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how to view result of existing methods in computed columns

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Hey there,

I try to get only the result of different methods into a view, that SQL can read. I read about calculated columns and it should do the trick, but I don't exactly know how.

I see that the SysComputedColumn has a lot of possibilities to engineer the calculations yourself, however, we have many calculations added to different tables, and I rather not want to reverse-engineer them.

For example, if I take one of the tables (self-created, so not standard AX) I want to create a view from we have the following method getNetAmount:

display PMENetAmount getNetAmount(PMGCurrDate _curDate = systemDateGet())
{
PMCContractPricesCalcTotals contractPricesCalcTotals;
;

contractPricesCalcTotals = PMCContractPricesCalcTotals::construct();
contractPricesCalcTotals.parmContractId(this.ContractId);
contractPricesCalcTotals.parmReferenceDay(_curDate);
contractPricesCalcTotals.calcContractPriceTotals();

return contractPricesCalcTotals.getNetAmountExclTax();
}

It doesn't even show the calculation yet, but is there a way to show what this function returns, into a string in a computed column? Instead of re-creating the entire method?

Thanks in advance,

Igor

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    RE: how to view result of existing methods in computed columns

    Hi idspmax,

    Simple answer is "No". Computed column should return select statement that then will be used to build SQL view. SysComputedColumn is a helper class that helps you to build a string with SQL statements.

    PMCContractPricesCalcTotals could have complex logic behind to do multiple selects and calculations. Computed column statement is a simple sub select, something like "SELECT AccountNum From CustTable", so you should be able to do all the calculation using SQL.

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