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Customer lookup form customization AX7

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Posted on by TomC. 80

Hi there,

in AX7 we could use CustomerDataInteractorFactory to search records based on customer name instead of customer account.

However it only allows searching based on "Begins with". How could we customize it to search based on "Contain"? 

Which object(s) should we customize? Thanks.

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    Mea_ 60,286 on at

    Hi TomC. ,

    You need to look at AmbiguousReferenceResolver class PKReferenceQuery and AlternativeReferenceQuery methods. There you will find next line

    filterValue = SysQueryRangeUtil::literalFilterValue(_userEnteredValue) + "*";

    As you can see "begins with" is hard coded there, so you need to extend this method to add new behavior.

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    TomC. 80 on at

    Thanks Ievgen!

    But in my environment AmbiguousReferenceResolver is under package Application Platform and customization is not allowed. Is there any workaround for that? Thanks a lot.

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    Mea_ 60,286 on at

    Customization? We don't do them anymore. I was talking about extension. You may create your own class derived from ambigiousreferensresolver with your own black jack and filtering and extend customerdatainteractor to use it instead of standard.

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    TomC. 80 on at

    We have extended ambigiousreferensresolver class and the corresponding methods (both pkreference & alternative) like below:

    filterValue = "*" + SysQueryRangeUtil::literalFilterValue(_userEnteredValue) + "*";

    Tried to run debugger and system did generate query below while searching by keyword Euro.

    rootQBDS {SELECT AccountNum, ContactPersonId FROM CustTable(CustTable_1) ORDER BY DirPartyTable.Name ASC OUTER JOIN * FROM DirPartyTable(DirPartyTable_1) ON CustTable.Party = DirPartyTable.RecId WHERE ((DirPartyTable(DirPartyTable_1).Name LIKE N'*Euro*'))} Dynamics.AX.Application.QueryBuildDataSource

    But it shows nothing on screen. Is there anywhere else we need to further change? Thanks again.

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    Mea_ 60,286 on at

    So there are 2 parts: lookup and resolve. I told you how to change reolving, so if you type a value and hit "enter" it should pick up customer using *value* patern.  Try and let us know if this work.

    To change how lookup works, look at SysTableLookup class, applyUpdateFilterToLookup method, you will find similar thing that adds * to filter expression.

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