacade::getDefaultDimensionFromLedgerDimension) from the original OffsetLedgerDimension,
  • copy the segments changed and form a new or find an existing ledger dimension recid.

To test my understanding of the methods

  • I passed one offset ledger dimension (let's say VarA),
  • extracted the main account (VarB) and
  • the default dimension (VarC).
  • then I passed the values of VarB and VarC to the method LedgerDimensionFacade::serviceCreateLedgerDimension

But instead of returning the value equal to VarA, the method returns some other recid.

If you have any information on what am I doing wrong, could you please share it with me...

With best regards,

Abhinay

  • Verified answer
    Abhinay Tharwal Profile Picture
    1,201 on at
    RE: Find of create ledger dimension

    Hi All,

    Thank you for your replies, but the final solution was a bit more than that.

    This is the final solution:

    public static container getLedgerDimDefaultDimMerge(recId _ledgerDimesnions, DimensionDefault _defaultDimensionRecId)
        {
            DimensionHierarchy hierarchy;
            DimensionHierarchyLevel hierarchyLevel;
            DimensionHierarchyId hId;        
            hId = DimensionHierarchy::getAccountStructure(MainAccount::findByMainAccountId(MainAccount::findByLedgerDimension(_ledgerDimesnions).MainAccountId).RecId);
            DimensionStorage dimensionStorage = DimensionStorage::findById(_ledgerDimesnions);
            container conLedgerDim, conDefaultDim;        
            
            container segments = conNull();
            // Get segments
            int segmentCount = dimensionStorage.segmentCountForHierarchy(1);
            String255 segmentName, MainAccount, segmentValue;
            for (int segmentIndex = 1; segmentIndex <= segmentCount; segmentIndex  )
            {
                // Get segment
                DimensionStorageSegment segment = dimensionStorage.getSegmentForHierarchy(1, segmentIndex);
                
                // Get segment name
                hierarchyLevel = DimensionHierarchyLevel::findByDimensionHierarchyAndLevel(hId, segmentIndex);
                segmentName = DimensionAttribute::find(hierarchyLevel.DimensionAttribute).Name;
                
                // Add segment value
                segmentValue = segment.parmDisplayValue();
                if (segmentIndex == 1)
                {
                    MainAccount = segmentValue;
                }
                conLedgerDim  = segmentName;
                conLedgerDim  = segment.parmDisplayValue();            
            }
            
            for (int i = 1; i <= conLen(conLedgerDim); i  = 2)
            {
                Name name = conPeek(conLedgerDim, i);
                DefaultDimensionView defaultDimensionView;
                select defaultDimensionView
                    where defaultDimensionView.DefaultDimension == _defaultDimensionRecId
                            && defaultDimensionView.Name == conPeek(conLedgerDim, i);
                conDefaultDim  = defaultDimensionView.DisplayValue != strMin() ? defaultDimensionView.DisplayValue : conPeek(conLedgerDim, i   1);
            }
            return conDefaultDim;
        }

    and passed the container returned in the above given code to:

    static int64 getLedgerDimFromMainAccAndDefaultDim(MainAccountNum _mainAccountNum, container _conValue)
        {
            container   _conData;
            int hierarchyCount;
            int hierarchyIdx;
            RecId                   dimAttId_MainAccount;
            LedgerRecId            ledgerRecId;
            MainAccount mainAccount;
            RefRecId recordvalue;
            DimensionAttribute     dimensionAttribute;
            DimensionAttributeValue dimensionAttributeValue;
            DimensionSetSegmentName DimensionSet;
            DimensionStorage         dimStorage;
            LedgerAccountContract LedgerAccountContract = new LedgerAccountContract();
            DimensionAttributeValueContract  ValueContract;
            List   valueContracts = new List(Types::Class);
            dimensionAttributeValueCombination dimensionAttributeValueCombination;
            _conData = _conValue;
            mainAccount = MainAccount::findByMainAccountId(_mainAccountNum);
            recordvalue = DimensionHierarchy::getAccountStructure(mainAccount.RecId,Ledger::current());
            hierarchyCount = DimensionHierarchy::getLevelCount(recordvalue);
            DimensionSet = DimensionHierarchyLevel::getDimensionHierarchyLevelNames(recordvalue);
            for(hierarchyIdx = 1; hierarchyIdx<=hierarchyCount; hierarchyIdx  )
            {
                if(hierarchyIdx == 1)
                    continue;
                dimensionAttribute = DimensionAttribute::findByLocalizedName(DimensionSet[hierarchyIdx], false, "en-in");
                if(dimensionAttribute)
                {
                    dimensionAttributeValue = DimensionAttributeValue::findByDimensionAttributeAndValue(dimensionAttribute,conPeek(_conData, hierarchyIdx));
                    if(dimensionAttributeValue)
                    {
                        ValueContract = new DimensionAttributeValueContract();
                        ValueContract.parmName(dimensionAttribute.Name) ;
                        ValueContract.parmValue(dimensionAttributeValue.CachedDisplayValue);
                        valueContracts.addEnd(ValueContract);
                    }
                }
            }
            LedgerAccountContract.parmMainAccount(_mainAccountNum);
            LedgerAccountContract.parmValues(valueContracts);
            dimStorage = DimensionServiceProvider::buildDimensionStorageForLedgerAccount(LedgerAccountContract);
            dimensionAttributeValueCombination = DimensionAttributeValueCombination::find(dimStorage.save());
            ledgerRecId = dimensionAttributeValueCombination.RecId;
            return ledgerRecId;
        }

    Of-course, I am still testing the code for different scenarios.

    With best regards,

    Abhinay

  • Deepak Agarwal Profile Picture
    8,575 on at
    RE: Find of create ledger dimension

    Hi,

    Yes, this method will return a rec id, if you look into the code it's returning a rec id of DimensionAttributeValueCombination. If you want to store the output on a table then you can store the RecId directly but in case you want to use the dim values further try to play around the DimensionAttributeValueCombination table.

  • Suggested answer
    Sankar Ramalingam Profile Picture
    240 on at
    RE: Find of create ledger dimension

    You could apply the below code

    LedgerDimensionFacade::serviceCreateLedgerDimension(LedgerDefaultAccountHelper::getDefaultAccountFromLedgerDimension(VarB), VarC);

  • huijij Profile Picture
    19,811 on at
    RE: Find of create ledger dimension

    Hi Abhinay,

    Please refer to Sukrut's blog to see if it helps:

    community.dynamics.com/.../msdynd365fo-working-with-dimensions-x-code-part-i

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